CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mount Othrys, Kumarbi, Enlil

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Greek/ro(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)reatio(cid:374) (cid:373)(cid:455)ths si(cid:373)ilar to other (cid:272)ulture"s (cid:373)(cid:455)ths. Homer titans oceanus and tethys responsible for creation, based on geography. Hesiod first literary creation story, theogony/works and days. Hesiod theogony tells of the power of muses (daughters of zeus), first god was chaso, then. Gaia, dark tartarus, eros most beautiful immortal god, responsible for judgement. Erebus (gloom of tartarus) and black night birthed aether (upper atmosphere) and day. Chaos not particularly a deity, but a beginning/void. Tartarus the depths of the earth. Eros beautiful, love, cupid (or amor) for romans. Empedocles cited by ovid, theorized four basic elements earth, air, fire, water. Creation according to ovid chaos not a void but a mass of elements that formed the order of the universe. Sacred marriage of uranus (sky) and gaia (earth) and their offspring. Uranus sky god, created by gaia herself, seen as equal to gaia (earth)