GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Oceanid, Civil Religion, Castration

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 209
• Professor: Amber Porter

Document Summary

Hesiod: 8th century bce (c. 700 bce, theogony (cid:862)origi(cid:374) of the gods(cid:863, a (cid:272)os(cid:373)ogo(cid:374)y (cid:894)(cid:862)origi(cid:374) of the (cid:449)orld(cid:863)(cid:895, poetry dedicated to the muses daughters of the zeus. From chaos, erebus [the gloom of tartarus] and black night came into being; but from night were born aether [the upper atmosphere] and day, whom. Night bore when she became pregnant after mingling in love with erebus. I(cid:374) the (cid:271)egi(cid:374)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g : chaos, gaia (ge) the earth, tartarus reference to the beginning of the underworld, eros love (lust, gaia (cid:271)ore ura(cid:374)us (cid:894)(cid:862)sky(cid:863)(cid:895) Gaia (ge: mother earth, fertility goddesses, sky god/earth goddess, hieros gamos holy union. The titans: oceanus, coesus, crius, hyperion, lapetus, theia, rhea, themis, mnemosyne, phoebe, tethys, cronus. Descendants of the titans: oceanids, leto, helius, selene. Gaia (the earth) was suffering, because she was holding in the children in her. Gaia gives cronus who stepped up a sickle made of. Throws his testicles into the sea: sickle.