CLSX 148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abzu, Theogony, Kumarbi

• School: University of Kansas
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLSX 148
• Professor: Tara Welch

Document Summary

Ouranos: zeus overthrows kronos, kronos swallows his children, rheia (mother) helps zeus overthrow kronos by giving kronos a stone to swallow instead of zeus, allowing zeus to grow up, rheia makes kronos throw up the rest of his swallowed children, they overthrow kronos, battle of olympians and titans 10 years, zeus and olympians win, battle of zeus and typhoios, gaia gives rise to typhoios, zeus wins, zeus assigns honors and jurisdictions to the gods, zeus is master of the universe , decides to create system of duties to all the gods, attempting to end the cycle of violence. Terms: hesiod, theogony, dacylic hexameter, aitology, chaos, aphrodite, eros, gaia, ouranos, tartaros, metis, titans, kronos, rhea, omphalos, delphi, olympians, zeus, prometheus, titanomchy, typhoeus, sigmund freud. Hesiod"s succession myth: ouranos & gaia kronos & rheia zeus, freudian, fathers are arrogant, gullible, paranoid, abusive, ouranos stuffs children into mother, kronos swallows children himself, zeus swallows metis (problem isn"t kids, problem is mother)