CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cup-Bearer, Chariot Racing, Ichor
4 Aug 2016
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Class 5: zeus, hera, poseidon, hades, demeter, hestia. By the classical age, there was a sense of a pantheon of 12 gods. There are 1 or 2 gods of this pantheon that may change according to authors, but the number stays the same. Can change their appearances, and can sometimes transform into animals. They dwell on mount olympus, the highest mountain in greece. They do not eat bread like humans or drink wine, they eat ambrosia that they can also use as a cosmetic. Children of the gods are fed ambrosia instead of their mother"s milk. Have ichor in their veins instead of blood, a substance that flows only in the blood of immortals. Gods need mortals in the sense that they enjoy the attention of mortals. Strongest of the gods, can challenge them and force most other gods to do his will except aphrodite.
