CC 303/352: Lecture Outline, September 6, 2001

Reminder: Stanley Lombardo recites Homer: 7:00 PM, Monday, Sept. 10, Jessen Auditorium

I. Content of the Theogony, continued.

• Gaia produces Typhoeus, who is defeated by Zeus
• Zeus's partners

1. Metis (offspring: Athena)
2. Themis (offspring: Horai [Eunomia, Dike, Eirene] and Moirai)
3. Eurynome (offspring: Charites [Graces])
4. Demeter (offspring: Persephone)
5. Mnemosyne (offspring: Muses)
6. Leto (offspring: Apollo and Artemis)
7. Hera (offspring: Hebe, Ares, Eileithyia)

• Other divine offspring

II. Caldwell's Freudian Interpretation of the Theogony

A. Key concepts

• unconscious
• wish-fulfillment
• symbiosis
• individuation
• Oedipus complex

B. Caldwell's explanations of

• Chaos
• Gaia, Tartaros, Eros
• Ouranos and Gaia
• Ouranos and Kronos
• Kronos and Zeus
• Zeus and Metis
• Creation of Women
• Prometheus and Typhoeus (cf. Hephaistos)
• Zeus as idealized son

III. Other possible approaches to the Theogony

• Rationalization
• Allegory
• Aetiology
• Ritual myth school
• Charter myth school
• Vladimir Propp
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
•  Jung

IV. Greek Creation Myths and the Near East: Background

• Sumerians
• Assyrians
• Babylonians
• Hittites
• Hebrews

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