CLASSICS 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Pandarus, Odysseus, Peisistratos
5 Sep 2016
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Explore hesiod"s theogony - what is it? why it is. Follow cosmic dynastic struggles that lead to rise of zeus and the twelve olympians. Follow zeus"s battles with the titans, typhoeus, and the giants. Witness the origins of aphrodite and athena. Survey the similarities between cosmic myths of greeks and those of other mesopotamian and near eastern peoples study notes: Explores myths of creation - those myths that have something to say about how things came to be. Looking to ancient near east with its stories of conflict, struggle, and separation symbolizing the forces that brought the world of gods and people into being. All reflected in hesiod"s theogony (8th century bc) witness emergence of zeus, meet children of chaos, children of gaea (titans and their cousins, the cyclopes and the hecatonchires), aphrodite and various monsters and sea gods. We observe zeus in his various struggle to achieve the supremacy he eventually enjoys.
