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39 Cards in this Set
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Hesiod of Ascrae
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His world:
Greece at about 700 BCE He was a singer who performed at religious festivals His contemporary: Homer |
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HHesiod...The poet’s initiation by
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the Muse
His Poems: Theogony (“How the Gods Came into Being”) Works and Days |
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Theo-gony =
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the Coming-into-Being of the Gods?: mythology
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Cosmo-gony =
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the Coming-into-Being of the World?: mythology or science
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Chaos =
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the great open space
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Gaia =
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Earth (“who carries Olympus”
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Eros =
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Love as Sexual Drive (“the most beautiful among the gods”
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The Family of Chaos:
The Children |
Male Erebos, ‘Dark Underworld’
Female Night |
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The Grandchildren Chaos
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Night’s children: Death, Sleep, Censure, Strife etc.
Male Aether ‘Divine Light and Fire’ Female Day |
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Earths Asexual Progeny
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Male Uranos, ‘Sky’
The Mountains Male Pontos, ‘Sea’ |
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Earth’s and Uranos’ Sexual Progeny
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Oceanus, ‘Ocean’
The Titans |
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The Titans
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Koios, Kreios, Hyperion, Iapetos
Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoibe, Thetys Cronus, her youngest son |
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The monster children of Earth and Sky
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Cyclopes, the one-eyed makers of lightning
The 100-Handers |
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Birth of Aphrodite (aphros = ‘foam’) from
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Uranos’ genitals
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Allegory = “saying something else” (allos “other, different” + agoreuo “I say”)
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Cronus (greek Kronos) > greek chronos “time
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Hesiod of Ascrae
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His world:
Greece at about 700 BCE He was a singer who performed at religious festivals His contemporary: Homer |
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HHesiod...The poet’s initiation by
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the Muse
His Poems: Theogony (“How the Gods Came into Being”) Works and Days |
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Theo-gony =
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the Coming-into-Being of the Gods?: mythology
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Cosmo-gony =
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the Coming-into-Being of the World?: mythology or science
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Chaos =
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the great open space
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Gaia =
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Earth (“who carries Olympus”
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Eros =
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Love as Sexual Drive (“the most beautiful among the gods”
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The Family of Chaos:
The Children |
Male Erebos, ‘Dark Underworld’
Female Night |
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The Grandchildren Chaos
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Night’s children: Death, Sleep, Censure, Strife etc.
Male Aether ‘Divine Light and Fire’ Female Day |
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Earths Asexual Progeny
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Male Uranos, ‘Sky’
The Mountains Male Pontos, ‘Sea’ |
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Time is created by the movements of the sky, but becomes something stronger.
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Chronus eats children
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Central Mytheme = Mythical Theme:The separation of Earth and Sky
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Casration of Uranus
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Cronus and Rhea > Olympians of the First Generation
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Hestia, Demeter, Hera
Hades, Poseidon, Zeus |
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The youngest son’s revenge:
Zeus' revenge |
The father is deposed and either put in jail or sent into exile
The stone is kept as a Victory Memorial in Delphi |
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What comes from castration
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Giants
Erinyes, goddesses of revenge Meliai, Tree nymphsAphrodite, Born from Foam? |
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Rhea
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Mother of Gods
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The Offspring of Night
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Hypnus and Thanatus, Sleep and Death ??Old Age ?Strife ?Deception? and other negative forces as old as the world
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The offspring of Pontus
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Rivers ? ?Water nymphs ? ?Sea monsters ? ?Oceanids
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3 daughters of Rhea and Chronus
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Hestia, Demeter, Hera
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3 sons of Rhea and Chronus
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Zeus,Hades, Poiseden
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Hyperions children
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Sun(Helious), Moon (Selene)Dawn (Eos)
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Zeus and Hera
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The Olympians
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Cronus and Rhea
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The Titans
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Gaia and Uranus
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Premiveal beings
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