CLASSICS 2B03 Lecture 1: Artemis and Aphrodite – September 26.docx
3 Dec 2014
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Goddess of love and sexuality is multifaceted: beautiful, revered, dangerous, inconstant. Eros elemental, pervasive, passionate: impulsive. Swiftly through smyrna she urges her chariot : from izmir turkey to greece, ephesus associated city (where her temple is, rural southern greece. Born of leto: stag as sacred animal, most sporty of all goddesses. I sing of artemis, whose shafts are made of gold, who cheers on the hounds the pure virgin, shooter of stags, she who delights in archery, sister to apollo with the gold sword. Protector of animals: also choose when they are killed in hunt. Moon goddess (diana: goddess of nature, goddess of moon (apollo god of sun) Accompanied by (virgin?) nymphs: has her own entourage, virgin nymphs. Leto weeps for 9 days: apollo targeted the boys and artemis targeted the daughters. Childless, she crouched beside her slaughtered sons, her lifeless daughters, and her husband"s corpse . Cp 80 81: a crime of innocent mistake? .
