HUM 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interpersonal Relationship, Aegisthus, Odysseus
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Lecture: deinition of humanities, study of human values and evaluation, qualitative, not quantitative. Active reading steps: identify the type of text that is being read, genre, type of literary work, if you don"t know the type of text you are reading, you won"t be able to interpret the text properly. Odyssey: not a novel, is actually an epic, a long narrative poem designed to embody the values of a civilization (1) constant efects to create intensity (a) Odysseus to come home, has negative feelings towards him) (a) (i) (b) Sun is mentioned seems unusual because we can see the sun, and usually the divine are personiied characters that we have no physical contact with can be friends with some gods, and enemies with others (athena=friend, Poseidon=enemy/sabotager) (i) gods ight among each other (a) have diferent perspectives (b) personal character traits (ii) close interpersonal relationship b/w gods and humans.
