CLAS 2520 Lecture 4: Hesiod (Slides w/ Extra Lecture Notes)

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2520
• Professor: Rob Nau

Document Summary

Theogony details the families of the gods and goddesses from the beginning of the cosmos down to the heroic demi-gods. Epic poetry survived from the mycenaean period through the dark ages and re-emerged fully in the archaic period with the recordi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) writte(cid:374) for(cid:373) of ho(cid:373)er"s iliad and the odyssey. 4 basic types of epic: divine and heroic stories about gods and heroes. Both about the trojan war: iliad achilles" a(cid:374)ger, od(cid:455)sse(cid:455) journey home: didactic teaching, communicate learning, epics on farming, astronomy, etc. Works and days: historic celebrate cities and leaders. Metamorphoses (changes, god underwent change, things about dionysus. Verse form is hexameter during the christian period: 6 feet made up of dactyls and spondees. Dactyl long syllable followed by 2 short syllables. Long syllables refer to the length of time a syllable takes to pronounce and it is equivalent in time to two short syllables (one foot / 6)