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Monday, July 4, 2011

MY SPECIAL ENEMY

Zeus's special enemy is Typh(a)on (Hesiod, Theogony 306), or Typhoeus (820-80 - the joints in Hesiod's text show rather badly). This monster shows up after the Titanomachy, embodying disorder and unintelligibility in his physique: 100 heads, which quite apart from other disagreeable aspects (snakiness), pour out a confusion of voices, between god-talk and bellowing bull (Hesiod, 831f)

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