CLT 3370 Lecture Notes - Oceanid, Nereid, Ichor
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January 23rd, 2013: sumerians 4000-2400 bce, akkadians semites 2300 bce, babylonians hammurabi 1750 bce. Almost no account of origin of people from other lands. Zeus, hera, poseidon, demeter, hestia, and aphrodite + children of zeus, Zeus and hera, hera, and zeus + others. Zeus is the great/father/king of this court of gods and goddesses. Gods are human shaped and human like. Hundreds of other minor deities flesh out the world. By far the most powerful of the gods. Father of gods and men, overseer of everything that happens on earth. Numerous affairs father of heroes as well as gods (through sexual generation, he structures the world)