CLAS 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hieros Gamos, Homeric Hymns, Cyclops
6 Jul 2018
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Thought himself more clever than zeus and other gods (hubris) Zeus condemns to carry enchanted boulder, every time he got to the top of the hill the boulder would roll back down for him to carry once more. He was kind of a jerk, made a habit of killing guests and travellers (xenia) Invited father-in-law to a feast, where he killed him (xenia) Zeus brings to olympus, where he lusts after hera (xenia, he was a guest of zeus and he betrayed him) Zeus blasts with thunderbolt and binds to a burning wheel, thought to take place in the tartarus of the underworld. You have no rights outside of your own city in greece. Priests interpreted the rustling of an oak tree to answer requests on lead tablets. Oracle connecting zeus to fate, rare for a god. A panhellenic sanctuary, means all of the greeks, not an independent city-state.
