CLA204H5 : Classics 204.docx

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Needs to have divine, hero, king characters. When myths were being developed they didn"t have writing they were worth of remembering. Don"t have only one author they are anymous. Some myths are created to explain things for example creation stories. 700 bc in the early archaic greek period. Theogony a divine myth the origin of the gods: theos = god, gonia = coming to be, aka birth of the gods. Gods make up the cosmos: order of the universe. Order of the gods is also of the cosmosodity. Starts with a dream of the muses. Main elements of culture are still on going no one knows what"s happening. Hesiod life and works father originally from cyme (aeolia) Hesoid fell out with brother perses over inheritance. Works: theogony, works and days, catalogue of women. Information hints that he was a sheppard or farmer. Theogony: account of the origins of the gods. This text is both theogony and cosmogony.

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