C C 303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Oceanid, Castration, Hieros Gamos

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: C C 303
• Professor: Nethercut William

Document Summary

First to give literary expression to a systematic explanation of how the gods, the universe, and humankind came into being. Chaos came first - it is a void. Then came gaia, tartarus, eros, erebus, night, day and aether. Love appears in theogony of hesiod, eros plays a role. Chaos is a crude and unformed mass of elements in strife. Sacred marriage of uranus and gaia and their offspring. Him and theia are parents of helius, selene and eos. Accused of not being son of helius, told by him mom that he is. He is indeed and wants to fly his dad"s chariot. He does, and fails, and and jupiter kills him out of mercy. Selene saw endymion asleep in a cave on my latmus. She sleeps beside him and he is granted perpetual sleep and youth. Tithonus was handsome youth of the trojan royal house. Eos asked for tithonus to be eternal, but not perpetual youth.