CLA 2323 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Homeric Hymns, Thaleia, Hephaestus
2 Mar 2017
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Lecture 5: the supremacy of zeus & hera. Hundred-handers as allies, he lead the olympians against the titans. *defeated at last the titans were confined in tartaros. This means that the soon-to-be born athene would be born from zeus himself. Though eventually fail to resist zeus thunderbolt & too confined in tartaros. In final section of theogony outlines - where zeus consolidated his rule. Until now, zeus" power was under threat from typhoeus, gaia"s child. His first wife was metis ( crafty intelligence) When he learnt that his first born child would rule over gods & men: he swallowed his wife. Produced children that would support his rule rather than opposed to it. From themis - he produced 3 horai ( the seasons : eunomia (lawfulness, dike (right) From eurynome (oceanid) - he produced charites ( the graces ): aglaia, euphrosyne & thaleia. The muses also came from zeus with his wife mnemosyne ( memory )
