CLAS 1P95 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tyrant, Theogony, Pomegranate

• School: Brock University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 1P95
• Professor: Anton Jansen

Document Summary

Part i: outline the greek myths we have about the creation of mortals. Be sure to deal with the hesiodic accounts and the flood story and its aftermath. Hesiod"s account of the creation of mortals does not directly address the creation of men. The first time that humans (men) appear in the theogony is when hesiod details the events at mekone when men and gods dined together. Hesiod"s myth is predominantly focused on the creation of gods rather than men, but he does detail a myth that explains how women came into the world as a direct result of the events that occur at mekone. Because of prometheus" trick, which gave zeus the inferior portion of meat, zeus decides to punish humans by taking fire away. Prometheus, being the patron of man, steals fire back from zeus. Zeus becomes so angry with prometheus that he punishes mankind (and.