CLA204H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cronus, Headache, Anshar
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Chapter 4 - myths of creation (i) Wrote the theogony in eighth century bc. It all started with chaos. Tartarus (below earth) - don"t confuse with hades. Cronus - last born titan (most clever) Hecatonchires (100 hands from their shoulders, 50 heads) Oceanus - river that circles the world (dome of sky touches flat surface of earth) (82) hyperion"s kids. Titan hyperion (he who gives love) - sun- god. Pha thon - son of helius and clymen . Selen seduced him in sleep = 50 daughters. Aphrodite- born from bloody genitals of a cosmic deity. Cronus - first king of the world. Children - hestia, demeter, hera, hades, poseidon, zeus. She hid zeus in crete (uranusu and gaea told her too) and he was raised by nymphs. The stone cronus swallowed = omphalos navel Zeus was not the king. They lived on mount olympus (not hades) However, titans hated them and attacked them = titanomachy (battle of the.
