CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eleusinian Mysteries, Homeric Hymns, Cornucopia
16 Feb 2018
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Names underlined in the slides are need to know. Daughter of cronus and rhea, sister of zeus etc. Kore = the girl) by zeus: demeter and persephone often called the two goddesses , persephone is the product of the marriage of earth-goddess and sky-god (common theme: think gaia and uranus) Oversees corn, ripe crops (more generally), famine. Presented in art as a respectable woman, sometimes holding a shaft or sheaf of wheat or a cornucopia. Nearly universal metaphor of earth as female and cultivator as male: very frequently sexualized. Often called the chthonian zeus = zeus of the underworld. Also, called hateful hades because of his association with death: but not feared, does not demand or cause death. Also, associated with agriculture wealth, sometimes being depicted with a cornucopia. Aetiological myth explaining the start of the eleusinian mysteries. About the rape/marriage of persephone by/to hades and demeter"s reaction. A rare, early presentation of a woman"s perspective.
