CLA 2323 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - Titans and Descendants

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2323
• Professor: Efharis Kostala;

Document Summary

Ouranos suppressed newborn children in gaia"s body. Gaia devised a plan and a weapon. Earth"s prophesy kronos will be overpowered by a son. Kronos swallowed his children as soon as they were born. Swallowed: hestia goddess of gathering as a family or public place. Not many stories of her: demeter goddess of earth and ground, hera wife of zeus, hades god of underworld, poseidon god of the sea. Rhea secretly gives birth to zeus in crete (big island) . Rhea gives kronos a stone wrapped up in baby clothes and. A king of the golden age and the king of the island of the blessed in works and days. A pre-greek god of agriculture (the kronia festival a carnival type of festival: dissolution of order) Golden age the king was kronos. The age where you can live forever until you wanted to die. The islands of bless is where the humans went to spend their eternal life.