GRS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Typhon, Lightning, Creation Myth

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

Document Summary

Gaia ouranos (heavens) -> titans (kronos, rhea), cyclops, hundred-handed ones. Kronos castrates his father, frees his brother and sister. Ouranos phallius aphrodite (foam mixed with seawater), furies and giants (blood falling on the earth) Kronos rhea -> hestia (the hearth), demeter (, hera (marriage and fertility), poseidon (the sea), hades (the underworld) and zeus (the sky) O(cid:374)(cid:272)e kro(cid:374)os" (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) are (cid:271)or(cid:374) a(cid:374)d prese(cid:374)ted to hi(cid:373), he eats the(cid:373) since they are gods it does(cid:374)"t kill the(cid:373), it si(cid:373)ply pisses the(cid:373) off. When zeus is born, instead of giving him the baby she presents him a rock wrapped in a blanket which he eats instead. Greek tradition needed a male dominated household, which would be passed on to the next male in the family. Core lie they were afraid women would tell, is that the child the present to their hus(cid:271)a(cid:374)d was(cid:374)"t a(cid:272)tually theirs. Zeus tricks kronos into vomiting up his angry brothers and sisters forms alliances with other titans.