CLAS 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Hekatonkheires, Bronze Age, Cronus
14 Jul 2016
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" rise to power: the creation of mortals: the titanomachy: zeus defeats his father, cronus, zeus waged war against his father with his disgorged brothers and sisters as allies : hestia, Cronus" side: battle was known as the titanomachy was of epic proportions- zeus fighting from mountain. Did not eat bread at all but were terrifying and had dauntless hearts of adamant: worked with bronze implements, destroyed by their own hands, black death seized them, heroes age: Prometheus tricked zeus: the gods and mortal man had arranged a meeting at mecone where the matter of division of sacrifice between gods and men was to be settled. Prometheus slew a large ox, and di- vided it into two piles. In one pile he put all the meat and most of the fat, skillfully covering it with the ox"s grotesque stomach, while in the other pile, he dressed up the bones artfully with shining fat.
