CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Etiology, Homeric Hymns, Actaeon
11 Mar 2013
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Always has her war gear, her helmet, shield, spear. Early arrival in greece (linear b tablets) Symbols: owl, serpent (at feet, on shield), aegis (goat skin pad) Norn from zeus" head deification of wisdom. Teacher of arts weaving: carpentry (shipbuilding jason"s argo, taming and training of horses. Goddess of war: spear, helmet, shield: on shield, aegis, gordon"s head. Glaukopis" grey/keen/owl-eyed": pallas athena tritogenia (palladium) odysseus, diomedes. Goddess of activities of mental skill (*men-) Myths: niobe (queen of thebes, mother of many children. Niobe ridicules women who went to pay tribute to leto who is apollo and artemis" mother. Niobe"s sons and artemis slays all of niobe"s daughters with their arrows. Crying her eyes out, zeus pities niobe and transforms her into a rock: actaeon (was born to a good family; is a hunter and would go through the woods with his pack of hounds. No longer a virgin, callisto hides the fact from.
