CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cronus, Potamoi, Hekatonkheires
4 Apr 2016
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Homer"s) but hesiod"s theogony was the most important. Homer"s idea that there are two water deity"s and the world became out of that: background issues: Inspiraion: the muses: goddesses who were important to ancient greeks, they inspired poetry, poetry was extremely important, muses were viewed as teachers of greece, poet"s would introduce their poetry via muses, ex. Zeus; c) jusify poliical realiies: zeus becomes the god who punishes evil and rewards good but he doesn"t start as the. Gigantomachy: giants take the place of typhon in atacking zeus, batle of the giants against the olympians, cf. Birth of athena: zeus"s 1st wife will produce a child who will overthrow him, he married mateus, zeus then swallowed mateus before she gave birth she was pregnant with athena, and. Athena was born: athena wasn"t a threat to zeus because she was female she was zeus"s favorite child.
