CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Creation Myth, Polytheism, Sarpedon
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Note in particular the violence with which each generation overthrows the generation before. How do the gods and human s differ: in relation to gods, the humans are inferior, greeks loved myths about humans with great skill that would rival the gods, ex. Athena and arachne arachne was a great mortal weaver who bragged that her weaving rivaled that of athena s. Taking offense, athena challenged arachne to a contest, which arachne won by depicting the love transgrissions of the gods in her tapestry. In a fit of rage athena turned arachne into a spider: ex. Eos, a goddess, asks zeus for eternal life for her lover the mortal tithonus. Gods: eat nectar and ambrosia: powerful in a category (ex. The succession myth: sucession of power between generations through conflict, bloody crisis, the very beginning: chaos (chasm, empty disorder, gaia/ge (earth, tartara (underworld, eros (love, basic family saga through three generations.