GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Omphalos, Typhon, Near East

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 209
• Professor: George Powell

Document Summary

I. 4 notes: zeus triumphant, after a struggle, a battle takes place in which he wins his place at the head of mount olympus, typhoeus = monster zeus must beat in order to gain his place. Great cronus swallowed his children as each one came from the womb to the knees of their holy mother tyrannical father figure: will not be displaced. Internalizing his children to make him forever young with no competition: gaia/ge offers a stone to cronus instead of zeus, trick to deceive cronus to stop his tyranny, this occurs when rhea is pregnant with zeus her. 6th child: stone is made to look like the baby, causes cronus to vomit up all the children he has swallowed. Cronus vomited forth: the grave of the python that was slain by apollo at, titanomachy: Delphi: definition, war against the titans the beginning of the time of the gods. Cor u: struggle and mutiny of one generation to the next.