CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sparagmos, Hubris, Tiresias
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Varied accounts (cid:498)o (eaven-born, in-sewn god, some say you were born in dracanum, while others. Phoenicia, near the streams of egypt(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:887)(cid:882)-51) say windy icarus, or naxos, and others say it was by the deep-eddying river alpheus that pregnant semele bore you to zeus, who loves thunder. And others yet, lord, say you were born in thebes. The father of men and gods gave birth to you remote from men and secretly from white-armed hera. There is a certain nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in. Zeus and persephone (daughter of demeter & queen of the underworld) lions, leopards not from here, and neither is dionysus. Born out of the thigh of zeus. Zeus places unborn child in his thigh (cid:498)ask zeus to reveal his true divinity(cid:499) Cannot be raised in olympus due to (era(cid:495)s wrath (cid:498)thrice-born(cid:499)