CLASSIC 45A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lightning, Museo Del Prado, Clytemnestra
4 Oct 2018
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| god wine, ritual madness, theater: olympian characteristics, zeus. Symbols - eagle, bull, oak & olive tree: constrained by obligations to other gods, horkios, xenios, hikesios, defeats titans (cronus) and typhoeus (child of gaia and tartarus) to. Control the universe (1) typhoeus - half man, half beast (a) represents social anarchy: hera. Symbols - scepter, crown, fully clothed, lion, hawk, peacock, cuckoo, Erebus & nyx -> aether (heavens) hemera (day) (1) cronus and rhea bare 6 olympians. He is foretold that his son will overthrow him so he eats his children. Rhea feeds cronus a rock on their 6th child, zeus. Zeus tricks cronus into coughing up his siblings. Zeus frees cyclops & hecatonchires, with rhea & Prometheus, defeat the titans: orphics - cronus bore an egg, and it engendered all other gods. Short answer: prometheus bound, human connection may be a powerful response to hostile divinity, prometheus & zeus. Prometheus tricks zeus into picking fat covered/inedible content.
