CLAS 160D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amphidamas, Basileus, Theogony
19 Sep 2016
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Many myths of creation in greece with parallels in egypt, sumer, babylon, and. Ocean and tethys are the primordial gods in homer, but this is only as passing reference. Hesiod gives the earliest literary account of the origin of the cosmos and the gods/ natural forces. His poem theogony is organized as a genealogy of the gods; the works and days is primarily focused on human wisdom (like proverbs) but contains some additional mythology. The focal point of the theogony is how the divine hierarchy recognized by the greeks came to be. Father came from cyme, in asia minor. Father migrated to ascra, a town in boeotia. Hesiod and his brother perses born and grew up there. After their father"s death, perses seemingly bribed the town of cials (basileis) to award him bulk of the inheritance. Hesiod disputed the secession and this situation forms the context for the works and.
