Hesiod, Ouranos, Kronos, and the Emasculation at the Beginning of Time

Tralau, Johan

doi:10.1353/clw.2018.0036

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“… 7 Although not dealing with spatial material per se, a similar conclusion regarding internal tensions and contradictions is affirmed by Tralau (2018) 461 and n. 4.…”

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Reconsidering the Tartarean Geography of theIliad: Traces of a Far-Away Tartarus and the Narrative Significance of Localisation

Gordon

2022

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This paper argues for a novel conception of Iliadic Tartarus as a fluid liminal space which includes a superterranean context alongside its (traditionally realised) subterranean localisation. A close reading of Iliad 8.477–81 reveals traces of superterranean imagery which, alongside the traditional subterranean reading of 8.13–6 and 14.198–311, allows for the identification of a fluid, dual-model of Tartarean space within the background of the poem. Further, grounded in recent developments regarding dual localisation within Homeric narrative, this paper explores how localisation can reflect narrative and/or thematic concerns, rather than exclusively denoting spatial-physical realities. Thus, the use of geographical imagery within the three Tartarean passages is examined for its narrative/thematic significance, considering themes such as the hierarchy of the gods and narrative developments such as the relocation of Zeus’ positioning within the larger cosmos. The identification of such nuances, in turn, provides a precedent for retaining ‘conflicting’ or fluid geographical space(s) within the narrative despite the ‘contradictions’ that they embody.

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“… 7 Although not dealing with spatial material per se, a similar conclusion regarding internal tensions and contradictions is affirmed by Tralau (2018) 461 and n. 4.…”

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Reconsidering the Tartarean Geography of theIliad: Traces of a Far-Away Tartarus and the Narrative Significance of Localisation

Gordon

2022

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The Emergence of the World in Early Greek Theogonies from Hesiod to Acusilaus

Santamaría

2021

Universal- Und Kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History

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The Birth of Time and Hesiod’s “Emotional Cosmos”. A Multiverse Approach amid Philosophical Instances and Philological Roots

Coco

2022

Rev. Synth.

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In his essay From Logos to Mythos, I republished on the twentieth anniversary of its first publication, Most saw in the release of Creuzer’s Symbolik und Mythologie the moment when philology distanced itself from philosophy “refraining strictly from any discussion of what the Greek myths could mean for us, and instead concentrating […] into what the Greek myths could have meant for the Greeks”. This essay analyses the case study offered by the mythological dyad Kronos (Κρόνος) and Chronos (Χρόνος). It highlights some elements that place these two figures at a distance on the philological level but closer on the philosophical one. The essay encourages a dialogue between philological rigour and philosophical use of myth: myth, in its prolificity, is eloquent in every age and a careful understanding of what it meant to the Greeks in its time does not necessarily imply giving up understanding what it may mean to us today.

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Hesiod, Ouranos, Kronos, and the Emasculation at the Beginning of Time

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Reconsidering the Tartarean Geography of theIliad: Traces of a Far-Away Tartarus and the Narrative Significance of Localisation

Reconsidering the Tartarean Geography of theIliad: Traces of a Far-Away Tartarus and the Narrative Significance of Localisation

The Emergence of the World in Early Greek Theogonies from Hesiod to Acusilaus

The Birth of Time and Hesiod’s “Emotional Cosmos”. A Multiverse Approach amid Philosophical Instances and Philological Roots

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