ENGL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moirai, Persian Princess, Dikti
19 Apr 2016
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Trying to explain what things are and why. Only fragments of his work left behind. World was floating on water > reason for earthquakes. Believed in aeiron > invisible substance that constantly reproduces new material. Born from it, turn into it when you die. Earth is a cylinder that floats in the centre of the universe. Invented the gnomon > pointy part of the sundial. Early theory of evolution > humans originally sea dwellers, burst out of fish to move onto land. 5 elements came form the chaos: gaia (ge/gaea) > earth, tartarus > underworld, eros > love, erebus > darkness, nyx > night. Aether > god of the upper air. The furies > make sure people who do unjust deeds get their just rewards. Daughters of erubus and nyx > earliest version. Takes the souls of the dead across the river (the living cannot cross)
