What ideas did the ANCIENT GREEKS have for origin of life?? Help!!!

Question

What were their ideas on how life came to be??!!

Help please!

Thanks.

Answer 1

oooo that goes back before war. And that brings many of unorthodox thought.

BUT..... I think, as with all ancient thought, life originated from life.

  

Answer 2

i think you will find these most interesting:

http://www.crystalinks.com/greekscience....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mytho...

http://www.iwebquest.com/greece/greekhot...

http://library.thinkquest.org/28111/newp...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_gre...

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greek myth explains the origins of the world and details the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and other mythological creatures.

2 poems by Homer's near contemporary Hesiod, the Theogony and the Works and Days, contain accounts of the genesis of the world, the succession of divine rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial practices.

"Myths of origin" or "creation myths" represent an attempt to render the universe comprehensible in human terms and explain the origin of the world.

the most widely accepted account of beginning of things as reported by Hesiod's Theogony, starts with Chaos, a yawning nothingness.

out of the void emerged Ge or Gaia (the Earth) and some other primary divine beings: Eros (Love), the Abyss (the Tartarus), and the Erebus.

without male assistance Gaia gave birth to Uranus (the Sky) who then fertilized her.

from that union were born, first, the Titans: six males and six females (Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne, Phoebe and Tethys, and Cronus); then the one-eyed Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires or Hundred-Handers.

Cronus ("the wily, youngest and most terrible of [Gaia's] children")castrated his father and became the ruler of the gods with his sister-wife Rhea as his consort and the other Titans became his court.

this motif of father/son conflict was repeated when Cronus was confronted by his son, Zeus. Zeus, persuaded by his mother, challenged him to war for the kingship of the gods.

at last, with the help of the Cyclopes, (whom Zeus freed from Tartarus), Zeus and his siblings were victorious, while Cronus and the Titans were hurled down to imprisonment in Tartarus.

... so the earth (with everything on it!) came to be at one point..

-if you look closely at the topic, from all angles, you ll find a series of inconstancies -

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Answer 3

basically there where the titans. these where the fathers of the gods. to be specific chronos was the father of zeus and hera and a few other gods. chronos had heard a prophesy (can't remember who from) that one of his children would overthrow him. so he swallowed all of them at birth except zeus. his mother gave chronos a stone in babies swaddling that he swallowed and she put zeus in a cave and had some nymphs look after him. anyway zeus grew up and made his father puke up all of his brothers and sisters and they made war on the titans. zeus finally destroyed most of them with a lightening bolt and from the ashes arose man.