CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cronus, Lightning, Theogony
25 Aug 2016
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The creation of mortals there is large variety in versions of the creation of humans myth sometimes it is zeus who created humans or zeus with athena or promethus (patron of humanity) etc. Hesiod"s versions from works and days : five ages i. At the very first the immortals who have their homes on olympus made a golden race of mortal humans. They existed at the time when cronus was king in heaven, and they lived as gods with carefree hearts completely without toil or trouble everything was great, didn"t have to work, the ground produced fruit/food (much like. But then the earth covered over this race. Then the earth covered over this race too. And they dwell under the earth and are called blessed by mortals, and although second, nevertheless honor attends them also. iii. When they had been destroyed by their own hands, they went down into the dark house of chill hades without leaving a name.
