CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Homeric Hymns, Kyrios, Theogony
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Advice about farming (when to farm, seasons, season appropriate farming) Moral behaviour, how to live a productive life, how to work hard and succeed. Perses and hesiod receive family inheritance, and according to hesiod, perses used his up in foolish ways and now wants hessiods money. Hesiod believes court was bribed into perses favour. Supposed to be beautiful/tempting but not a good person. Sent to epimetheus (brother of prometheus) as bride. After living w/ humans she releases evils from jar except hope. Zeus creates evil to offset good in form of pandora. Evil is released by pandora but was still from zeus. Aetiological myth - origin story/why things are the way they are. Dedicated to the praise of a god, offering to a god. Attributes, domains, key features, myths + ways of worship. Patrilineal - family and inheritance through fathers side. Zeus + hades made an agreement/engue without persephone. Aetiological myth explains how features of contemporary world came to be.
