CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Typhon, Castration, Comefrom
3 Oct 2013
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Hesiod was the first poet to explain the cosmos, gods and how humans came to be in his. Genealogy of gods (different generations), monsters and human beings. Epithets: aliases (other names or titles before their names) Origin of the world that coincides with other religions. Hesiod begins by singing to the muses of helicon, he is a shepard himself. Muses are the daughters of zeus and mnenosyne (memory) He mentions the muses so that he can possess some validity, that his story is from the gods themselves because as mortals we are stupid and can"t come up with art ourselves. In the beginning there were only 5 elements: Tartarus (nothingness below, essentially a pit of darkness) Gaia (earth) and ouranos (sky) mate and give birth to the 7 titans which are the first gods, along with the titans 3 cyclopes and 3 one-hindred-handers were also given birth.
