CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cumulonimbus Cloud, Polytheism, Cyrus The Great

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Live on mount olympus (like heaven: offspring of rhea &cronus (titans, offspring of gaia and uranus, hestia (vesta= roman equivalent) Goddess of the hearth (center of home, where fire (for cooking and heat) is, where religious ceremonies were done etc. ) Important goddess in religion but not so much in mythology, One of the virgin goddesses: hades (pluto, dis) Mostly sits in the underworld being important, not so active. Dragged down wife (persephonie) down to the underworld. Not seen as devil like in the disney movie hercules: poseidon (neptune) God of sea, aka earth shaker (idea that earth sat on part of the ocean) Mentioned in the iliad and the odyssey. Seems to lose a lot when it comes to wanting to be a patron god of a city. Also associated with horses: demeter (ceres) Goddess of grain and riches from ground. Highly regarded (eleusinian mysteries: hera (juno)