CLT 3370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-10: Roman Mythology, Origin Myth, Aeschylus
23 Dec 2015
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Not in hesiod, who gives no account of origins of men. Titan, but technically he is not the first. Prometheus (means forelearner) is equivalent to folktale character. The trickster who likes to outwit the powerful. He realizes afterward he does something never before, should"ve had a v8! Prometheus, the son of titan iapetus and themis clever inventor. He made men from earth (gaea) and water (divine seed) The other beasts, four-footed, gaze at the earth but man was given a posture with forces his eyes to the heavens, walking erect and lifting his sight to the stars in their courses (ovid) Gifts of prometheus to mankind (civilizing arts) mathematics, astronomy, harnessing, building seafaring, writing, calendar, medicine, prophecy (reading sign and omens), metallurgy. Prometheus offered sacrifice bundles to zeus and asked which zeus preferred. Etiological myth ( a myth that explains something) Prometheus came up with the idea of sacrifice. Humans kill animal get food, gods get smoke and bones.
