CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Panathenaic Games, Cronus, Castration
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Ancient tale that gets taken up by society and retold through the ages. The arch of the narrative is important not whether the characters existed or not. Myths are timeless because they keep getting taken up and used by society. Lore ofte(cid:374) stays the sa(cid:373)e (cid:271)asi(cid:272)s stay the sa(cid:373)e. Made people fit into a bed by stretching them out or cutting their feet off. Given a taste of own medicine by theseus. Phoenicians wrote the first alphabet around 750 bc. First sung at the panathenaea (athenian festival): c 700 bc. Hesiod"s poems, works and days and theogony (800-700bc) Establishment of the world"s first democracy at athens (510 onwards) Athens was a democracy but not in the terms we know now. United greece, and was known beyond greece as well. Greek myth breaks down to different geographical contexts. Every male citizen was encouraged to vote and city would subsidize them in order to make it possible for them to vote.
