CLAA06H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Minos, Aeneid, Laius
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Part c: p. 72: hesiod"s theogony on the castration of uranus: written by hesiod, in. Uranus throws all of his children into tartarus, inside ge. Ge realizes his evil, and she creates a great sickle. She asked all of her children for help killing uranus, and only. She gave him the sickle, and when uranus came to ge looking for love, cronus used the sickle to cut his genitals off. And the genitals landed in the sea, which frothed and the goddess aphrodite was created through the foam. This is hesiod"s telling of the divine myth of the myth of succession, as the son defeats the father with the help of the mother. This also shows a theme of animism vs anthropomorphism, as ge and uranus are known as both the sky and earth, and her children are literally cast inside of her.
