CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lightning, Dactylic Hexameter, Epic Poetry
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Wrote down and edited myths from its oral form 100"s of years earlier. Hesiod"s and ovid"s story of creation of world is very different. Theogony: work on the genealogy of the gods. Begins with chaos- a big gaping void/ empty space. Anthropomorphism: human shaped; greeks often thought of their gods as humans even if they represent natural forces ex. ) Sent to live in tartarus with other titans. Cuts off his father"s genitals and threw them into the sea. Eats his children so they don"t overthrow him. Brings end to all wars among gods over rule of universe. Lives in mt olympus with other gods. Customarily represented with an eagle and lightning bolt. In theogony, she"s born from ouranos genitals being thrown in the sea. In homer, she is daughter of zeus and dione. Important ally to humans, protected them from zeus and was punished for it. Member of titan generation but didn"t get sent to tartarus.
