CLA204H1 Chapter : Zeus's battles and Babylonian Enuma elish
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Zeus against cronus: the battle with the titans. With overthrow of uranus, cronus became the first king of the world. Rhea went to her parents, gaea and uranus, for advice. + he ruled over a complex realm filled with many new beings. + had to be underhanded, violent, and suspicious to maintain his power. + told by his parents that he would fall victim to one of his children; feared his children and swallowed them as fast as they issued forth from his wife and sister, rhea. + children were hestia, demeter, hera, hades, poseidon, and zeus;; the six gods who would one day divide the power of the world among themselves. journey to crete and bear her youngest child, zeus. She did and hid him in a mountain cave, where he was brought up by nymphs on milk from the goat amalthea and honey from melissa, the bee.
