Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anger, Silver Age, Theogony

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Hesoid"s tells the story t(cid:449)i(cid:272)e a(cid:271)out pa(cid:374)dora a(cid:374)d pro(cid:373)etheus a(cid:374)d (cid:271)oth ha(cid:448)e so(cid:373)e differe(cid:374)(cid:272)es. Lapetos and clymene both titans had four sons named atlas, menoitis, prometheus (forethought) and epimetheus (after thought). Each child offends zeus and is punished by him. Genealogy is a model of the world order in greek myth. Pro(cid:373)etheus"s (cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:449)as al(cid:449)ays (cid:373)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d so he (cid:449)as s(cid:373)art, epi(cid:373)etheus ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er (cid:449)as the opposite, he was not so smart. Menoitos was blasted by zeus as punishment. Atlas was punished by holding up the world for eternity. Heracles is the son of zeus and a mortal woman, and was known as the greatest hero of the greeks. He freed prometheus with the permission from zeus, so that it would give glory to heracles. Zeus was angry with prometheus because they were on the same level of wit and prometheus also had forethought.