CLASS 2604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Syllabary, Scandinavia, Phoenician Alphabet
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Spends a lot of time describing how he first encounters them, what they do to him, the consequences, and what they teach him to sing. Can"t really trust the muses so we can"t trust what hesiod says to be true. Myth isn"t 100% true and accurate: read introduction by ml west (not mandatory) Small percentage of greeks called themselves philosophers because they like wisdom had objections to myths: by our modern standards, they could have been scientist, 1. No one has ever witnessed it so how do we know: no eyewitness we can trust, bothered philosophers, 2. Scale of events that took place battles of humans and titans or zeus and other monsters: scale for human to be able to witness them would be impossible (very small humans) E. g. like an ant writing a book about this class: 3. Gods act amorally: a primitive prefix removes something, morality a code of conduct, amoral means lack of code of conduct.
