FYSM 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trojan War, Iliad, Oceanus

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Homer is the earliest greek we know of (730 bc) Hesiod is the later generation (700 bc) The iliad by homer covers the trojan war between the greeks (achilles) and trojans (hector) The odyssey covers after the war of troy. Believed that the sky or part of the sky was made of mental. Distance between the sky, earth, hades, and tartaros. The sky and tartaros are both the same distance from the earth. Tartaros is the farthest distance below the earth as it can be. Hades (the underworld) is just below to surface of the earth: hades is the same distance to tartaros as the earth is to the sky. Tartaros is a prison for rebellious gods/goddesses at the bottom of the universe: hades is for the souls of the humans. Homer is the only one that mentions the gates of tartaros. Hesiod mentions throat meaning the gods are swallowed up by tartaros no gates just fences.

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