CLCV 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Theogony, Cosmogony, Acronym
19 May 2014
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Questions for i>clicker quizzes and multiple choice exams are drawn from these questions: define cosmogony: a story that explains the origin of the world , define theogony: a story that explains the origin of the gods and their rise to power. They are the same when the cultures worship gods who control aspects of nature. So in the greek and indo-european cultures the story of how the earth was made is the same as how the gods were created and rose to power. The principal mythological account of the creation of the world is a poem called the theogony and was written by hesiod in the 8th century b. c. Acronym to remember it by: the- theogony, hesiod, eighth century: list three ways in which hesiod organized traditional stories about the origins of the world and the gods, space. Tartarus windswept and dark, deep in the caverns of broad-wayed earth.
