ENG 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Old Age, Castration, Odysseus
17 May 2016
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Zeus"s rise to power: the creation of mortals. When zeus had matured, cronus was beguiled into bringing up all that he had swallowed, first the stone, and then the children. They banned together and waged war against their father. Zeus released as well the hecatonchires and the cyclopes from where uranus had imprisoned them, and these banned together with zeus as well, the latter becoming the forgers of his thunder and lightning. On cronus"s side were the titans, with the exception of themis/clymene and her son prometheus, both of whom allied with zeus. This battle, known as the titanomachy, lasted ten years, the gods fighting from mt. It was a great one, but zeus was victorious. The hecatonchires guarded the titans, which were imprisoned in tartarus. Atlas was punished with the task of holding up the sky. The gigantomachy: zeus defeats the giants and typhoeus. Zeus also had to face the threat from the giants.
