CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tithonus, Anchises, Chytri
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Aphrodite/venus born from castrated genitals of ouranos or daughter of zeus and dione. Married to hephaestus sometimes mother of eros. Timai: love, sexual desire, beauty, reproduction (fertility goddess - natural things) symbols: swan, dove, flowers epithets: kytherea (where she goes to kythra), cypriote (cyprus), laughter-loving, lover of smiles. Power over all the gods except for the 3 virgins. Paphos on cyprus (aphrodite"s sanctuary makes her pretty) Anchises on mt. ida (comes disguised as a mortal maiden) Aeneas/aineias (son of aphrodite and ankhises) o. Ganymede (cup bearer) and tros (father of ganymede and suffered a lot, gods gave him special horses bc of his missing son) Gods are upset that aphrodite is making them sleep with mortals. Zeus uses her power against her and makes her fall in love with a mortal. He has the power to do this but when he distributed powers he said he wasnt going to take them but he does against aphrodite.
