ANTH 4220 Chapter Notes -Cronus, Crius, Coeus
Document Summary
Hesiod rst to give literary expression to a systematic explanation of how the gods, the universe, and mankind came into being. His account starts rst when chaos came into being. Eros is lovemay very well be the one who, in later tradition, called phanes, the one who rst shone forth light or gave light to creation. Ovid, a roman poet who wrote approx. 700 years after hesiod; has own account of. Is about a crude and unformed mass of elements in strife, from which [a unnamed] god or some higher nature formed the order of the universe. For hesiod, appears to be that rst deity is female, a basic matriarchal concept of mother earth and her fertility as primary and divine. The personi cation and dei cation of sky (uranus) and earth (gaia) and their physical union represent basic recurring themes in mythology. 12 in number: oceanus, coeus, crius, hyperion, iapetus, theia, rhea, themis,
