CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cronus, Protoscience, Pessimism
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Zeus doesn"t swallow his child but his first wife (who was pregnant with athena wisdom), metis = cleverness. Myth and proto-science in account of roman poet ovid. Humans interact with gods through sacrifice (offering of economic produc. Prometheus plays a trick on zeus, during a sacrifice of an ox, by wrapping b (which the greeks considered the best meat). Fire: zeus takes away from mankind, prometheus restores. To punish prometheus, zeus removes fire for humans making life difficult sacrifices anymore) Prometheus steals fire from heaven and gives it back to humans. Prometheus steaked to a pillar and every day zeus would send his eagle to that would always grow back. Created by zeus as a punishment to mankind (to make life more miserable for th. "all-gifts" because each god gave her specific attributes. Hermes - thievish model and "soul of a bitch"
