CLA 2323 Final: Greek Final Notes
8 Mar 2016
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Study pictures only from herakles and trojan war. Nov. 26, 2015: phoenicia is today the middle east, zeus wants europa (princess) land. When zeus leaves eruopa, europa marries local king. Minos wants to be the heir and prays to the gold for their approval. Pasiphae, wife of minos,, is given love for the bull by aphrodite. Pasiphae consults daedauls who was very smart, a cultured person, Daedalos constructed labyrinth as a jail for the minotaur. Father bull becomes angry, herakles lets animal free and defeats him (one of his labours: europe takes name. Since bull is divine, bull become the taurus constellation. Europa has dream that she crossed sea/oceans and met personification of. Builds labyrinth as a jail for the minotaur. Labyrinth has only one path and a serpentine pattern whereas a maze has many different directions and only one exit. Sacredness of the labyrinth is to do with following the long, winding path, in order to find god.
