CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Of Gods And Men (Film), The Olympian, Trojan War
4 Oct 2016
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Siblings and children of zeus: this fits most, but not all of the olympians. Aphrodite: daughter of ouranos (hesiod, daughter of zeus dione (homer, another example hephaestus & dionysus. Hades in the underworld: so not usually considered an olympian because he does not live in. Rationalizations: an attempt to make all of the olympians brothers, sisters or children of zeus (hephaestus & aphrodite don"t fit, an attempt to maintain the number of olympian gods at 12 (dionysus doesn"t fit) Father of gods and men: zeus called this, but in hesiod he has problematic relationship with mortals. Creation of humans: theogony banquet of mekone (mecone) (i. 525 ff. ) Creatures of prometheus: prometheus had created humans and was very interested in them, his desire to make their lives easier gets him into trouble. Theft of fire: because of prometheus" cheating at the sacrifice zeus took away fire from mortals, prometheus stole it back.
