CLST 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Asclepius, Melampus, Panathenaic Games
12 Jan 2016
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Unlike modern religions, greeks had many gods and those gods did not make. Hesiod, the author of theogony, explains how at the beginning there was only. Gaia (mother earth), ouranos (sky) and void (chaos). Gaia and ouranos mated and produced physical forms of which the world is made up of (mountains, etc) deposed kronos. Over time, kronos (their son) deposed ouranos by force, and then zeus. Zeus and 11 other gods were known as the olympian. Particular gods had particular interests and people chose and worshipped. Source for how the gods contrasted to humans. Reveal that gods are immortal gods based on those interests o. Gods demanded worship only in the sense of human acknowledgement but they did not love humanity in general, nor did they impose codes of belief or morality respected for it. They wanted to be recognized for the powers they had and to be o. Worship was done by making offering followed up by a prayer.
