CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Minoan Civilization, Theogony, Inachus
24 Oct 2014
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Most of the time we are dealing with greek myth. There are far more of them, having more detail and being longer than those of romans. The following are greek ideas of creation there was no one accepted view (they varied by person/area). First poet (of which we are aware) to systematically explain the cosmos, gods, and humans came into being: often there are contradictions, even within his own work. Theogony: means the genealogy of the gods . Origin of natural world : how the greeks defined their world says something about themselves. Let us begin to sing of the muses of helicon this is how hesiod starts his writing. This is a classic beginning to ancient poetry. Idea that art does not come from humans, it needs to come from the divine through us. Muses are daughters of zeus and mnemosyne. Out of it comes earth (gaia or ge), tartarus (the underworld), eros (love raw attraction, not relationship love),
