CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cronus, Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Homeric Hymns

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Lecture # 5 zeus and the olympians. Olympus was a distant an accessible place where the greek thought the. When the romans took over the greeks they also copied their system of the. The greeks name for their gods followed by the romans names for these. Gods: aphrodite (venus, apollo, ares (mars, artemis (diana, athena (minerva, demeter (ceres, dionysus (bacchus, hephaestus (vulcan, hera (juno, hermes (mercury, poseidon (neptune, zeus (jupiter, hades (pluto, hestia (vesta) Zeus, poseidon, hades: the three original gods formed a powerful trinity on mt. Heiros gamos the union of zeus and hera is an example of this. Cronus and rhea is another example: represents sacred union of marriage, the typical portrayal of zeus is to be powerful and strong, this is why he is represented by a very powerful animal such as the eagle. Hera: zeus and hera were of equal power. Heras face in some way is the statue of libertys face.