Answer the questions below in a reflective essay. Cannot be plagiarised as I have to submit through turnitin. In Hesiod’s Theogony, Gaia, the female Earth, is the primal creative power but the narrative describes a process in which the female is increasingly eclipsed by, and subordinate, to the male. Discuss. Compare and contrast the birth story of two or more of the Olympian Gods, and reflect on how these narratives anticipate their particular powers and nature. Very often the Olympian gods are coupled together to emphasise their particular characteristics and what they represent (eg Dionysus and Apollo, but there are others). Bearing this in mind, take two gods and compare and contrast their characteristics in Greek myth. Demeter has a very limited mythology other than the story of Persephones rape by Hades, as told in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. What light does this hymn shed on the politics of Olympus and on Demeter as a goddess?
