This passage which describes the moments when Demeter was describing herself as "Doso", and also connecting with last unit's reading where we read about Mercurius portraying as Sosia makes me think that these mythological gods like to impersonate as others. Is this because they see this as an opportunity to conjugate different personality traits and try new identity or roles? Or perhaps it's to test those around her for character and to educate the differences between good and the bad for back then.

This part of the text demonstrates how prominent gender differences are and how women were unfavourably treated by men in that universe and era. It seems like their main role was to process birth and essentially be a machine that takes input commands in order to spit out output results. Another thing I noticed is that Demeter is depicted to be proud of her nurturing ability and the way this text is articulated in that specific way, in my opinion implies that it's related to her perception of a women's self worth or value (the ability to care for one another)

If Prometheus really lives up to his name of aforethought and is cautious with his moves,

1. Why is he supposedly prideful and boasting recklessly?
2. Is adding the "miseries on top of miseries" intentional in order to change the future of his fate?

I picked this text from Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound to do an annotation on because this one specifically, reminds me of how rulers usually like to operate and manage their underlings, which is in a cruel and ruthless way. There is a saying that you need to be tough and heartless in order to succeed as a tyrant. Likewise, I interpreted it as, if you do not listen to Zeus's orders as his ally then you will be his foe and one day be in the same position as Prometheus according to the text. Furthermore, a question I have for Prometheus is that if he is the God of forethought, then why is he not prepared and allowed himself to be in such a bad position, to be punished by Zeus? Perhaps is it because it was part of his plan to be punished for committing a sin to help the mortal humans of mankind?

In this text from Hesiod, Works and Days, when it mentioned diseases afflicting people, it reminded me of this COVID-19 pandemic, and how the virus just attacks people arbitrarily. I made that connection which was also interesting because it also mentioned earlier that the only thing that stayed in that jar that the evil escaped from was hope Let's hope that is true.

This part of the text makes me think of how opposite elements are sometimes put together in order to value or appreciate one another. For example, there is darkness without light, and light without darkness. You can only appreciate and come to know what light is when you experience darkness. What does the speaker mean exactly, when they say he has harmonized all the good with the bad into one? I can only think of the balance of yin/yang from Chinese Philosophy.

This text reminds me of a situation where a powerful and wealthy father of two daughters wants to retire and settle down. But before that happens, he needs to find a worthy successor for his position. However, his daughters are fighting for their father's resources so they each look for a valuable husband with good genes that suits what the grandfather is looking for. In the end, both daughters gave birth to one child and the mother of the son got her father's blessing over the mother of the daughter. This scene that I just described was depicted from a show, and it's clear that the motive behind both the daughter's action is to claim money/status. I wonder if Gaia's intentions are in that same direction. Is she trying to be a dominant figure in order to gain validation or is there something more to this? In other words, what is her reason for wanting to overthrow everyone else --> creating a powerful child?

In my opinion, it's unlikely that Zeus claimed the throne in a justly and customary manner, and more likely that he was judged to be worthy, because when you're in a position of great power, it also comes with great responsibility. I'm sure they wouldn't just "pass" this position due to family linkage with Cronus without some proof of qualifications. Furthermore, Cronus probably never intended to lose his powerful spot in the first place, so there must be some incentive reason for how everything came to be and ended in this way. As a result, this leads me to my question; Who ordered the oracle to Cronus and demand he give up his kingship position to his son Zeus? (If we just assumed hypothetically, that this is the correct myth as to what happened)