HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Boustrophedon
30 Mar 2016
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Myths were mostly verbalized over many many years then written down. Gods and goddesses have some human characteristics. Legends: stories of the lives of saints or other remarkable people with little regard to historical facts. Divine: stories centred on the gods and goddesses. Folklore: capture imagination, habits, aspirations, and dreams of people. Fables: stories that use animals with human characteristics to deliver a main message or moral. Jokes: stories with a punch line said to provoke laughter and entertainment. Greeks calls themselves hellenes, grakoi, archaeans, or danaans. Greek is indo-european, and there is many different dialects and pronunciations. Greeks believed that knowledge and wisdom was only for men and not for women. Girls were expected to marry young, while their husbands were usually older than them. The greeks wrote semantically and in boustrophedon (ox plow) Aphrodite, hera and athena asked paris to judge on who is the fairest.
