Recap: Chronos VS. Uranus –Uranus prevented birth (?) of offspring. Didn’t want to pass on...

Recap: Chronos VS. Uranus

– Uranus prevented birth (?) of offspring. Didn’t want to pass on power. Prevented Gaia from birthing them. She creates special new material and makes a sickle from it. When Uranus comes to her, Chronos ambushes and castrates him.

– From blood borne:• ERINYES – furies• GIANTS• ASH TREE NYMPHS• AND APHRODITE

• Children of the Titans (aside from Chronos).

– Theia + Hyperion Helius (the sun), Eos (the dawn) and Selene (the moon)

– Phoebe + Coeus Leto & Asteria– Oceanus + Tethys all the 3,000 rivers,

each with a (normaly male) god, and 3,000 female Oceanids.

Rule of the Titans• Chronos – became 1st king of the world• Wife = sister Rhea• Told by parents would be overthrown by one of

his own children• Swallowed them whole as they emerged from

womb. These would be the original Olympians:– Hestia– Demeter– Hera– Hades– Poseidon– Zeus

• Rhea not happy• Final pregnancy - Zeus

– Advice from Gaea and Uranus –– Send her to Crete to give birth– Hides him in cave– Brought up by nymphs on milk from goat

AMALTHEA or AMALTHEIA and honey from bee MELISSA, crying drowned out by clashing cymbals OR spears banged on shields of CORYBANTES ‘whirlers’(?)also called CURETES ‘young men’ or warriors.

– Rhea returned with stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, which Chronos swallowed.

The Return of Zeus

Hesiod – Zeus eventually returned and forced chronos to vomit up other children (and the stone).

– Version1: emetic prepared by Rhea and delivered by Zeus in the guise of a cup-bearer.

– Some versions: Oceanid METIS ‘cleverness’ prepared and delivered the emetic.

– Sacred stone displayed at Apollo’s shrine in Delphi. Conical + covered with carvings. The OMPHALOS, ‘navel.’ Believed to be original ‘Zeus-stone’ vomited up by Chronos.

• Zeus became the king of the gods, took up abode on Mt. Olympus

TITANOMACHY

ATLAS

TYPHOEUS - TYPHONOMACHY

• GAEA + TARTARUS • TYPHOEUS also called TYPHON

• HERMES

Zeus & METIS – birth of ATHENA

GIGANTOMACHY