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The Olympian Gods

The Olympian Gods. A ccording to H esiod’s T heogony. Hesiod begins the world with χαος (chaos). Although we may think of chaos as an unorganized, chaotic mess, Hesiod’s notion of chaos is an empty chasm or void.

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The Olympian Gods

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  1. The Olympian Gods According to Hesiod’s Theogony

  2. Hesiod begins the world with χαος (chaos). Although we may think of chaos as an unorganized, chaotic mess, Hesiod’s notion of chaos is an empty chasm or void. • Beginning with this chaos, Hesiod gives order to the universe. This κοσμος (cosmos), arranges the world into heaven, earth, and underworld. • Gaea = Earth • Tartarus = Underworld • Eros = Love • Gaea gives birth to Ouranos = Heaven

  3. Gaea and Ouranos have ten children, but with one problem: Ouranos will not let Gaea give birth to her children. Earth and Sky are stuck together as one and Gaea’s children (the Titans) have no room to get out. Gaea wields a sickle which her son Cronos takes. Cronos castrates his father Ouranos, and Ouranos’ genitals fall into the sea.

  4. The blood from Ouranos’ genitals produces the giants and the Furies (Erinyes) τα μηδεα

  5. The remnants float on the surface of the sea, foaming and producing Aphrodite

  6. Meanwhile. . . Cronos and his sister Rhea spend some quality time together. Rhea gives birth to six children, five of which Cronos immediately eats up. Rhea gives birth to a sixth child but she and Gaea steal him away to an island, giving Cronos a stone swaddled in a blanket instead. Cronos vomits up the rest of his children.

  7. The six children of Rhea and Cronos are the: Olympian Gods Hestia Demeter Hera Hades Poseidon Zeus

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