CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Parthenogenesis, Homeric Hymns, Allegory
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Bronze age 3000bc 1100bc (war in troy) Archaic period 700bc 480bc (persian empire wars with greece and loses, homeric. Logos: a story that can be explained by scientific evaluation. Mythos: a story that cannot be explained by scientific evaluation. Allegorical interpretation: physical (myth of demeter, moral (paris"s de(cid:272)isio(cid:374), historical myths become distorted as they are passed down. Psychoanalytical interpretation: created by freud; myths work as dreams; the human mind is made of the id and the ego. Authored (cid:271)y hesiod; (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:271)irth of gods(cid:863) Gaia and ouranos: ouranos is generated asexually through parthenogenesis; Oura(cid:374)os"s ge(cid:374)itals are (cid:272)ut (cid:271)y chro(cid:374)os"s si(cid:272)kle whi(cid:272)h (cid:272)reates the furies a(cid:374)d. Titans are created by cronos and rhea; cronos fears succession crisis and eats his children; rhea substitutes child zeus with a rock and kills cronos; rock(omphalos) is projected and lands on delphi; 12 olympians come out too.
