CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kumarbi, Subplot, Apollo 5
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Cla204 lecture 2: go over theogony and works and days, break, reading response example, theory spotlight. Hesiod: arachic poet he wrote in the 8th/7th century bce. He is one of the first authors to exist. Before we delve into the content, we should be aware of these terminology: theogony = it means a story about the birth of the gods. Theos = god, gony = birth of: cosmogony = it means the birth of the cosmos; the beginning of the universe. Athena (wisdom), arrowy artermis (she uses a bow and arrow) in our culture; superman (the man of steel) dwayne the rock johnson: epic = is a literary genre; a type of poetry. It is written in verse instead of prose not a continuous block of text written in an elevated. It often tells the story of gods and heroes.
