CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Triptolemus, History Of Athens, Beekeeping
19 Apr 2020
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Apollodoros: the biblioth ka = the library, the handbook, the collection. Cheese-making, bee-keeping, and certain other agrarian skills were brought to humanity by the hero aristaeus, son of apollo, who was tutored by the nymphs. Warlike brothers acrisius and proetus invented the soldier"s shield. Mycenae, and argos: obviously in real life, the bronze age greek city of mycenae probably was not founded by perseus but there was such a city. Bronze age (3000-1000 bc: any overlap between hebrew bible and greek mythology is probably significant and not coincidental as greek mythology was influenced by near. Lycia) because he does not want to break the laws of hospitality by killing belerophon himself: proitos sends bellerophon to lycia on a mission, and gives him a tablet/sealed letter saying, Solymoi, then the amazons (women equal of men), then the bravest men of iobates.
