CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Oedipus Complex, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Typhon
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Nb last class: creation of universe + everything before zeus. Eos approaches tithonus, who is holding a lyre. Eos pursues reluctant tithonus: eos asks zeus to make tithonus immortal, but forgets to tell zeus to grant him eternal youth. Once eos sees tithonus" gray hairs, she locks him in a room + never sees him again. He ages and turns into a grasshopper: zeus"s rise to power, the creation of mortals. Zeus 1 of 6 children of rhea + cronus: their offspring: 3 females, 3 males. Zeus is the only god who escapes from being eaten up by his father, cronus. Zeus" infancy in a mountain cave, brought up by nymphs on goat milk and honey, and guarded by curetes, young men (will talk about them again in the class on orphism) The stone displayed in apollo"s shrine, at delphi and called the omphalos ( navel ) 6 siblings = core of the pantheon (the most important gods + goddesses)
