Hundred Handers (Cottos, Briareos,and Gyges) belong to previous ... Zeus fights his worst enemy, Typhaon (Typhoios) The GIGANTOMACHY: Giants versus Olympians ...
Before becoming the ruler of heaven, Zeus had to defeat his predecessor Cronus and the Titan. In this war, the Titanomachy (the War in which the Titans fought Zeus) ...
Greeks were a much older civilization (height of their civilization was ... Eros = love as creative energy/force (Cupid) Highlights from the Theogony (cont'd) ...
Theo gone = 'birth of the gods' Cosmogony: birth of the ... Demeter (Persephone) Mnemosyne (Muses) Leto (Apollo and Artemis) Hera (Ares, Hebe, Eileithyia) ...
Aristotle, Poetics 1459a Compared with all other poets Homer may seem divinely ... me with a prize of honour (geras) forthwith, lest I alone of the Argives be ...
Pandora 'All-Gift' Consider Hesiod's two accounts. Listen to Barbara McBride-Smith's rendition. ... of the Pandora story? Pandora Story What's going ...
Creation Myths Hesiod s Theogony and Ovid s Metamorphoses Allen Romano aromano@uchicago.edu background: Muses Possibly humorous title small text small text small ...
Catalog of Women (birth stories of the heroes, continuation of the Theogony) ... Kronos succeeds his father Ouranos: Castration of Ouranos, birth of Aphrodite ...
Before becoming the ruler of heaven, Zeus had to defeat his predecessor Cronus ... Prometheus 2 is the name of a Boeotian to whom Demeter entrusted something. ...
Traditional stories assumed written form. Changes in written vs. oral literature ... Uranus's castration. Cronus sneaks up with a sickle after sex takes place ...
Poems of the Epic Cycle. Theogony Titanomachy. Oedipodia Thebais. Epigoni ... twenty days; and moreover they gave one to the other fair gifts of friendship. ...