ENGL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aphrodite Urania, Aphrodite Pandemos, Horae
19 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Genitals fell into the sea, foam washed her up onto cyprus. No physical union between man and woman, she is pure love. Aphrodite pandemos (of all the people/common: represents married love and positive aspects of physical love, zeus and dione, goddess of physical attraction and procreation. The graces > personifications of aspects of beauty. The horae (hours: dress her up before she goes out to make her conquests, seasons and passage of time, found her, attended her when she was born, clothes and put jewelry on her, took her to olympus. Pygmalion is a young man who lived in cyprus. Women refused to say aphrodite was a goddess. Pygmalion was repulsed, stayed an unmarried virgin. Made himself a perfect woman out of ivory, fell in love with it as if she was real. Went to a festival for aphrodite, made a good sacrifice and prayed to her.
