CLSC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Starry Sky, Theogony, Anthropomorphism
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As a species we started asking ourselves questions when he became conscious. How are things the way they are in the universe. Is there any meaning to the universe: if there is, how do we deal with it? (bc we want to control it) Our myths and legends try to answer these questions. Aristarchus: one who knew a lot of things, his works have not survived, only fragments, one of this works- His earth is a globe, suspended in space that orbits the sun. Hesiod: farmer, literate, wrote poetry, theogony. Birth of the universe: he could not step out of his own time to write this. Hesiod"s four primal entities: chaos- he said in the beginning there was chaos. We want to control it but we have a difficult time doing so. Definitions of chaos: gaping jaws, yawn, unformed stuff/matter. Gaea, tartorus, eros (came from chaos: gaea. Uranus, mountains, pontus (from gaea: uranus.
