GRS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lightning, Marie Ortal Malka, Theogony

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRS 200
• Professor: Laurel Bowman

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Hera is jealous of the children of these marriages. Marriage is by means of making the children legitimate: metis athena, themis horae, justice, peace, fates, eurynome- graces, dione- aphrodite, demeter- persephone, leto- apollo and artemis. Hera: hephaestus; not powerful enough to challenge zeus, weakest god, ares; god of battle frenzy, bad tempered, no one likes him, ladies like him, elieithyia: goddess of childbirth, hebe: goddess of health. Whole point of theogony is how zeus overcame older generation and how zeus subordinate the children and goddesses so he can keep power. Hera is always challenging, unsuccessful, his power. Zeus: job order in cosmos in various ways. Perso(cid:374)alities of greek gods (cid:448)ary fro(cid:373) telli(cid:374)g(cid:859)s of (cid:373)yths/(cid:272)ity; (cid:374)ot i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ded to (cid:271)e (cid:272)ohere(cid:374)t. Considered poor models for humans; i. e. greatest crime in greek society was to kill/harm father. Various stories are(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:272)ohere(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d sho(cid:449) (cid:448)arious (cid:271)ad roles (cid:271)y the gods that (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e condemned by greek society.