CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cronus, Meliae, Oceanid

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

Document Summary

Creation: variety of accounts, philosophical, natural philosophers (6th - 5th c. ) First of the philosophers - thales said water was the original of everything: epicureans (ca 300 bc) Atoms swerved and creating the world: mythical, homer: oceanus and tethys (2 gods that created the world, ovid: eclectic - earth went from chaos to an organized world. Means pick and choose from other sources: hesiod"s account - wrote around the time of homer. Wrote the theogony: background issues, inspiration: the muses. Said the muses went to him and told him that they would tell him the truth while they tell lies to other poets. Past, present, future are apparently knowable: purpose: a) origins b) praise gods esp. Zeus is the ruler of the world: account of creation. First came chaos, earth, tartarus, and eros: primeval elements: chaos, earth (gaia/ge), tartarus, eros. **distance between chaos-earth and earth to tartarus is 9 bronze (9 days)