CLA204H1 Chapter : second batch of textbook notes
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Hesiod cosmogony and theogony same; theogony elaborate hymn to zeus (8th cent) Chaos: gap, yawn, chasm opening from which other primordial beings came. Tartarus confused in greek myth with hades" abode; hesiod personifies. Hesiod tried to delinate space olympus (top), gae (middle), tartarus (bottom) Not clear whether four separate or all came from chaos, ne said single origin. Titans o: with uranus six male/six female cronus last born. Uranus same size as gaea, covered her completely, permanent sexual embrace. Titan hyperion is sun-god, father to helius (sungod), selene (moon), eos (dawn) Homeric hymn to herlius journey of helius. Mother married to king of ethiopia, begged mother, asked drive chariot. Lost control of chariot, liya scorched, ethiopians turned black; fell into eridanus. Selene fell in love with shepherd endymion, seduced, fifty daughters, permanent sleep so never gorw old. Eos loved tithonus, immortal forgot never age, closed up in room o o.
