CLA 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tyrant, Eileithyia, Terpsichore
13 Sep 2017
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08/28/17: cosmology: science/system that investigates/explains laws of universe, cosmogony: origin of world, greek mythology ideas arose when greek civilization was created, between the island of. Crete and mainland of greece: mainland: patriarchal, worship is based on male sky gods. Island: matriarchal, worship is based on female earth gods: mythology is a blend of these two, cosmos: rational order, chaos (in early greece): unformed matter, throughout mythology, patriarchal stories/elements dominate but matriarchal ones remain strong as well. The king of the underworld is pluto/hades (4) tartarus: part of the underworld; resides below it. Serves as a prison for (immortal) enemies of the gods where they are kept forever. In the beginning, there was chaos (in other words: undifferentiated matter). Out of chaos, primordial entities arose without mating or sex: first differentiation/entity: dark and light, night and day, second: uranus (heaven) and gaea (earth).
