CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Greco-Persian Wars, Aeschylus, Euripides
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What is a myth: from greek mythos: meaning story plot, authoritative speech act , have collective importance, not just a story, not same as religion; do not have to believe to be a follower. No one version is right : romans take greek myths and. Three types of myths: divine myths. Characters have supernatural forces with tremendous powers beyond that of normal humans. : attempts to explain phenomenon/practice in: legends world. Set in remote past; interwoven with history, but can"t be proved. : local stories; usually involve animal chars (less prevalent: folktale. Archaic period (80-480 bce): actual literature; homer. Hellenistic: greece falls; alexander the great; dramatic: hellas -> greece. Homer: iliad and odyssey, c. 8th century bce, epic poems (long and grandiose in subject) oral poetry. Hesiod: theogony and works and days, roughly contemporary with homer, epic poems; didactic (teaches) Homeric hymns: not written by homer, anonymous authors, earliest c. 7th century bce.
