CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Drawing Straws, Lady Justice, Phidias

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

Document Summary

He wants to hold onto his powers: these children were the olympians, he ate the first 5 children and that upset rhea so she tricked cronus. E: omphalos the stone that was substituted for zeus delphi. Titanomachy titan battle machy meaning battle: he was helped by the themis (justitia) and prometheus, zeus grows up and challenges his father for power. Those who opposed zeus were put there: atlas doomed to hold up creation and not the earth, they are the third generation, the stuff which consist of the sky, the ground were not born and were not. Physical entities, then there was the titans which were monster like not human. Finally there were the olympians who took human ( zeus is not god of the sky but he"s the god who lives in the sky and rules it) 3 male gods divided up the world ( hades who became god of the underworld,