GRS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Typhon, Hekatonkheires, Burping

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

Document Summary

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. Zeus tricks kronos into vomiting up his angry brothers and sisters forms alliances with other titans. Then locks kronos and the other titans into tartarus so he can be the leader of the gods. Gaia is now upset because zeus had locked all her children unto tartarus so she teams up with tartarus and creates typhoeus (monster) Zeus defeats typhoeus and confirms his rule of the olympians. He first task was to free the cyclopes ("cies" to us, they were these gigantic, one-eyed towers of power) and the hecatonchires (one. Hundred handed ones, they were giants endowed with 100 hands and.