CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture 3: 3- Creation - The Gods and their Nature
17 Sep 2016
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3 - creation: the gods and their nature. Where does the world come from? cosmogony: kosmos = world , world can refer to earth or can refer to the existence in which we live; something much larger. Gony" = birth; begotten / creation of something. Theogony: theos = god", theogony = birth of the theoi" = birth of the gods, many different/contradictory versions. Hymn to zeus last greatest god: olympians, how he acquires power and how he looks at the world what his power is based on. Let us begin to sing of the muses of helicon zeus invokes the muses. Chaos means a gap, a void, a lack of anything; chaos is not a god or divine spirit. To the greek mind, if existence ahd to come into being, nothing" had to come before. Pontus (sea) mother earth is chief and most important.
