GRS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Charites, Clotho, Moirai

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRS 200
• Professor: Bowman Laurel

Document Summary

Lecture vii: classical mythology in context chapter 3 (continued) Important thing about olympian gods/goddesses is relationship to zeus: hades and poseidon have children, but they aren"t olympians. Zeus is believed to be both married to hera all along, and also married to a bunch of other people and has a lot of children. One version of the order of preliminary marriages: themis. Horae (hours); eunomia (order); dike (justice); eirene (peace); Moerae (fates); clotho, lachesis, and atropos (give men evil and good: eurynome. Persephone (given in marriage to hades, who is now subordinate at zeus"s son-in-law: mnemosyne. 9 muses: leto (a titan) Apollo (most powerful son of zeus, but entirely loyal to his father and never marries), artemis (can"t be tamed, goddess of the hunt, wilderness, childbirth, and young women: hera. Hebe, ares (god of war, but less powerful/intelligent than. Athena and no one likes him), eileithyia, hephaestus (maybe: dione.