CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mount Helicon, Homeric Hymns, Hekatonkheires
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Verse *dactylic hexameters (syllabic length: or u) Started from mount helicon (where they supposedly lived) According to hesiod, muses on mount helicon told him the stories) Cosmology- reasoning of the why the world works. He pushed back cyclopes and hecatonchires back into gaia. Epithets: cyprian, cyrherean, foam-born, golden, laughter-loving (laughter in greek word pronounced similar to genital in greek word) Pontos + gaia = nereus (old man of the sea) Rhea gave birth to zeus in secret from cronos and gives him a stone wrapped in a cloth as a replacement. Zeus grown up gives cronos a medicine through rhea and makes him vomit all the children. Gaia advises zeus to free the hecatonchires so he does that. Wins over the cyclopes with nectar and ambrosia. Titans are defeated and locked in tartarus with hecatonchires as guards. Gaia encouraged others to make zeus the king. Gods swear by her and face great punishment if broken.
