CLA 3380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Giorgio Vasari, Rigveda, Franz Bopp
17 Feb 2017
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Cf. kosmein = to order, arrange, prepare, adorn, embellish. Cf. meiresthai, merizein = to divide, to allot; meros = share, portion. The castration of uranus: fresco by giorgio vasari and gherardi christofano (c. 1560) Saturn devouring his son (1819) by francisco goya. Wisdom, an idea, hades, a druid, and the vedas. All are derived from the indo-european root *wid- (vid), seeing, knowledge. 1786 sir william jones begins lecturing on similarities of sanskrit, persian, Atum osiris seth horus. Apsu/tiamat an anu ea enlil marduk. Eliun sky/earth el ball. Alalu anu kumarbi weather god (teshub) Chaos gaia/ouranos kronos zeus. Ginnungagap ymir buri bor/bestla odin. Some major epithets of zeus (greek words) Punishment: tied to pole at end of the earth; liver regenerates everyday, crow comes and eats liver every day. Hesiod tells you what he did wrong after he describes the punishment. Mekone was trying to deceive zeus; motive never explained. For when gods and men were settling accounts" .
