CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cronus, Uranus (Mythology), Theogony
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Hesiod"s theogony the castration of ouranos (theog. Carefully read the selected passage from the assigned reading and type your answer in the space provided. She said this, but fear seized them all and none of them spoke. He spoke and vast earth was greatly pleased in her mind. She placed and hid him in ambush, and put in his hands. A sickle with jagged teeth, and revealed the whole trick. O(cid:373)e of the (cid:862)u(cid:374)see(cid:373)ly deeds(cid:863) that are spoken in this epic is be portrayed by ouranos himself, these deeds are his desires of forcing himself on gaia. As ouranos is the sky and gaia being the earth, the sky is al(cid:449)ays o(cid:374) (cid:862)top(cid:863) of earth as talked about in lecture, meaning the deeds he committed were wrong and almost can be said as ungodly. The way ouranos is presented in this epic gives us the idea of him being a wicked and cruel.