GDES-220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Omphalos, Crius, Coeus

• School: American University
• Department: Art: Graphic Design
• Course: GDES-220
• Professor: Brandon Thompson

Document Summary

*founding of library in alexandria, named mouseion scholars would collect, edit, and translate. Iconography symbols associated with a figure (zeus and poseidon are always bearded) *alexandrians were interested in what kind of truth you can find in myth, some of them. *papyrus from papyrus plant, used for rolled scrolls (many have been found in the sands of. *codex came to be made from vellum, think skin, more stable than papyrus. Story includes all of the gods, in this context all of the gods are a part of the narrative. Cosmogony (birth of universe) and theogony (birth of the gods) Chaos one of the first elements in the theogamy (other elements could be born out of the same time or they are born from chaos). To the ancient greeks chaos meant a gap, yawn, or separation into which come the other elements of the universe.