¿Caníbales, dioses y reyes? Acerca del canibalismo y los conflictos divinos en la Teogonía (453-473 y 886-900)

Abstract

Anthropophagy has a major role in Greek imaginary as a literary trope primarily used for thinking and representing abhorrent behaviours and the most extremes forms of cultural Otherness. It is, then, very interesting to find in some mythological narratives the same gods that take care of justice among the humans practicing activities that share some sort of symbolic parallelism with it as a tool for achieving or consolidating their own position in the universe. In this article I will explore the deeper implications of the allelogaphic acts committed by Kronos against its own progeny and the later one committed by Zeus against Metis in Hesiod´s Theogony.