CAS CL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Theogony, Parthenogenesis, Theistic Evolution
20 Mar 2015
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Scribe: lianne o"reilly: through the creation of myths the greeks attempted to systematize their observations on nature and satisfy their curiosity. In greek the work mythos means stories. The creation of myths can viewed as an early form of constructing hypotheses and conceptualizing natural phenomena: one of the sources for greek mythology: hesiod"s poem theogony. Hesiod was an epic poet who probably lived in the 8th century bce. Although we only have two of his completed poems, it is believed he wrote around six. Two of his poems survived in their entirety: theogony and works and days, from the rest only fragments are known. Theogony is a systematic account of myths about gods (conceived as a. Panhellenic presentation), while works and days represents the didactic genre of. Works and days is an example of the wisdom type of poetry that was popular in: the greek cosmogony (ultimate beginning of everything) Greek cosmos ordering, ordered state (compare cosmetics)
