CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anchises, Olm, Cupid
17 Oct 2016
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In some accounts, the boar was actually sent by artemis as revenge for hippolytus. Zeus was constantly annoyed by aphrodite"s boasts about her conquests: she would boast that she never fell in love with a mortal, sees falling in love with mortals and having mortal children as something below her. They have intercourse and aphrodite is impregnated: makes him swear not to reveal this union and reveal the existence of the child, he reveals, when drunk one night, that he had sex with aphrodite. Zeus is enraged that aphrodite tried to hide this from him: an account where he throws a thunderbolt in rage and kills anchises, another where aphrodite deflects the bolt. For the romans, anchises is very important, because supposedly the baby that was born to him and aphrodite is their ancestor. Eros: portrayed sometimes as aphrodite"s son, as a young man, represents male homosexuality and the power of love.
