CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homeric Hymns, Kythira, Trojan War
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Not like humans who need sons for livelihood. Without procreation, there would be no mythological system. Theogony, development of immortal time; succession myth: ouranos, kronos, zeus. Works & days, mortal time/ age of man : gold, silver, bronze, heroes, iron: olympians (i): children of kronos and rhea. Hades: olympian (ii): children of zeus and/or hera. Dionysos (born from zeus" thigh: pantheon. 12 tim : honor; office. (pl. timai: panhellenism, homeric hymns (not written by homer!! Immortal time: gods receive their timai and grow up . Mortal time: mortals still live in an age where mixing with gods is possible: age of heroes. In theogony, born from semen of ouranos + foam. Cult name kythereia because born near kythera, greekisland (also kyprogeneia) Neither gods nor men can resist her except: Artemis: zeus being tricked by aphrodite. Zeus sleeps with in form of a swan. Mother of greek hero perseus, later killed his grandfather (danae"s father)
