Analysis Of How The World And Mankind Were Created By Edith Hamilton

The section I read was How the World and Mankind Were Created by Edith Hamilton. It starts off with a brief explanation like the rest of the book does with sources and inside this section a variety of different stories. Chapter III’s context comes mainly from Hesiod, a greek poet with myths about the beginning of everything.
The premise of my selected reading discusses how the world and mankind were created. The first story starts off with saying before the gods there was Chaos and unexplainably two children were born, Night and Erebus. From there Love was born which created light with its companion radiant Day. Next, was the creation of the Earth which is left unexplained and the first creatures later appearing, Mother Earth and Father Heaven. Monsters showed up referred to as the Cyclops known for having one eye and lastly came the Titans in large quantities being rather large and superior in strength. Greeks implied that Heaven was a poor father and hated things with a hundred hands …show more content…
They first made the golden race who were mortals living like gods without sorrow of heart rich in flocks and beloved by the gods after they were gone they became pure spirits. The second race of silver was more inferior compared to the first. They had little intelligence and couldn’t stop injuring each other and like the golden race they passed away but their spirits didn’t live on after. Next was the brass race they were terrible men, immensely strong and lovers of war and violence and completely destroyed by their own hands. Following them was a heroic race who fought glorious wars and going on adventures talked about through the ages. The fifth race which is the iron race lived in evil times and their nature had much of evil though they never rest from toil and sorrow and as the generations pass they get worse. When no man is angry any more, Zeus will destroy them. These two stories where overall my favorite from Chapter