CLASSICS 2E03 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Ancient Greece, Euripides, Troy

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CLASSICS 2E03
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
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Origin and Nature, Humanity and technology
2001: tech, violence, and human nature
Barly surviving ancestor
Long shot of the sunsets gives info on static mode of existence and state of nature
Human origins: "no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all continued fear, and
danger of violent death: and the life of man, solidarity, poor, nasty brutish and short"
Innovation for survival and betterment- and destruction
Used the tool (bone) for hunting and then warfare, genius for tech is not shown for good, capacity
for violence
Move for tech moves worsening in our condition (monkeys were bad in the beginning and worse
after found the bone)
Technology and the ascent or descent of humankind?
The Jupiter mission was sparked by monalist and so was the finding of the bone by the moneys
Tech started by this monolist
The humans only talked when concerned for themselves
The guy kept walking around, showing monogamous existence
No talking to keep our attention on ethical content
A vision of the world of the future: absence of bonds of affection and fellowship?
Dave was too calm about Franks death
Dave is closer to HOW then dave is
Dave shows more emotion to HOW than Dave
HOW is ruthless machine but also like humans. Made in our own image?
HAL: made in the image of humankind?
The way Dave put down HOW was interesting. Like HAL like a kid
Humanity's genius for violence
Hesiod and Greek epic
Archaic period: c 750BCE- 480 BCE. Rise of Greek city state
Works of days and theogany (birth of Gods): c. 700 BCE
Older than the Thiad and Oddyssy- at any rate, some of the oldest works of ancient Greek
Hestoid presents himself as a farmer and bard from Bocotio
Aeschylus and greek tragedy
Classical period: 480 BCE-323 BCE. The period which we see the floruit of Greek intellectual
culture (tragedy, comedy, historiography, medicine, philosophy). Also, the heyday of democratic
Athens
Prometheus bound: mid to mid-to-late 400s BCE
Athenian, fought in the Persian wars at the battle of Salamis, 480 BCE
Oldest of the 3 canonical Athenian tragedians (Sophocles, Euripides)
Two kinds of Eris (trouble)
Eris: strife, discord, trouble contention, quarrel
Put hims in the roots of the earth
A deep seated motivation a drive towards both virtues and vicious behaviors (envy as a stimulus
to bettering ones circumstances )
The ages of man
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Overall a decent, a move away from the company of the gods: Gold, silver, bronze, the age of
hero's, iron
Gold a life without sorrow, pain or toil; beloved by the gods, in afterlife wander the earth as
guardians of humankind and arbiters of justice
Silver: an extended childhood; out of foolishness fight one another; lack of respect for the gods and
ritual
Bronze: wholly warlike, no need for sustenance, abundance of technology (bronze and iron);
destroyed themselves and died nameless
Hero's: those who fought at Troy and Thebes, the times of Odysseus, Achillies and Oedipus; enjoy
immortality on the islands of the blessed
Iron: Hesiods present
Humans as "mere stomachs" "men who live on bread" (this is how the muses describe them)
More like animals then humans
Following impulse
Gods live without worry about food and bread unlike humans
Gods just need the smell of the food that is burnt
Human condition defined in terms of our mortality
Prometheus and Pandora in Hesiod
Prometheus as fire and foremost a trickster god, who end up giving man the technological means
for civilization
The Prometheus myth as an account of Greek ritual practice (alter)
Prometheus (forethought: intelligence) and Epimethus: (Afterthought; stupidity)
Womankind as punishment for Prometheus deception (Pandora fashioned as a deceiving gift, a
"beautiful evil" [kalon kakon]
Only hope remains in Pandora's jar
If the jar was filled with evil then why was hope in it?
A good thing can be bad if it is out of reach
The need for hope implies that there is something bad (so you need hope)
Prometheus in Aeschylus
Prometheus as the benefactor of humanity, an almost self-sacrificing figure
Hubris (arrogance: act of transgression) and divine punishment and retribution (Nemis) the hubris
of Prometheus and the Tyranny of Zeus (Zeus characterized by the way of literary tropes of
Tyranny)
The anger, even spitefulness, of the Gods
The Gods and the fortunes of humankind: the God not wholly the defenders or benefactors of
humanity
- Is Prometheus' punishment justified?
- Zeus is presented as a Tyrant (fight with family, struggle for control)
[QUOTE]- Hear istead aout the iserale oditio of akid…….
- Technology is something that frees us from turmoil
The battle of the Gods
The problem of succession (Ouranos, Cronos, Zeus) - Metis and the birth of Athena
Battle with the titans (Titanomachy)- the overthrow of the previous generation
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2001: tech, violence, and human nature: barly surviving ancestor, human origins: "no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all continued fear, and. Long shot of the sunsets gives info on static mode of existence and state of nature danger of violent death: and the life of man, solidarity, poor, nasty brutish and short" Made in our own image: hal: made in the image of humankind, the way dave put down how was interesting. Like hal like a kid: humanity"s genius for violence. Hesiod and greek epic: archaic period: c 750bce- 480 bce. Aeschylus and greek tragedy: classical period: 480 bce-323 bce. The period which we see the floruit of greek intellectual culture (tragedy, comedy, historiography, medicine, philosophy). Athens: prometheus bound: mid to mid-to-late 400s bce, athenian, fought in the persian wars at the battle of salamis, 480 bce, oldest of the 3 canonical athenian tragedians (sophocles, euripides)

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