CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hecate, Enkidu
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Keto or medusa gave birth to a monster. Echidna bore the dog of hades with 50 heads. Styx bore kids from zeus to get honor and the kids lived with zeus. Zeus gave her honor so that her and her children can be on his side to conquer the titans. Hekate is practically the world because she is earth and sea. Rhea bore hades, zeus, and posidon and others. Rhea always loved the youngest and her loyalty changed from one son to another. Zeus tricked kronos to eat a stone. Prometheus deceived zeus and zeus punished him; hercules helps. The enuma elish the first stories before hesiod in babylonia. Homer was babylonian and changed his name from tigranes to homer. Homer changed his name among the greeks. The stories were first spread through writing. There was no reason to separate greece from mesopotamia. Both the enuma elish and hesiod believed that water came first.
