CLA204H5 Lecture 2: Etiological/pandora/creation
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Etiological/creation/pandora, gender, & sexuality: hesiod, apollodorus, theogony. Theo: god, gony: gone: cosmogony, axis mundi, marcea eliade. His father was an immigrant to greece(?) Had a dispute with his brother over inheritance. Composed oral vs written / it cannot be said whether he wrote down his work or if. 1) ex nihilo diety creates cosmos out of means. 2) diver god sending down divine animal/bird to bring up something. 3) immergence gradual process / human like species must travel through many universes before this one. 4) dismemberment [earth] made from someone"s body parts, which have been taken apart. 5) breaking up original unity broken into segments. Theogony contains primarily breaking up (but others as well) One of the most important texts from ancient world the one that survived . Composed in meter (poem) & considered an epic. Epic = grand scale, in this case about the universe. Talks about the birth of gods, organization, & succession of gods.
