CLAS 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Epithets In Homer, Hekatonkheires, Divine Twins
30 Aug 2016
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Clas 305 greek and roman religion lecture 3. Emerging out of darkness is the mother, from child"s perspective. Tartarus; represents the first eternal / primal loss (symbiosis) Hesiod calls upon the muses, the divine patronesses of the arts, to inspire him. But he wants men to believe he is a divine channeler. Hesiod seems to say that blackness is the first principle- yet many mythic/ religious systems have water and blackness as the precursors to creation. Compare the egyptian version ra- sun god and creator. Oddly homer says water and hesiod contends that blackness was the precondition for creation. Empedocles, the 5th century b. c greek philosopher theorized that all the matter of the universe is composed of 4 primal elements: earth, fire, water, and air. Gaia +uranus= 12 titans, 3 cyclopes, 3 hecatonchires. 3 cyclopes the orb-eyed ones (giants with one huge eye)- the forgers of the thunderbolt. 3 hecatonchires the hundred-handed ones (giants with 100 hands and.
