Титаномаха
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В греческой мифологии ( / ˌ i t aɪ t ə ˈ n ə m ə k / ; древнегреческий : : , Ronnized Tanomachia Titan : титаномаха -titte Titan : Tatttle τιτανομαχία . - был десять лет [ 1 ] Серия сражений, сражающихся в древней Фессалии , состоящей из большинства титанов (старшее поколение богов, основанное на горе Отрис ), сражающихся против олимпийцев (молодые поколения, которые пришли на гору Олимп ) и их союзников. Это событие также известно как « Война Титанов» , «Битва за Титаны» , «Битва богов » или « война Титана» . Война была борона, чтобы решить, какое поколение богов будет иметь господство над вселенной; Это закончилось победой для олимпийских богов.
Греки классического возраста знали о нескольких стихах о войне между богами и многими титанами. Доминирующий, и единственный, кто выжил, - это теогония, приписываемая Гесиоду . Титаны также сыграли важную роль в стихах, приписываемых Орфуусу . Хотя выживают только отходы орфических повествований , они демонстрируют отличия от традиции Гесодической.
Conflict among the first gods
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The stage for the Titanomachy was set after the youngest Titan Cronus overthrew his own father, Uranus (Ουρανός, the sky and ruler of the cosmos), with the help of his mother, Gaia (Γαία, the earth).
Uranus drew the enmity of Gaia when he imprisoned six of her children — the three Hecatonchires (giants with 50 heads and 100 arms) and the three Cyclopes (also giants, each with a single eye in the middle of its forehead) — within her womb. Gaia created a great sickle, forged from adamantine, and hid it in a crevice on Mount Othrys. Gaia then proceeded to attempt to convince 12 of her other children from Uranus, who were known as the Titans, to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the adamantine sickle and positioned him in the same crevice that previously held his sickle.
When Uranus met to consort with Gaia on Mount Othrys, Cronus ambushed Uranus, and with the adamantine sickle, sliced off his genitals, casting them across the Mediterranean. After doing so, Cronus freed the imprisoned Hecatonchires and Cyclopes, by slicing open Gaia's womb and promptly imprisoned them in Tartarus. Cronus also quickly imprisoned Uranus deep below Tartarus. In doing this, he became the Ruler of the Titans. But Uranus cursed Cronus so that Cronus's own children would rebel against his rule, just as Cronus had rebelled against his own father. Uranus' blood that had spilled upon the earth gave rise to the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae. From the mixture of blood and semen from his mutilated genitalia, Aphrodite arose from the sea where they landed in Cyprus.
...so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden..."[2]
Cronus took his father's title of ruler of land, sky, and sea. He then secured his power by forcing his siblings to bow down to his will.
Cronus, paranoid of Uranus's curse and fearing the end of his rule, now turned into the tyrant his father Uranus had once been, swallowing each of his children whole as they were born from his sister-wife Rhea. Rhea, who began to resent Cronus, managed to hide her youngest newborn child Zeus, by tricking Cronus into swallowing a magnetite rock, given to her by her mother Gaia, wrapped in a blanket instead. Rhea brought Zeus to a cave in Crete, where he was raised by Amalthea and the Meliae.
Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus masqueraded as Cronus' cupbearer. Once he had been established as a servant of Cronus, the Oceanid Metis gave Zeus a mixture of mustard and wine [citation needed] which would cause Cronus to vomit out his swallowed children, now grown. After freeing his siblings as well as the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes, Zeus led them in rebellion against the Titans.
