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Creation

Creation. Versions of Creation. Homer (ca. 700BCE) Hesiod (ca. 650 BCE) Works and Days Theogony ( theos “god” + gon “creation”) Ovid (43BC-18AD).

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Creation

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  1. Creation

  2. Versions of Creation • Homer (ca. 700BCE) • Hesiod (ca. 650 BCE) • Works and Days • Theogony (theos “god” + gon “creation”) • Ovid (43BC-18AD)

  3. “Very first of all Chaos came into being, but then wide-bosomed Gaia, secure foundation of all forever, and dark Tartarus in the depth of the broad land and Eros, the most beautiful of all the immortal gods, who loosens the limbs and overwhelms judgment and wise counsel in the breast of gods and all humans. From Chaos, Erebus, and black Night came into being; but from Night were born Aether and Day, whom Night bore when she became pregnant after mingling in love with Erebus.

  4. Gaia (earth) • Progenetrix • Uranus/Ouranos(heaven) Gaia + Uranus - Titans - Rhea - Themis - Cronus - Cyclopes “orb eyed” (not the Cyclops like Polyphemus) - hekatonchires “hundred handers” Gaia arising out of the earth, 5th century, Athenian

  5. The Titans Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus Red= know Green= be familiar with

  6. Hyperion and Helius/Sol • Hyperion- sun • Helius- sun • Selene- Moon • Eos- Dawn Eos, 5th century Helius, 5th c.

  7. Phäethon

  8. Selene and Endymion Endymion Sarcophagus, 3rd AD, Roman Selene, 3rd century AD, Roman

  9. Eos and Tithonus Attic, 470-460 Attic, 470-460

  10. Cronus/Saturnus and Erinyes (furies) The Remore of Orestes, William Bouguereau, 1862 The mutilation of Uranus by Saturn, Vasari

  11. Birth of Aphrodite “The Birth of Venus”, Botticelli, 1486 “Ludovisi Throne”, 460 BCE

  12. Rhea offering stone to Cronus, 160AD Roman copy of Greek original Saturn Devouring His Son, Rubens, 1636 Saturn Devouring His Children, Francisco Goya, 1823

  13. Mt. Lykaion

  14. Interpretation of these myths • Allegories of nature • Feminism • Structuralism • Psychoanalytical • Etiological The Ancient Days, William Blake, 1794

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