Classical Studies 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Agon, Pankration, Chariot Racing
9 Nov 2014
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Lecture 2 september 17th: greek religion follows polythemism and anthropomorphism, titanomachy is the battle between titans and olympians, people that challenged zeus were menoitios, atlas, and prometheus, ancient greek ying/yang are force and deception, picture shows menoitios and atlas being punished by zeus, olympians won the titanomachy, styx an immortal death talks about what would happen if the gods broke their, emphemeral means creatures of the day, there is a discrepancy between male naked men, while women were always oath clothed. Lecture 3 september 24th: will talk about poetic origins of athletics, to understand the greek athletics one must understand the religion of the body, greek cosmos came out of competition, competition is important to the fundamental greek world view, one of the last important thing of the funeral games is the victory of agamennon, the older you are the closer you are too god.
