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Classical Mythology 45
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Classical Literature - Course Guide 2
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Classical Drama 9
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Classical Literature - Antigone 5
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Classical Literature - Medea 4
A study of Euripides' tragedy, Medea. A play performed in Athens, based upon the myth of Medea, Jason and the Argonauts and the aftermath of the quest for the Golden Fleece.
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Classical Literature - Aeneid 6
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Life in Classical Greece - Power and Freedom 1
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Life in the Roman World - Power and Freedom videos 1
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Life in the Roman World - Religion & Belief - Introduction 11
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Life in the Roman World - State Religion 8
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Life in the Roman World - Domestic Religion 5
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Life in the Roman World - Mystery Religions 6
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Life in the Roman World - Religious tolerance in the Roman world 3
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Life in the Roman World - Philosophical attitudes to religious beliefs 3
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Life in Classical Greece - Religion & Belief - Introduction 21
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Life in Classical Greece - State Religion 23
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Life in Classical Greece - Mystery Religions 7
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Life in Classical Greece - Domestic Religion 17
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Life in Classical Greece - Gender Roles within Religious Worship 11
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Greek and Roman Views on the After-Life section 1 8
Treatment of the dead
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Greek and Roman Views on the After-Life section 2 13
The mythological Underworld and the attitude of philosophers to the Underworld
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Life in Classical Greece - Death and the Afterlife 11
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Life in Classical Greece - Challengers of traditional beliefs 3
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Source 2 – The Creation – Ovid
Before the sea and the lands existed, and the sky which covers everything, the face of Nature lacked any definite feature throughout its entirety. People have called this ‘Chaos’, a raw and unorganised mass, nothing except unworked bulk, the conflicting seeds of the elements not properly joined, heaped together in the same place.
A god, in other words, a better Nature, settled this dispute. He separated the lands from the sky, and the water from the land, and also parted the clear heavens from the thick lower atmosphere . . .
When the god – whichever one of them it was – had divided the mass in this way and organised into its separate parts, he firstly moulded the land into the shape of a huge ball, so as to be perfectly balanced. Then he ordered the seas to spread themselves out, and to swell up under the rushing winds, and to surround the shores of the encircled earth.
He ordered the rolling countryside to stretch out, valleys to sink down, woods to be covered in foliage and the stony mountains to rise.
He had hardly fenced off everything within strict limits when the stars, which had for long lain hidden under the mass, began to blaze out throughout the heavens. To prevent any region being deprived of its own lifeforms, the heavenly ground was occupied by stars and divine forms, the waters became home to shining fish, the earth held the wild beasts and the restless air received the birds.
Up to this point there was still no nobler living thing, nothing capable of deep thought, which could rule over the rest. Then Man was born. Either that great Craftsman, the source of the improved universe, made him from divine seed, or the newly formed earth, recently separated from the heavenly aether, retained the seeds of its heavenly relation, and Prometheus mixed this with rainwater and moulded it into the likeness of the all-controlling gods.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 1, 5-9, 20-23, 32-37, 43-44, 69-83