CLST 203 Lecture 4: January 14
7 Mar 2016
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Hesiod (675 bce) based his concept of universe on near eastern models. Interesting to see one side have sun helios going up, other we have moon selene doing down. In middle story was earth, also mountains acting as pillars supporting the floor of heaving. Vault of the heaven was where olympians were living. Surrounded by the ocean, river around earth, which is shapes like a flat disk. Typhoeus (or typhon), son of gaea and tartaus, who is half snake. Also a monster zeus must defeat for ultimate control. Religious work, including traditions borrowed from mesopotamia and eqypt. Epic poem is a reflection of the sociopolitical system of the poet"s time. The final poem, now lost, was called, the catalogue of women, Very fertile area, was a place where human beings could settle and. He sliced her in half, and half she put in sky, and made a guard to hold it.
