ENG 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Jungian Archetypes, Indo-European Languages, Erinyes
17 May 2016
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Homer"s, for example, reflects a primitive belief that the universe can be understood in terms of a simple geography. The world is a flat disc with hills, touched at its rim by the dome of the heavens. Hesiod, however, was the first to give literary expression to a systematic explanation of how everything came into being in his theogony and works and days. Hesiod"s tale begins with an invocation of the muses, with particular emphasis upon their ability to inspire the infallible revelation of the poet. He asks them how first gods, earth, rivers, the boundless sea the shining stars, and the wide heavens above came into being. They answer that first was chaos [void], followed by gaia [earth] and dark tartarus [depth beneath the earth] and eros [love]. From chaos, erebus [the gloom of tartarus] and black night came into being; from night and erebus, aether [the upper atmosphere] and day were born.
