GRST 209 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cronus, 3Ak, Crius

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 209
• Professor: James Hume

Document Summary

Very first of all chaos came into being then [came] wide-bosomed gaia secure foundation of all forever and dark tartarus in the depth broad land and eros : gaia-earth, chaos- universe, tartarus- underworld, eros- god of unity and sex. 12 titans: tethys + ocean, phoebe +coeus (mother of leto, mnemosyne (memory, theia (mother of hyperion, themis (law, crius, hyperion (father of helius) Iapetus (father of prometheus: rhea+cronus (6 olymoians) Muses are daughters of zeus and mnemosyne (memory) Great uranus desirous of love, lay on ge, spreading himself over her completely. Cronus from his ambush reached with the huge sickleand swiftly cut off the genitals of his own dear father . White foam [aphors] arose about from the immortal flesh and in it a maiden grew (aphrodite) First she was brought to holy cythera and then from there shame to sea-girl cyprus (aphrodite)