CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Telesterion, The Pomegranate, Metanira
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Greece terrain was very mountainous lived close to coasts good at sailing obsessed with food (grain, grapes, olives) Greek history is 480-323 b. c. this is time of athens and acropolis. Greek myths are from the bronze age 3,000-1,000 b. c. bronze age. -traditional tale (which key characters/events must occur each time the tale is told) -realtionship between myth and literature (people that right down the myths sometimes rebrand it or change the myth) might have some of the elements of the myth but not all. -greek myths have exerted a hold on our imagination sources of myths. -12 major gods live on mount olympus have powers act like humans. -the gods look like us and act like us. -they understand if you do something good for me then ill do something good for you but if you hurt me i will hurt you. -animal sacrifice was the most important for greeks.
