CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aphrodite Urania, Aphrodite Pandemos, Cronus
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Hesiod = it became the go-to / standard account for the creation myth (chaos develop into the world we know today) Though ovid"s version is the most famous roman version. Greeks didn"t dwell that much on the idea of creation as much as other cultures. Mostly focused on heracles and trojan war. Theogony: the birth of the gods. (theoi = gods; gony = birth) Cosmogony: the birth of the universe (the cosmos) Gods = they are the earth + elements + etc. For the greek mindset they are one and the same. Olympus (home of the gods) > vault of heaven > earth > hades > tartarus. How do we get to the current state of affairs in olympus. Protogenoi = first born --- first entities to be created. Chaos -- no order, mess ---- void, absence of any entity or any gods, gaping opening, out of which everything comes out. (gaea + tartarus +
