CLASSICS 2D03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pentheus, Actaeon, Hubris
4 Jan 2017
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Ouranos hated the hekatonchires and hid them away in the middle of the earth, which was very physically painful for gaia. This pain fueled her anger, and she told her other children that ouranos must be punished. Cronos took the courage to perform the deed, as he too had great hate for his father. When ouranos was sleeping, cronos castrated him with a sickle his mother gave him. This correlates to the ages of man, through which the iron. Jupiter/jove/zeus converses with a council of gods determined to wipe away the human race. At this point, zeus is filled with anger, calling humans unworthy of the gods. Some gods greatly agreed with zeus while others pondered the thought of having no one to worship them: zeus was so angry that the human race had become so corrupted that he proceeded to flood the earth. But upon this destruction, he saw one man and one woman worshipping the gods.
