HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coeus, Oceanus, Sea Foam
16 Dec 2016
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Framed to us through a conversation between muses and hesiod. Muses lovely magical lady creatures that frolic on the mountain side. Genealogical progression on generation of the gods. Family dynamics: nasty business between father and sons and mother sort of fit into that. Theogony in 2 words: theos + gonos = theogoneia. Theos means divine, if you are monotheist you believe in one god, polytheist you believe in multiple gods. The title basically is birth of the gods. (theogony) Hesiod will tell us how gods were born. When hesiod starts to tell us the birth of the gods, he actually starts by the origin of the. Sometimes these poem can be described as kosmogeneia. Carefully constructing all of the divine forces, he is bringing us a universe that"s orderly, culiminate in the most orderly person which is zeus (the supreme feature of the god).
