CLASS102 Chapter 3: Creation Myths
4 Feb 2019
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Chapter 3: myths of creation: opens by describing the muses, zeus"s daughters very beautiful and powerful dancing and singing for the gods on. Ovid: chaos isn"t a gaping hole (like according to hesiod), but is actually an unformed mass of elements in strife that a god used to create the universe, metamophoses. The 12 titans are deifications of different parts of nature and are best thought of in pairs (6 males, 6 females). Oceanus & oceanids: spirits of rivers, waters, and springs, oceanus + his mate (tethys) oceanids (children, 3000 daughters + 3000 sons. Her corpse grew into a frankensense trea and clytie turned into a sunflower: nymph rhodes, clytie (turned into a sunflower) Zeus granted endymion eternal sleep and eternal youth. Apollo (sun god) & artemis (moon goddess: phoebus: bright , probably wasn"t originally a sun-god, but eventually became considered one, phaethon = apollo"s son, artemis: apollo"s twin sister associated with the moon.
