CLAC02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Theodicy, Hermaphroditus, Interpolation
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Gaia seeks out retribution through violence (enlisting cronus: violence done against her and her children punishes him by providing a stone for a child, cronus against his own father by the violence he committed, gift exchange. Social realities: male control over reproduction and sexuality, mortals grow old and need a generation to replace them, this presented a threat to mortals, part of duty to maintain justice and order of family and state, female sexuality posed a threat to this order, fathering children was the only way to gain citizenship, men had full control over women depending on status. The creation of man 2: humans are becoming unjust, lycaon: wolf, plans to kill and deceive zeus by feeding him human beings, theodicy: justice of the gods, human kind has to be destroyed by sending a flood killing all but 2, deucalion and pyrrha survive the flood, oracle of themis helps them to recreate humans.
