AHI 105LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eileithyia, Typhon, Rhapsode
15 Oct 2018
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Lines 1-115: creation of the world and birth of the titans. 115-453: birth of the younger generation of gods. 454-617: battle between zeus and the titans. Atlas- promethius: sacrifice animal, god takes bones and human takes meat: zeus punished. Promethius titanomachy: puts titans in prison (animal will fall for 9 days) Chronos eats his children and upsets rhea- zeus escapes chronos, The new order: zeus- metis(wisdom): athena (keeps her in her head, doesn"t want her to give birth to any other children, zeus- themis(order) personification in the order of nature: seasons, eunomia (good order), Dike(justice, irene (peace: zeus- demeter: persephone, zeus- leto: apollo, artemis, zeus- maia: hermes, zeus- hera: ares, eileithyia, zeus- dione: aphrodite. Battle between titans and olympians: zeus vs. typhoeus. Hesiod"s five ages of mankind: gold, silver, bronze, heroes, iron, battle of the gods and the giants, sequel to the titanomachy. Of herakles: hybris, treasury of the siphnians, delphi, 530 b. c, altar of zeus at pergamon.
