CLASSIC 10A Lecture 9: Classics Lecture 9
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By tuesday, september 9: homeric hymns, lyric, spartan constitution. By thursday, october 1: athenian constitution, forrest. Hesiod from boeotia (ascra), meets muses on mt. 8th c. bc, oral tradition, personal information only from his poems. Oldest and most important source for greek ideas about the origin of the world. Theogony=creation of the gods: short, inelegant, archaic, explains the present order (rule of zeus, a hymn to zeus. Series of family trees: families of the titan gods. Introduction: preface: hymn to muses (homeric hymns were performed as prefaces to other epic performances, muses perform a song about the gods, muses met hesiod on mt. Themes: creation of the physical world/cosmos (cosmology, creation of the gods (theogony, creation of abstract concepts, creation of monsters, creation of the human condition (not of humans) Children: nyx (night), erebos (darkness: gaia (earth) Children: ouranos (sky), pontos (sea), ourea (mountains: tartaros (underworld, eros (desire)
