A. General
As aetiological accounts, the Greek anthropogony myths answer the question of the origin of humanity only technically, as a rule, and not also teleologically as do the corresponding oriental myths, which define the human being as the servant of the gods (thus Pl. Symp. 190c-d, cf. [1. 261 f.]). The type of anthropogony encompasses a three-part typology [2. 16; 29]: emersio (sprouting up out of the earth), formatio (formation by a creator god), sacrificatio (anthropogony from…