ENGL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pediment, Lightning, Gorgon
31 May 2016
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Zeus got help from metis (goddess of wisdom), she gave him poison to give to chronos. He drank the poison and he threw up all the children. Hestia was born first and threw up last. Sometimes referred to as the first and last born of the olympians. This would lead to a battle to overthrow chronos. The titanomachy, and the war with the titans. The titans are imprisoned in tartarus, and kept there by the hecatonchires olympians won. Atlas, not sent to tartarus, he is sent to spend eternity holding up the vault of the sky. Leads to the gigantomachy, zeus defeats the giants (the altar of pergamon, gods against. Giants are strong as long as they are in contact with the earth (gaia), once they lose contact, they become very weak. Every time he yells or screams, there is an eruption (eruptions are caused by the anger of the.
