CLAS 203 Lecture 1: Greek Mythology CLAS 203
14 Jan 2018
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Zeus and memory (mnemosyne: had an affair and she gave birth to 9 muses, this includes calliope who is the muse of epic poetry. Oceanos and tethys: they had the oceanids, they were 3000 boys and 3000 girls, they represented springs, rivers, streams and have mythological personalities. Hyperion and theia: they had eos, helios, selene. Nyx: she is the personification of night, she is more psychological darkness than physical darkness. The moirai (the fates: they are children of nyx, they are three old women, clotho (spinner) will give life, lachesis (apportioner) will determine how long you live, atropos (inflexible) will determine when you die. The first generation of olympian gods: they come from cronos and rhea (both are titans, they have hera, zeus, poseidon, hades, hestia, demeter. Hades: he then had more children with gaia, the titans, including cronos, gaia was angry that ouranos threw her children in tartaros and persuaded the titans to attack their father.
