CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Theogony
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Theogony is a catalogue of supernatural beings and other figures. Muses are the ones that gave hesiod his song Mnemosyne was memory, zeus slept with her and the muses were born. Spent nine nights with her, then she bore nine daughters. From chaos there was darkness and night, and from night there was aither and day. Kronos was born and he was a dick. Earth and sky also had three other children: kottos, They had a lot of arms and heads. Made some devious plan to trick them into wanting to kill. Kronos used a sickle and cut off sky"s genitals wtf. Monsters gave birth to other monsters that were killed by various heroes. She agreed to fight with zeus against the titans so he gave her a lot of shit. Zeus honors her // what does this even mean. He knew he would be overpowered by his kids (zeus,
