HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Northern Greece, Lyric Poetry, Typhon
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Hesiod: theogony and works and days: background of hesiod. The theogony as cosmogony: different ways of looking at the theogony. Links between the theogony and works and days. Stories about hesiod and a hymn to the muses. Different ways of looking at the theogony. His name means he who produces a voice . His father, a merchant, lost his fortune and migrated from asia minor to boeotia in. Hesiod was a shepherd until one day on mount helicon, he encountered the muses who breathed poetry into him. 123-153: the first group, the children of chaos and children gaia. 211-239: the second group, the children of night and children of pontos. 621-825: struggle for power between kronos and zeus. 826-885: typhoeus; zeus is chosen king of the gods. 886-929: zeus" marriages to goddesses; birth of athena(goddess of wisdom) Is a mixture of mythology, ethical maxims and collection of wise tips and sayings. Starts also with an invocation of the muses.