Zeus and his siblings take over Creation
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Zeus then waged a war against his father with his disgorged brothers and sisters as allies: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. Zeus released the Hecatonchires and the Cyclopes from the earth (where they had been imprisoned by Cronus) and they allied with him as well. The Hecatonchires hurled stones. The Cyclopes forged for Zeus his iconic thunder and lightning, for Poseidon his trident and for Hades a helmet of darkness. Fighting on the other side allied with Cronus were the other Titans with the important exception of Themis and her son Prometheus who allied with Zeus (NB. for Hesiod, Clymene is the mother of Prometheus). Atlas was second in command after Cronus. The war lasted ten years, but eventually Zeus and the other Olympians won. Zeus had the important Titans imprisoned in Tartarus much like Cronus did to his father, and the Hecatonchires were made their guards. Atlas was given the special punishment of holding up the sky. In some accounts, when Zeus became secure in his power he relented and gave the Titans their freedom.[3]
Hyginus relates the Titanomachy differently: "After Hera saw that Epaphus, born of a concubine, ruled such a great kingdom (Egypt), she saw to it that he should be killed while hunting, and encouraged the Titans to drive Zeus from the kingdom and restore it to Cronus (Saturn). When they tried to mount heaven, Zeus with the help of Athena, Apollo, and Artemis, cast them headlong into Tartarus. On Atlas, who had been their leader, he put the vault of the sky; even now he is said to hold up the sky on his shoulders."[4]
The Iliad describes how following their victory, the three brothers divided the world amongst themselves: Zeus was given domain over the sky and the air and was recognized as ruler (also known as the Sky Father). Poseidon was given the sea and all the waters, whereas Hades was given the Underworld, the realm of the dead. Each of the other gods were allotted duties according to the nature and proclivities of each.[5] The earth was left common to all to do as they pleased, even to run counter to one another, unless the brothers (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades) were called to intervene.
Titanomachy, the lost poem
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A somewhat different account of the Titanomachy appeared in a poem that is now lost. The poem was traditionally ascribed to Eumelus of Corinth, a semi-legendary bard of the Bacchiadae ruling family in archaic Corinth,[6] who was treasured as the traditional composer of the Prosodion, the processional anthem of Messenian independence that was performed on Delos.
Even in Antiquity, many authors cited Titanomachia without an author's name. The name of Eumelos was attached to the poem as the only name available.[7] From the very patchy evidence, it seems that "Eumelos"' account of the Titanomachy differed from the surviving account of Hesiod's Theogony at salient points. It was written in the late seventh-century BC at the earliest.[7]
The Titanomachy was divided into two books. The battle of Olympians and Titans was preceded by some sort of theogony, or genealogy of the Primeval Gods, in which, the Byzantine writer John the Lydian remarked,[8] the author of Titanomachy placed the birth of Zeus, not in Crete, but in Lydia, which should signify on Mount Sipylus.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Hesiod, Theogony, 635–7: "So they, with bitter wrath, were fighting continually with one another at that time for ten full years, and the hard strife had no close or end for either side..."
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony; see also Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.435 ff.
- ^ Морфорд, Марк По; Ленардон, Роберт Дж.; Шам, Майкл (2011). Классическая мифология (девятое изд.). Оксфорд: издательство Оксфордского университета. С. 80–82. ISBN 9780195397703 .
- ^ Hyginus, Legends 150 .
- ^ Гомер , Илиада 15.185-195 .
- ^ Bacchiadae были изгнаны тираном Cypselus около 657 г. до н.э.
- ^ Jump up to: а беременный West, ML (2002). « Eumelos»: Коринфский эпический цикл? ». Журнал эллинских исследований . 122 : 109–133. doi : 10.2307/3246207 . JSTOR 3246207 .
- ^ Лидианцы, 4,71 месяца .
Общие источники
[ редактировать ]- Hyginus, Gaius Julius , Fabulae , в «Мифах Гигина» , отредактированный и переведенный Мэри А. Грант, Лоуренс: Университет Канзасской прессы, 1960. Онлайн -версия на топостекст .
- Nonnus , Dionysiaca , том I: книги 1–15 , перевод WHD Rouse , Классическая библиотека Loeb № 344, Кембридж, Массачусетс, издательство Гарвардского университета, 1940 (пересмотренный 1984). ISBN 978-0-674-99379-2 . Онлайн -версия в издательстве Гарвардского университета . Интернет -архив (1940) .