CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Hesione
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Classics 210: greek & roman classics in english. Book one: creation historical progression from chaos to order. History of how it was: why do we suffer, why do we die, ducalion and pyrrha repopulate earth by throwing the bones of their mother behind their backs. Consulted the oracle but decides to throw the stones of earth (i. e. mother) Transformation into a cow (io treated like an animal/property and that aspect of her becomes externalized in the form of a cow: ages of mankind why world continues to devolve morally. Kings less and less effective, which led to the fall of the empire: lycaon flood: jupiter cannot tolerate world anymore and decides to, apollo struck with an arrow to fall in love with daphne who rejects him. He remake it through a great flood turns her into a laurel tree. He kills cornonis with an arrow: punishes raven from white bird to a black bird.
