CLST 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Typhon, Man Man, Xuthus
11 Apr 2017
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Clst 203 exam summaries: week 2: creation/ages of humans. Cosmogony to bring into being of order. Ethical, social, religious patterns in greece/rome relationships: gods, genders and families. Theogony: (7th to 6th c bce) first poet to record systematically the how cosmos, Basic elements: hymns (muses), catalogues (generations of gods), dramatic tales zeus and the olympians (achieve kosmos) Invocation of the muses daughters of zeus and mnemosyne (memory) Hesiod acts as a divine mouthpiece muses tell him he must sing of them before and after out of respect. In the beginning first there was chaos and from chaos gaia (earth), tartarus (below earth), eros (love/force of attraction) From gaia ouranos (sky), ourea (mountains), and pontus (depths of the. Gaia = first deity of earth with hieros gamos with ouranos the first male. From gaia and ouranos titans: oceanus, hyperion, themis, iapetus, coeus, Titans are powerful, emotional, lacking beauty and quick to rage. From only gaia monsters: 3 cyclopses , 3 hekatonchires.
