CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Herodorus, Euhemerus, Palaephatus
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Xenophanes gods don"t behave like human beings (homer, hesiod) gods shouldn"t look like us unless we created them. Hercules movie 2014 very human hercules: rationalization of the labors and loss, explored identity and reputation through the figure of the myth"s greatest hero. Monographs on individual mythical figures or groups. The myths are rationalized (57: golden dish) and allegorized (hercules learns about astronomy); contradictions in the tradition are solved through the formulation of homonyms (multiple hercules, orpheus). In this way herodotus stands on the threshold of later mythography that was to break free from tradition more strongly. Interpreting the story literally and also a second meaning that isn"t apparent in the real meaning telling two stories as you are telling one (allegory) Herodorus on heracles 13 p. 121 what you may have heard is actually heracles finding out astronomy from the east, learns astronomy from atlas.
