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CLASS 102 Homer- c.750 BC Hesoid - c.680 BC Xenophanes of Colophon - 6th c. BC Theagenes of Rheqium fl.c.525. Allegory Plato- c.427-348 MyThos- logos God’s behave less than the human expect them to Aristotle - Student of Plato Phalaephatus - tauros

Euliemerus - c.300 BC. Sacred History Panchaea - made up by someone Gregony Nagy

Interpretation of myth will be on the midterm -scientific models reflect how we now think of the world - Giambattista Vico 1668-1744 Scienza nova MYTH Myth has its place Myth had great insight into human origins Myth was inspired by a sense of awe in the sense to natural phenomenon Mind of a child would never be so dull. Something child like that invents myth Avenue of insight into the human mind. C.G. Heyne 1729-1812 - Much younger contemporary than Vico - Conjuate from the 17th century into the 19th - Reflection of classical studies - Search of origins - Fabula - Mythus

J.G. Herder 1744-1803 - Independence of myth and language - He downplays - Language is compelled by the need to express a religious view Max MUller - Indo- European languages - Aryan what it was called before - Pater, Piter - Talking about Solar Myth in one way or another

Cronos = Rheia Proved manliness by making babies The gods are fertile, they never have sex without having children. Swallows the females as well as the males. Neutralizing the danger. Cronos swallows Rheia’s children - Rehia does not like to see this situation - Gives him a stone - Gets advice from gaya and ? - Corybantes - companions of Zeus - Clashing spears around Rheia so that the cries are hidden - She can only hide for so long till Cronos finds her - Centre of the heaven cronos pukes up the stone so it ends up in the centre of the world. - You know its the centre of the world if you see the stone. - Belly button - Omphalos - Delphi - oracle of apollo - Thessaly - Othrys - Make weapons for zeus - Released by zeus - tips the balance of the battle with the spartans - Zeus and his army are successful - Spartans are imprisoned - gods cannot die but they can be overpowered - Giants are born from gaya - Gaya establishes ___ as new kings but also challenges them - Perpetual conflict between the earth and the sky (gaya earth goddess vs whoever is the ruler of the sky)

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Even though she helped put zeus there she tries to overthrow him Brings forth one last enemy to challenge zeus - Typhon or Typhoeus Typhon has 100 heads Chaos - hell just noise, Typhon is emblematic of Chaos. In heaven there is music and silence Incest? Hecate, Hekaton, hekati - when anyone ever sacrifices to the gods, she also gets a cut Zeus gives her this power. She can adjust the will of all even zeus. Zeus made it all this way. Zeus impregnates her. Zeus swallows someone?, when you swallow someone you get all their qualities and then that means he was preggo and gave birth to athena

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Story of mankind is a story of decline Age of Heroes - for a brief time things stop getting worse it gets better. Primitivism - view that everything was so much better Prometheus Pandora- making charms and she gets gift but she is a gift to all men Epimetheus - Pandora is to be married off to him Wives come with dowry’s, Pandora is no exception Her dowry was a jar with a lid on top of it Condition don’t take the lid off All the troubles in the world when the lid is open comes out Women is the lesser of two evils, if without no one to bare children and your belongings is given to random strangers Themis = Gaia Zeus is gonna punish Prometheus. A crow will rip out his liver every day (Grows back each night) Prometheus knows who his successor is why he gets punished Prometheus knows because he has prophetic knowledge

Figure of Zeus - Zeus is not a nice guy - Cratos and Vios? - Tyrant - Strength and Violence - Disregarding proper sexual arrangements - Zeus rapes IO but turns her into a cow to not allow hira to notice -...