CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unified Field Theory, Hemera, Creation Myth

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

During the 8th century the greeks come back with the archaeic revial: the greatest event of this revival is the olympics. Largely this revival is brought about through literature. The greeks began writing down stories about the world that have been around for hundreds of years: 1st story is about hesiod creation myths. Creation myths: hesiod is a book about the creation of the gods, the greeks viewed the world as a combination of binary opposites acting against each other. The constant battle between male and female: in the creation myth book they try to push the idea of matriarchy to the background. Hesiod: the book was written by hesiod. His date of living is uncertain around the latter half of the 8th century. Theogony is a tale about the gods. Cosmogony = explanation origin of the physical world: the greeks theogony tries to explain the unexplainable. Hesiod grew up in boetia close to mt.