CLA 210 Questions and Answers
Hesiod
- wrote the epic poem the Theogony: offers earliest Greek version of genesis. - Genesis - begins with chaos (yawning void)
- out of chaos the universe came into being
- from chaos came Ge, Tartarus, Eros, Erebus, and Night
- creation of man: four ages: silv...
CLA 210 Questions and Answers
Hesiod - answer - wrote the epic poem the Theogony: offers earliest Greek version
of genesis. - Genesis - begins with chaos (yawning void)
- out of chaos the universe came into being
- from chaos came Ge, Tartarus, Eros, Erebus, and Night
- creation of man: four ages: silver, bronze, heroes, iron
Gaia - answer - "Earth and fertility mother"
- came from Chaos
- first conceived deity was a woman
Helius - answer god of the sun; son of Hyperion who was a Titan
- sun gods cross the dome of the sky in a chariot drawn by four horses, descends in the
West into the stream of Oceanus, and sails back East to begin a new day
Eos - answer - (Aurora) goddess of the dawn
- third child of Hyperion, titan
- drives a two horse chariot
- fell in love with mortal Tithonus
- asked for Tithonus to be immortal but did not ask for eternal youth and he grew older
and older
- had a son Memnon, killed by Achilles
Oceanus - answer - titan, stream of Ocean that encircles the disc of the earth in the
early cocept of geography
- father of the many spirits of water and the Oceanids, three thousand daughters and
three thousand sons
Theogony - answer epic poem by Hesiod, describes the Greek version of Genesis
from chaos
Uranus - answer - male sky or heavens
- had lightening and thunder
- marriage to Gaia, earth, was the holy/sacred marriage
- had children with Gaia: 3 Cyclopes, 3 Hecatonchires, 12 Titans
Tithonus - answer - mortal lover of Eos, goddess of the dawn
- Eos asked for his immortality
- did not ask for eternal youth; began to age and shrivel
Titans - answer - 12 brothers and sisters who mate with each other, children of the
sacred marriage of Uranus and Gaia
- Oceanus: stream of Ocean that encircles the disc of the earth
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