Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ascended Master, Gray Iron, Theogony

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Basic points: the kosmos is in some sense alive, and all of its features are cosmic (cid:858)(cid:271)ei(cid:374)gs(cid:859) (cid:894)e(cid:454). earth, sk(cid:455), sea, et(cid:272). (cid:895) World started as a cosmically egg: had no concept of infinity so they thought everything was finite. Greeks (cid:862)indeed, very first of all chaos came into being, and then. Chaos: rare word and used very sparingly, various ancient understandings: Stoics (philosophers) = what is poured out (ex. water) b/c greek root word (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)to pour(cid:863) The common modern sense disordered shapeless matter in a cosmological context first attested in lucian (ii a. d. : modern views of chaos. Etymology from cha (cf. chasm: the (cid:858)spa(cid:272)e(cid:859) i(cid:374) whi(cid:272)h (cid:272)reatio(cid:374) takes pla(cid:272)e, the gap between the earth and sky, more plausible the gap between earth and sky and the corresponding gap between earth of tartarus. An abstract account of the separation of the earth and sky. Compare the story of the castration of ouranos told by hesiod later in the theogony.

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