CLAS 2520 Lecture 2: Victory of the Olympians, Greek Religion (Slides w/ Extra Lecture Notes)

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2520
• Professor: Rob Nau

Document Summary

Note: these notes answer why the olympian gods and goddesses are the deities that rule the cosmos even though they are about three generations after the creation of the cosmos. Hesiod"s theogony from around the 7th century bc. Also the god chaos (concept and deities at the same time: gaia (earth) Surface of the earth down a bit: tartarus (lowest earth) Down to the roots of the earth/depths: eros (love) Without the force of attractiveness and reproduction, the theogo(cid:374)(cid:455) (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t take pla(cid:272)e so. Eros must be present right at the start. Night and erebus as a couple produces two kinds of light: Aether (bright light/upper air surrounding the whole earth realm) Day (normal light of day on earth) Scholars argue that time kicks into cosmos at this point when both night and day are at work. Gaia (mother earth) was hyper-fertile at the start of the cosmos.