CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Asteroid Family, Cocytus, Erinyes
12 Dec 2016
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They are not usually considered olympians in spire of the fact that they are children of zeus and hera. Eileithyia and hebe are very much extensions of their mother. Roman lucina is a very popular goddess. She may have been a cretan (minoan) fertility goddess. Hera makes eileithyia stop leto giving birth. Goddesses bribe her to let leto give birth to apollo and. Alcmena is in labour for a week until her maid, galanthis tricks eileithyia. The great hero becomes a god and marries the young pretty goddess. He must ght a battle when is very old. Hebe makes him young for a day. Many minor love stories (pan for example) He wanted to sleep and not age. Super cial beauty appeals to goddesses like selene and eos (hymn to aphrodite) Five children of zeus ( + metis, leto, maia, and hera): The word can be used for the god or his realm.
