CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homeric Hymns, Omphalos, Erinyes
11 Mar 2013
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Cronus (last born son) + rhea = (2nd hieros gamos) children: elder olympians. Lapetus (best remembered for his children): atlas (carrying weight of heavens on his shoulders), prometheus (stories where he is mortal), epimetheus (stand in for humanity) Coeus (famous because of daughter leto): leto (mother of apollo and artemis) Mnemosyne ( memory", mother of 9 muses): muses (9) (patronesses of arts) Hyperion: helius ( sun"), selene ( moon"), eos ( dawn") Phaethon (ovid"s metamorphoses: son of helius, oath on river styx, the driving of the chariot of the sun, hybris (pride/arrogance against the gods, devastation of the kosmos, death by zeus" thunderbolt and fall into the eridanus river. Selene ( moon") and endymion (mortal human: endymion"s fate: eternal sleep. Eos ( dawn") and tithonus (mortal human) (homeric hymn to aphrodite: tithonus"s fate: cicada (lives forever but grows older and becomes only a sound)
