Lecture 3 Flashcards
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Works and Days
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- invokes muses and features Zeus like The Theogony
- involves Hesiod’s brother Perses
- both of them arguing over inheritance that Perses took and got away with due to bribery
- going to court and bribing lords that like these kinds of cases
2
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Golden Age
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- lived very closely with gods-no hard work or grief
- never aged
- dear to gods
- death came upon them peacefully
- spirits become guardians for next generation
- Kronos ruled
3
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Silver Age
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- aged slowly, were children for 100 years and had short adulthoods
- weren’t as great as Golden
- lack of wits caused violence, too stupid to not hurt each other
- didn’t honor the gods
- go into earth because Zeus forces them because they’re not honoring the gods
- Zeus reigns
4
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Bronze Age
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- made out of ash trees
- all they cared about was fighting and war
- didn’t eat
- terrifically strong
- killed each other off
- make weapons out of bronze
- first humans sent to underworld (Hades)
5
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Age of Heroes
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- called demigods
- died fighting in great wars
- granted life apart from other men (given eternity in Isles of the Blest first mention of a heaven- like afterlife)
- free from care
- just, noble
- feature in many myths
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Iron Age
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- constantly troubled
- pain and vexation sent from gods
- good mixed in with the evil
- nobody gets along with anyone
- take justice into their own hands
- Hesiod lives in this age
- social injustice and the bottom of society is being exploited by the top
- sort of implies that this is as bad as it gets because he says he wishes he could be born after (or before)
- always working to survive
- end of society
- relation to inheritance?
- unfairness of age, unrest among family members, crying out for justice
7
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When does writing in Greek occur?
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-archaic period
8
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Historic Periods and Hesiod’s ages
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- separate though share common names
- separate historical from mythological
- Hesiod lived in historical Archaic period
9
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Historic Peirods
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- Minoan Period
- Mycenaean Period
- Iron Age (aka Dark Age)
- Archaic Period
10
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Hesiod’s Ages of Man
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- Golden Age
- Silver Age
- Bronze Age
- Age of Heroes
- Iron Age
11
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Minoan Period
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- Crete
- sophisticated society
- Linear A
12
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Mycenaean Period
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- Mainland
- Seafaring, militiristic
- Linear B
- Trojan war?
13
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Iron Age
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- decline (population, art, architecture)
- no writing
14
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Archaic Period
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- first works of literature
- Hesiod, Homer, Homeric Hymns
- colonies and poleis (city-states)
- renewed sophistication in art and architecture
15
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The Fall of Man
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- how technology separates us from the gods
- Titans (Kronos and Rhea’s siblings, age before the Olympians so Prometheus and Epimetheus)
- Prometheus steals fire from the gods and gives it to humans
- chained to a mountain and has an eagle eat his liver every day
- trickster archetype
- humans punished with the creation of pandora
