HUM 2020 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - God, Age Of Enlightenment, Venus
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Areas of early civilization: nile, egypt 2. Homeopathic: power infused based on likeness or imitation. Stone age arts: lascaux cave: art for sympathetic magic; control of the animals for the hunt, venus figurine: sympathetic and contagious magic for fertility of nature and humans. Stone age architecture: megalithic: massive stone structures. Ingredients of civilized society: agriculture (irrigation) and breeding of animals = surplus food, cities: large permanent settlements = standard architecture and surplus manpower, writing ( gifts of the gods ) = records, history, institutions for centralized and inherited power. Kingship for centralized political and social structure (pharaoh = kings in egypt) Literature: mythic history: definition of myth = story form (poetry) vs philosophical or scientific explanation; typically involving gods and ancestors with supernatural power to explain the origin or cause of. Ovid, metamorphoses (greek, handout: origins of humans: sacred clay (wise and rulers), blood of titans (murderous and criminal), and stones (endurance)
