CLAS 10200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2, 9-10, 14-15: Anaxarete, Hippomenes, Ocyrhoe
1 May 2016
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Birth of the world: separated earth from heaven, separated sea from land, separated lighter air and heavier air, made stars, fish, beasts, birds, and man. Gold age: trust, moral goodness, and fruitfulness. Silver age: people had to work for a living. Bronze age: saw the first wars, some morality persisted. Iron age: nothing is sacred, even family ties led to bloodshed, gods witness human impiety. Lycaon: treats jupiter with the greatest disrespect. Tries to murder jupiter in his sleep: jupiter punishes humanity with a flood. Deucalion and pyrrha are the only who survive because of their piety: themis tells them to cover their heads, let their garments loose, and throw their mother"s bones over their shoulders to repopulate the. They use stones instead and they work. Eros shoots two arrows, one at apollo and one at daphne. One makes apollo fall in love and the other makes daphne hate. She cries out to her father, a nymph.
