CLAA06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 61-97: Mount Othrys, Typhon, Coeus
11 Apr 2016
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Devotes lines to the beauty and power of muses. First there was chaos (it was the first principle/void) Next came gaia (gaea/ge earth) came out of chaos. From chaos came erebus and dark night. Tartarus is a deep depths of the earth. Erebus is a gloomy darkness of tartarus; later equated with tartarus. Disagreement over when and where eros, gaea and tartarus emerge from. Love is typically a potent force in tales of creation and procreation which appears in the. Characterizes the most beautiful eros by his characteristically brief and descriptive touches. For the romans he was called cupid (or amor) (from ge and tartarus came; uranus mountains pontus) (from m. night; day and. Ovid was a roman poet 700 yrs after hesiod. Ovid"s chaos is a crude and unformed mass of elements in strife from which a god formed all of the universe. The sacred marriage of uranus (sky) and gaia (earth) and their offspring.
