CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hecate, Homeric Hymns, Triptolemus
26 Feb 2016
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Hera (anthea): hera represents women in their legal and societal roles: Flowers represent bridal and virginity, and availability (persephone, picking flowers was available for the taking and ready for womanhood and marriage) Youth: hera and her daughter hebe (youth, and attractive beauty) Hera is something between a young marriageable woman, and a queenly figure, because she can renew her virginity. She is simultaneously a virgin, a marriageable woman and a mother. Kanathos: a yearly ritual at argos that celebrated the renewal of hera"s virginity. Childbirth/eileithyia: her daughter, eileithyia oversees the moment of birth, and is at every moment of birth. She also has the ability to stop childbirth. She acts independently, but still obeys her mother. Hephaestus: hera"s son through parthenogenesis, he is defective, he is lame. Hera is beautiful, and has would-be lovers : Porphyrion, a giant who lusted after hera, and wanted to overthrow zeus. Ephialtes, another giant, fell in love with hera.
