CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Erechtheion, Homeric Hymns, Odysseus
21 Feb 2014
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Between a rock : syclla, 2 version of myth. Daughter of sea-god phorcys: poseidon tries to seduce her, amphitrite transforms her into monster, potion, lower half: ringed with raging dogs, becomes one of the terrors of mariners, sea adventurers, ovid"s metamorphoses. Glaucus (fisherman, transformed into sea god) falls in love with scylla (rejects his advances: asks sorceress circe (in the odyssey is a lover to odysseus) for aid (a love potion, circe loves glaucus, transforms. Straits of messina (between sicily and italy: scylla could represent a giant squid (the kraken) And a hard place: charybdis, daughter of poseidon and gaia, became voracious whirlpool, sucks down and spews up water 3x/day, located in straits of messina, caught between scylla and charybdis, odysseus decided to go toward scylla instead of. Athena: wields spear and helmet, part of the aegis. The strange conception and birth of aphrodite: athena (minerva, homeric hymn to athena and hesiod"s theogony.
