CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Symbolic Power, Metic, Origin Myth
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Greeks like to tell myths and legends about. Arachne was a rival athena in weaving -> athena so mad she turned her into a spider. By comparing to superiors, lets you think about own limitations -> help the greeks to define what it is to be human (hardships and sufferings) Gods were similar to and different from humans. Ex:eos (dawn) fell in love with a human man tithonus. Similarities: anthropomorphic -> represent the gods in human shape, human de- sires, motivations and emotions etc (see this in the illiad -> have gods fighting on olym- pus for their fav. Team (invested in human affairs, but do not suffer for them in the same way) and on ground humans fighting in trojan war. Zeus can be human like or the upholder of justice (is literally the father of justice) (in trojan war-> weighed the life of.
