CLASSIC 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Born Naked, Dominate, Capitoline Venus
4 Oct 2018
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Lust isn"t same as love, it is usually desire. If you lust after someone you wanna fuck. Begin from physical of aphrodite, slowly moving to supernatural world. Collected around the genitals of uranus either on cythera or on cyprus. Two birth accounts, one in homer"s iliad (zeus and dione), and other in hesiods. Theogony (foam collecting around uranus genitals on the sea). - aphrodite pandemos and aphrodite ourania, profane and sacred love. Violence of sexual desire goes back to when cronus castrated his father. Uranian (heavenly) version of aphrodite is associated with her coming out of foam from uranus"s genitals. Sacred love, love of god, love of ideas. Other version is associated with pandemos aphrodite (pandemos = for all people). The secular love, physical love, lower level of level. Small annoying child that hits u with arrows, makes you in love. Erotes is generic name standing for eros, pothos, himeros kids. Eros means lust pothos means longing, himeros means desire.
