01:190:207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Diodorus Siculus, Cronus, Euhemerus
14 Mar 2018
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A history of myth in 25 quotes: 15 from the history of diodorus siculus. There were born to him by his wife hestia two sons, Titan and cronus, and two daughters, rhea and demeter. Cronus became king after uranus, and marrying rhea he begat zeus and hera and poseidon. Zeus, on succeeding to the kingship, married hera and demeter and themis, and by them he had children, the curetes by the first named, persephone by the second, and athena by the third. And going to babylon he was entertained by. Belus, and after that he went to the island of panchaea, which lies in the ocean, and here he set up an altar to uranus, the founder of his family. A history of myth in 15 gods and goddesses: 6: hermes (mercury, god of transitions and boundaries, patron of thieves and travelers and other things, messenger of the gods and guide of the dead into the underworld.
