CLA204H5 Lecture 3: CLA204 - LECTURE 3
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The schema is called the 5 stages of man: Through the process of degradation zeus is making our existence worse. All the stages are characterized by metal except one. No memory nor myths for religion: humans didn"t have to work to feed themselves. Causes humans to disregard them and to improperly worship them. After their deaths, humans became spirits of the underworld. Humans went to the most blessed place f the afterlife. Bad men lie to be perceived as good. It was pandora"s fault that there was evil in the world (common theme in mythology) Prometheus warns epimetheus to never accept gifts from the gods. Pithos: the last gift to pandora (pandora"s box) Pandora"s box is not actually a box; it"s a vase. Pandora opens the box and all suffering is released upon man kind. The box may be metaphor for the uterus. The endless cycle of samsara (birth death)
