CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parietal Lobe, Andrew B. Newberg, Marija Gimbutas
7 Mar 2016
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Only tested on what had been covered in class. He saw the iliad and the odyssey as allegories. Gods fighting are representations of natural phenomena and human qualities or dispositions. Was a way to show what happened in real life through the medium of these tales. Anaxagoras: moving from the allegoric interpretation of homer by theagenes affirmed that the. Homeric poems showing the bad behaviour and their results intended to teach virtue. Meaning given to a specific myth some are more trendy in specific periods, others are more forgotten. Euripides: thought it was funny that dionysus was sewn in thigh of zeus (meron) Dionysus was a hostage, sometimes hermes took him. Hera to semele to ask zeus to show her all his splendor. Socrates (470-399 bce), and plato (429?-347 bce), both criticized the poor moral of olympian gods, plato wanted to ban homeric poems.
