CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gaea Trilogy, Coeus, Oceanus
22 Sep 2016
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Clst 102 lecture 5 sept 21. They are not external to this world, and they did not make it. Their most important difference from humans is immortality. Gods were not all powerful, they had limitations. : zeus wants trojans to win, but he knows that"s not possible. Each major god has a personality and is active in many different spheres. Gods are not necessarily good" and pursue their own interest like humans. They didn"t have to be located in the sky. Hesiod, theogony, v. 116: verily at the first chaos (void) came to be. 126 ff: she [gaia = earth] lay with ouranos (sky) and bare deep-swirling, Okeanos, koios and krios and hyperion and iapetos, theia and rhea, themis and mnemosyne and gold-crowned phoibe and lovely tethys. After them was born kronos (time) the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire. the sons of gaia and ouranos were called.
