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Class notes Hesiod Theogony 30 pages 9780872201798
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These 30 pages of notes on the Theogony offer a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the text, highlighting its major themes and key elements. They provide a clear and concise summary of the divine genealogy and the creation of the universe, as well as an examination of the relationships between ...

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HESIOD

THEOGONY

,Contents
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................... 3
GREGORIAN CALENDAR....................................................................................................................................... 3
AGES............................................................................................................................................................................... 4
HESIOD ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
WHAT IS A MYTH? ................................................................................................................................................ 6
THEOGONY ............................................................................................................................................................... 7
SOME IMPORTAN GODS FROM THEOGONY (GLOSSARY) .................................................................... 7
SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................................... 16
IN DEPTH SUMMARY............................................................................................................................................. 17
0. Prologue .......................................................................................................................................... 17
I. Primordial Deities .......................................................................................................................... 17
II. Titans lead by Kronos (12 Titans, including Kronos) ................................................................ 19
III. Olympians (Zeus & the gods he reigns with & over) ............................................................21
ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................................................................. 23
QUESTIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 30

, INTRODUCTION
The works we are studying in this course span about 700 years, from about 650 B.C.E (seventh
century before the Common Era) to about 70 C.E (the first century of the Common Era)

GREGORIAN CALENDAR
900-801 700-601 500-401 300-201 100-1 101-200

1000-901 800-701 600-501 400-301 200-101 1-100 201-300

10th 9th 8th 7th 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st 1st 2nd 3rd
BEFORE COMMON ERA COMMON ERA

Before Common Era

10th century 1000-901
9th century 900-801
8th century 800-701
7th century 700-601
6th century 600-501
5th century 500-401
4th century 400-301
3rd century 300-201
2nd century 200-101
1st century 100-1

Common Era

1st century 1-100
2nd century 101-200
3rd century 201-300

Additional notes
- There is no year zero in the Gregorian Calendar
- The event that divides B.C.E from C.E is traditionally, the birth of Jesus
(although it is said he was born during the reign of Herod, who died in 4
B.C.E)
o Gregorian calendar: Christian calendar

, AGES

Roman history can closely be divided into 4 periods of ages:
1. The Archaic Age (800-480 B.C.E)
*480: The Greeks defeat the Persians in the second Persian invasion of Greece
o Homer/Hesiod ~ 750-650

2. The Classical Age (480-323 B.C.E)
*323: The death of Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon and military general who
conquered much of the known world
o Aeschylus ~525-456
o Plato ~427-347
o Sophocles ~496-406
o Euripides ~484-406
o Socrates ~470-399

3. The Hellenistic Age (323-31 B.C.E)
*31: The victory of Octavian (Augustus) in the battle of Actium, marking the beginning
of Augustus’s rule as the first emperor of Rome
o Romans sack Corinth 146
o Romans sack Athens in 86

4. The Age of the Roman Empire (31 B.C.E-476 C.E)
o Virgil 70-19
o Livy 59 BCE-17CE
o Gospels ~60-90 CE

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