CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Typhon
Lecture 3 4/7
• Chaos
• Primordial gods:
• Eros
• Tartaros
• Ouranos
• Gaia
• Sea
• Night
• Mountains
• Lines 207-210: Titans (overreachers) named because they overreached their father
(Ouranos) and did terrible things; set the plot of revenge
• Line 182: birth of Aphrodite
• Ways of birth
Decapitation (Perseus cut off Medusa’s head -> Pegasus & Chrysaor)
• Kronos = time; succession myth: son replaces fathers
• Kronos + Rhea -> Zeus + others
• “craft & force”
- Gaia & Rhea the conspirators(craft)
- Ouranos & Kronos the fools (force)
• Zues secures his rule
- Fights Titans (Titanomachy)
➢ Ten-year war
➢ Wins using lightening bolts from the Cyclops with hundred handers he released
➢ Puts Titans in prison
- Fights Typhoeus (Typhonamachy)
- Deals with succession problem
• Gaia + Tartaros (underworld) -> Typhoeus (monster)
- “storm god”
- almost overthrows Zeus
- Monstrous (lines 821)
- Second big battle for Zeus after the one after Titans
- Volcano, wind
• Zeus + Metis (cleverness) -> Athena (wisdom)
- Zeus swallows Metis and gives birth to Athena through the head
- So it’s his own child; no succession problem
• Metis
- Would-be-mother of Athena
- Mention Gaia when answering Metis question (craft & cunningness)
• Problem solved?
- Athena as his ally
- No direct son to succeed him
- Titans locked away
- Typhoeus defeated
- Honors are apportioned to family members
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