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Muse mythology4/18/2023 Ovid divided world’s early history into four ages. Humans were made by Prometheus and got gods’ traits. The sky released stars and gods by itself water and air environments also were divided between fishes and birds. He or she formed earth and created climatic zones. An unnamed god or superior nature decided to give balance to the world and put all elements to direct places. “Land impossible to walk, unnavigable water, lightless air nothing held its shape” (Ovid b. But they were not appropriate for any living thing because of elements’ conflict. The world was not empty – there was land, water and air. His version started with the chaos where all nature elements fought one another. Ovid gave more direct description of the world’s creation. The author did not say more about people’s creation, but readers can mention that Zeus is the father for all kings and “singers and lyre players come from the Muses and far-shooting Apollo” (Hesiod 134). Hesiod also mentioned two other self-created creatures Eros and Tartaros. She gave birth to Ouranos who became Gaia’s lover and father of the Ocean and “Coios, Crios, Hyperion, Iapetos, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Gold-crowned Phoibe, and lovely Tethys” (Hesiod 135). Then Gaia the Earth appeared by herself and created the foundation for other future inhabitants. According to it, Chaos was the first and only thing. The author asks muses to tell him this story. The description of the world’s creation starts from the line 116 in the Hesiod’s poem. They glorified other gods and supernatural creatures, like Athena and Cronos. Hesiod started from the “middle” of the story by the description of “Heliconian Muses, who possess Mount Helicon, high and holy Dance circling the altar of almighty Cronion” (Hesiod 131). However, author showed different styles of description of the worlds’ creation, its first years and relations between gods and humans. These cultures had similar pantheons of Gods, which differed mostly by names, like Venus and Aphrodite. This essay will compare Greek and Roman poet’s Hesiod and Ovid points of view. They depend not only up the culture and country, but up the author. More common mythologies have show less bloody ideas with own features. For example, Scandinavian myths say the world was created from the body of a dead giant. Each nation has own myth about world’s creation and team of gods, spirits or other powers that control it.
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