CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Typhon, Polytheism, Museum Of Modern Art
Document Summary
September 20, 2012: salvador dali - realist sculpture. Women as an object to be consumed (moma) Myths developed to give tangible evidence to objects. Zeus and his siblings vs titans for 10 years. Defeat of the titans and imprisonment of them in tartarus. Hundred-handers as their guards (too monstrous to be allowed to remain on the earth) Representative battle: zeus and typhoeus (kind of earth-born dragon-man) Civilization vs savagery; wild nature vs divine order. The creation of mortals and the five ages. No single dominant story about the creation of mankind. Prometheus feels he can match zeus in strength and wits. Division of the ox, with zeus to choose which part he wants. Prometheus hides the meat and innards in the hide, and wrapped the bones in the fat. Zeus saw through a scam, but chose the bones anyway. Zeus is enraged: takes fire away from mortals. Prometheus then steals fire back, hiding it in a fennel stalk.
