CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Pomegranate, Metanira, Pomegranate
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Lecture six- january 27th 2016 - week three. It is hard to tell zeus and poseidon apart in art. Rape of persephone: persephone was picking flowers, which is symbolic of loss of virginity. It is symbolic of the stage between childhood and adulthood. It is a narcissus flower that attracts her, zeus attracts her to it. It is a trap: zeus arranged her marriage with hades, it is typical for the father to arrange the marriage. Demeter had no say: persephone picks the flower and the earth opens up. Hades pops up and snatches her: demeter hears her daughter drying but does not know what is happening, she goes into mourning in trying to find her daughter. She doesn"t eat the food of the gods and searches for nine days: hecate heard what happened but didn"t see. Helios, however did: demeter goes to helios and he tells her what happened.
