CLA204 Lecture 1 Notes What is myth? - mûthos (ancient Greek) – “story”‚ “plot” of a narrative - myth – “a traditional story of collective (social) importance” – character‚ plot‚ temporal and special setting - mûthos (story) + logos (account) = “study of myth”‚ mythology - set in distant past or time so long ago when humans did not exist - mythical place – ie. garden paradise‚ world of the dead‚ etc. Circulation of Myth: oral (Orpheus‚ Homer‚ Hesiod) literary (Ovid‚ Euripides) artistic
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Humanities 101 Midterm Review Weeks 1 and 2 Mesopotamia: Sumerians‚ Akkadian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian Euphrates River Tigris River Fertile Crescent Uruk Cuneiform: wedge or nail shape marks pressed into wet clay –used for over 3000 years Sumerians 3500-2350 Located in lower Mesopotamia Between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Part of the Fertile Crescent Invented writing and beer (Kassi) Purpose? Records of goods and services 2700 BCE: rough date assigned the historical Gilgsmesh‚ King
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12 Literary piece that have Influenced the World 1. The Bible or the Sacred writings: This has become the basis of Christianity originating from Palestine and Greece 2. Koran: The Muslim bible originating from Arabia 3. The Iliad and the Odyssey: These have been the source of Myths and Legends of Greece. They were written by Homer. 4. The Mahabharata: The Longest epic of the world. It contains the history of religion in India. 5. Canterburry: it depicts the religion and customs of
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the Roman deities is that there is no Theogony to document their interconnections. To refresh your memory‚ Theogony is a poem written by the Greek poet Hesiod in the mid-seventh century BCE in which he methodically lists the Greek gods and goddesses‚ their parents‚ their descendants‚ their role in the cosmos and‚ most importantly‚ their true names and pseudonyms. Sadly‚ our knowledge of the ancient Roman religion does not include a definitive text such as Theogony to delineate their gods and goddesses
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest known literary works. This Babylonian epic poem arises from stories in the Sumerian language. Although the Sumerian stories are older (probably dating to at least 2100 B.C.)‚ it was probably composed around 1900 BC. The epic deals with themes of heroism‚ friendship‚ loss‚ and the quest for eternal life. Different historical periods are reflected in literature. National and tribal sagas‚ accounts of the origin of the world and of customs‚ and myths which
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versus Cosmology A Comparison of Creation in Hesiod’s Theogony and Ovid’s Metamorphoses By Catherine Franklin To fully understand the poems; Metamorphoses and Theogony‚ one needs to understand more about the writers. Hesiod was a greek poet‚ who lived around 700BC‚ and was inspired by muses to write epic poetry. Theogony is considered one of earliest works and concerns itself with the cosmogony‚ or the origins of the world and theogony‚ or the gods‚ and pays specific detail to genealogy (West
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overthrown by his child‚ he decides to swallow his children with Rhea(Hesiod Theogony 467). Once again Rhea doesn’t have the power to stop her husband and relies on her son to go against his father. Rhea enacts a plan to fool Kronos into swallowing a stone instead of their son Zeus(Hesiod Theogony 486). Later on‚ once Zeus is grown‚ he confronts his father with the help of Rhea and Gaia to free his siblings(Hesiod Theogony 497). Zeus also assumes power and becomes the king of the gods even though it
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The portrayal of Zeus in Hesiod’s Theogony is very similar to his portrayal in Prometheus Bound in the way Zeus acts and reacts. The portrayals are different because the perceptions of Zeus have changed. The portrayal of Zeus in Hesiod’s Theogony is very‚ very favorable. " the whole poem can be read as an elaboration of the greatness of this god." (ACM 130) Prometheus Bound is written in a way that the reader can’t help but dislike Zeus. Theogony describes different aspects of Zeus’ personality;
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Origins in Science and Religion Letters and Science 121 T-Th 2:00-3:30‚ 2040 VLSB Spring 2013 This course explores the concepts of origins in science and religion and their cultural contexts and entanglements‚ from antiquity to the present. Popular culture tends to emphasize the conflict between science and religion on such issues‚ particularly‚ in recent times‚ with respect to the origin of life and its evolution (including human evolution). We hold that science must acknowledge history‚ both
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important man in Greek History and his early writings showcase his abilities. Theogony by Hesiod gives a Greek version of the creation of the universe. In this book‚ Hesiod describes how the entire universe was created from the Deathless Creature‚ Gaia. But he described that before Gaia came‚ the only thing that was in existence was Chaos. “In truth at first Chaos came to be” (Hesiod‚ Theogony 116). According to Theogony‚ Chaos suddenly rose out of nothing. Hesiod talks about how me might have been
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