CLA204H1 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
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Kronos takes one of his sisters as his wife. Theogony pg150 (line 452) onwards: 6 offspring from the unity kronos and (rhea), bringing the. Two folktale motifs: an individual trying to escape his fate (when life is slated to go a certain way, it is useless to go against the stars -> hesiod"s (cid:449)orks and days, eati(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) Rhea distraught that her brother/husband is swallowing her children and goes to ouranos and. Gaia, asking for advice: advise her to save her last-born son and hide him away on a mountain on crete where he is suckled by a goat amalthea and fed honey from a bee melissa c. Allegory instead of being consumed by kronos, and put in his womb, he is fed a(cid:374)d raised i(cid:374) a (cid:272)a(cid:448)e, (cid:894)gaia"s womb), raised by nature, where his cries are hidden by the cries of cretes. Assimiliation of their zeus with the creten zeus.
