CLAS 430 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Zeus, Order Of Australia, God
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"works and days" - how to live your life as a greek in that day"s economy, conflict betw. Tartarus - bad part of the underworld (all dead go to either good or bad underworld) Eros - place of love or force of attraction. Cosmogony: origin of the universe/ how the universe comes to be from a gap (chaos) Chaos, gaea, tartarus and eros - first generation gods. Gaea and uranus - "hieros gamos" = scared marriage only for cosmic union. Uranus was as big and important as gaea. Titans - hyperion, rhea, cronus (rhea and cronus produce the next generation) Helius = sun god (male) - story of phaethon (son of helius) Selene (female) - she falls in love with endymion. She puts endymion into an eternal sleep to prevent him from ageing as he. Eos/aurora (female) - she falls in love with tithonus. Zeus grants her wish for tithonus to stay immortal but he keeps growing o.
