ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Theogony
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Lecture 3: myths about the creation of mankind. According to ovid: first version of the myth is page 5-6. Human beings are closely linked to the divine. Unnamed divine being that put everything into place. Humans are so much more central than the god"s in ovid"s telling. There is no stage time to go into their stories: page 9-19. Giants rise up against the olympian gods. From the giants blood, humans were created with the earth. Equivalent of noah"s flood: flood ends with deucalion and pyrrha. They have to make a new race to populate the world women. They throw stones to create men and. It isn"t very clear cut, and we find out more about humans: creation of womankind (pandora) Zeus made pandora: she was dangerous because she started the race of women. Different gifts from different goddesses to make her.
