CLST 2090 : Exam 2
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Exam 2: hermes god of good luck and the god of businessmen and thieves, gave pandora the character of a thief and the mind of a bitch; but he is more complicated. Hit showrooms, it was ugly, lost a fortune the ford edsel. Hermes had not blessed the venture, so no good luck: late 50"s university students frequent a store selling meat pies in aluminum pans, which the students would throw back in forth. Two young men saw their popularity, borrowed from their fathers and, with no knowledge and no experience, invented the frisbee. According to the greeks, their venture had been blessed by hermes: also the god of the practical joke. This is a form of power the greeks didn"t understand when something happened over which they could not stop laughing. You have no control, humor takes you over.
