CLA 2323 Lecture 8: November 9 Lecture

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: David Sacks

Document Summary

Theseus is the poster boy for athens one of two capitals of the greek world. Poster boys: herakles for the spartans spartans claimed to be descended from the brood of sons of herakles, athens had theseus only major athenian hero because athens wasn"t a major. Mycenaean city, it was a second tier power in bronze/mycenaean age, so it doesn"t play huge role in mythology. Athens took this one, old story and pumped it up sparta did this on smaller scale for. Theseus known as second herakles" a lot of his stories particularly the details in the. Need to understand that the theseus myth has one foot in reality influence of athenian propaganda building important. Private theory of prof: originally, theseus was a simple, bellerophon-like story it was later pumped up to more complex story with multiple ups and downs (smart/dumb/smart) Myth can be divided into 10/12 episodes (5 steps step 4 with multiple elements: 1: birth pp.