CLA 395 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Coeus, Cyclops, Theogony
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The muses taught hesiod the song as he tended his sheep. Mnemosyne laid with her father, zeus, and birthed the 9 muses. The muses and apollo blessed those musically blessed. Chaos was born first and after it came gaia. Gaia, mother earth, gave birth to the tall mountains, enchanting haunts of the divine nymphs who dwell in the woodlands; and then she bore pontos, the barren sea with its raging swell, (line 129-131) Gaia + ouranos = okeanos, koios and kreios, hyperion and iapetos, Theia and rheia, themis and mnemosyne, phoibe and tethys, kronos, Kyklopes, brontes, streopes, arges, kottos, briareos, and gyges. Kronos was the last born, and he hated ouranos. They were like gods but they had an eye in the middle of their foreheads kyklopes , arges, one more. Three great and powerful sons, kottos, briareos, and gyges. Each had a hundred invincible arms and no less than fifty heads.
