Theogony Flashcards
What is the Theogony?
The Theogony is the story of the creation and the 3 generations of gods ( Gods, Age of Titans, Age of Olympus)
How did Hesiod portray the relationship between the sons and fathers in the theogony?
Fathers would always want to maintain power and would oppress the sons that would overthrow them. The sons would strive to overthrow the fathers in order to save the family from their dads overbearingness.
How does the betrayal of father vs son reflect on greek society?
This tale tells about deep social anxieties with fathers neglecting to give away power as they age which can cause generational conflict.
What does the word ‘Theogony’ mean?
Its a compound word of Theos and genos. Theos means god and Genos means genes. Thegony means the genealogy of the gods
What does the act of Kronos castrating his father represent?
represents Kronos throwing away his fathers masculinity and power.
What was the mothers role in the theogony?
The role of mothers was the welfare of the family. They would plot and scheme to overthrow the overbearing father. However, they never did the actions themselves and always relied on their sons.
How does the theogony reflect the perspective of women within Ancient Greek society?
Women will plot behind your back instead of fighting you head on likes men.
How does Zeus maintain his power forever?
Zeus consumes his wife, Metis, to eliminate the prophecy of Metis children overthrowing their father. In other words, Zeus’ removes the wife aspect so he won’t ever have kids to overthrow him.
Why couldn’t Ancient Greek men eliminate the wife aspect to maintain their power?
Fathers who don’t have wives can’t have kids. Thus men cannot live in their old age as no one can support them.
Who was Pandora?
Pandora, the first human women, was used to punish men as a result of Prometheus giving fire to mankind. She’s described as evil due to her beautiful appearance yet cunning nature Pandora opens the box containing all evils of man and dooms humanity.
How did Pandora represent Hesoid’s thoughts on women?
The tale of pandora depicts the first women as an evil being that exists to lure in men and doom them. Hesoid further says that women eat the work of men and exist to look after children due to the sins of their ancient ancestor.
