CLA204H1 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 summary
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The rise of zeus y hesiod tells of the origin of the universe through succeeding generations of gods. Cosmogony: a story that explains the origin of the world . The children of gaea: the titans and their cousins y cyclopes and hecatonchires had important roles to play in the world s early days. The titans y gaea first bore asexually uranus y then she bore her watery doublet pontus y. Hyperion s children: sun, moon, dawn y the titan hyperion is a sun god, father to the better known helius, also a sun-god; to. Selene, the moon; and to eos, the dawn. y phaethon, the son of helius and clymene, an oceanid: although phaethon s mother was married to the king of ethiopia, she promised him that his father was the sun. As confirmation, she told phaethon to journey to the sun s palace where the sun allowed phaethon one wish.
