Lecture 2 Flashcards

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Hesiod

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  • we know he wrote The Theogony and where he’s from because he put it in the prologue
  • what we know about his life comes from hundreds of years later when it was published
  • can’t really trust these biographies
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The Theogony

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  • Birth of the gods
  • origin story of the gods
  • sets up Greek way of ruling things
  • generations of the gods
  • sets up framework/look of the world (heaven, earth, underworld)
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Cosmogony

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-account of origin of the universe

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Cosmology

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-statement about the universe’s nature and purpose (logic of the cosmos)

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The Muses

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  • begin the story with dancing and are inspiring people to create art/literature/music/dance etc…
  • they inspire Hesiod with the story and say that he should sing about all the gods but that he must talk about the muses first and last.
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Kronion

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-son of Kronos and most important son is Zeus

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Chaos

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-comes first

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Early gods

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  • more of an image not a personified god.

- forces

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Gaia

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  • Earth
  • comes out of Chaos
  • parthenogeneic (no father) birth produces Ouranos (heaven), Mountains and Sea
  • non-parthenogenic birth with Ouranos produces Ocean, Krios, Hyperion, Lapetos, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoibe, and Thetys
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Tartaros

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  • underworld

- comes out of Chaos

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Eros

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  • love
  • comes out of Chaos
  • spirit of reproduction/regeneration especially in early gods
  • very powerful and early eternal force
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Night and Erebos

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  • Erebos=darkness

- come out of Chaos

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Day and Aether

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-come out of night and Erebos

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Gaia and Ouranos (Plan)

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-Gaia plans to castrate Ouranos to remove his power
-Hides Kronos so that he can do this
-Blood from castration drips on ground and creates the Furies, Giants, and Ash-tree nymphs
Genitals that fall to earth make Aphrodite
-Kronos now rules the gods because Ouranos is powerless

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Furies

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-punish people for wrongdoings

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Giants

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-cause problems for humans and gods

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Eros vs. Aphrodite

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  • eros is the primordial force of love

- Aphrodite more traditional and classic/romantic/lustful type of love

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First Generation Olympians

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  • Zeus: sky, thunder, gods…
  • Hera: queen, marriage, childbirth
  • Demeter: harvest
  • Poseidon: sea
  • Hestia: hearth
  • Hades: underworld
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Kronos and his Children

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  • only Kronos is going to be king so he eats all his children
  • Rhea protects Zeus and hides him while feeding Kronos a rock instead
  • Zeus fights Kronos to become “master of the universe
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Zeus and Prometheus

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  • testing of Zeus’ power
  • The Trickery of Sacrifice
  • The Theft of Fire–>results in Pandora
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More Olympian GOds

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  • Athena: wisdom
  • Dionysus: wine
  • Apollo: sun, arts, oracle
  • Artemis: the hunt and childbirth
  • Hermes: messenger
  • Ares: war
  • Aphrodite: love