CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kythira, Lightning, Theogony
31 Jan 2017
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The triumph of zeus in the early days of the world: from hesiod"s theogony. The poet hesiod lived circa 700 b. c. in central greece. He sourly describes his home valley as bad in winter, worse in summer, never good. his middle-class background he was a subsistence famer makes him unusual as a greek poet (many of whom came from the wealthy class). In his poetry, hesiod describes how as a boy he was tending sheep on mt. Helicon when the inspirational goddesses known as the muses appeared to him and breathed into him the gift of song. Our buxton textbook describes the muses at pp. Today, there survive two poems of substantial length by hesiod: the theogony ( birth of the. Hesiod"s myth of creation in the theogony. The myth of ouranos and gaia, and their son kronos [cronus] The myth of kronos and rheia, and their son zeus.
