Theogany Flashcards
Hesiod
Author, wrote Theogony and Works and Days
Works and Days
Bibliography/ manual on how to farm
Mt. Helicon
Muses visited him here
Theogony
Birth and origins of the gods and humans
Generational conflict winner
Zeus
Similarities with Enumah Elish
generational conflict
Monster gender
female
Order of creation
chaos
Gaia, Tartaros, Eros, Uranos
Titans
Olympians
Chaos
void
Gaia
Earth
Tartaros
Underworld
Eros
desire
Uranos
sky
Titans
Offspring of Gaia and Uranos, Uranos stuffs them back up into Gaia, Rhea, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Kronos
Kronos
Castrates Uranos, has Olympians with Rhea, eats Olympians
Aphrodite
born of members of Uranos
Sickle of adamanteum
directly from Hittite myth
Furies
Born of blood of Uranus, kill those who kill family members
Olympians
Offspring of Rhea and Kronos, eaten by Kronos, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus
Rhea
Tricks Kronos by giving him a rock instead of Zeus and tricks Kronos to vomit the others up
Titanomachy
Battle Olympians vs Titans, Titans thrown into Tartaros
Who rules in the end?
Zeus and Hera
Themes
generational conflict
fathers stop birth
mothers/women instigate rebellion
Women are bad
Who did Prometheus side with?
Olympians
What did Prometheus have?
Foresight
Why do humans not eat with gods?
Prometheus tricked Zeus, so Zeus decides men cannot eat with the gods
What did Prometheus give man?
fire
Creation of woman
Punishment for giving man fire, Pandora (as named in other myths) built by Hephaistos and Athena, given to man as a trick, she open the box with all evil
