CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mount Helicon, Creation Myth, Erebus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Homer"s) but hesiod"s theogony was the most important. Hesiod is one of earliest writer is roughly the same time as homer. Theogony means the birth of the gods, uses them to explain creation of the world. Homer thought the world was created by two water deities: background issues i) Purpose: a) to explain the origins of the world: praise gods, esp. Greece and the families justified their position of power because they were descendants of gods, hesiod is promoting/reinforcing their reign: account of creation i) Primeval elements the original elements: they were just there, no one knew where they came from (no one god creating the heaven and earth). Chaos is first then after it there was the other three elements but doesn"t mean chaos created the other three elements therefore, there were 4 primeval elements (txb say the 3 things arose from chaos) ii) But then, bedded with heaven, she bore deep-swirling oceanus, koios and kreios and hyperion and.