HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Theogony, Hexameter
1 Oct 2016
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Theogony: theogony theos + gonos = theogoneia, theogony was written in a metre: dactylic hexameter (6 foot line, we are in the archaic period (800-480 bce, this is not a religious or sacred text. Athens is named after her: divine epithets, each god has his or her own epithets. Gray eyed athena arrow shooting artemis aphrodite of the uttering eyelids : god separate themselves from humans. Humans need to eat while the gods do not so thats why they call them potbellies : associate the muses with pleasure, muses have a mother named memory" the muses are born from memory. Monday, september 19, 2016: masculine and feminine in humans means something different from famine and such in gods, the rst being is chaos (chasm). The next: gaia (earth), tartaros (under the earth), Eros (desire, the force of attraction that causes things to get back together, very powerful, more powerful than zeus, no one can resist love).
