CLASS102 Lecture 3: Classics 102 Lecture January 15th.docx
21 Feb 2014
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Cronus castrates uranus: from the blood that falls upon the earth, the furies are produced. Mighty aphrodite: birth of aphrodite (venus, from genitals of uranus and sea-foam. Aphros = foam: epithets of aphrodite, cytherea (island of cythera) Said that she first landed here and then moved to cyprus. But actually she moved east to west: cyprogenes (island of cyprus, philomme(i)des. Then with a change of a letter . Like father like son : 6 children of cronus and rhea (mother and son, 1st generation of olympians. Hestia, demeter, hera, hades, poseidon, zeus: zeus vs. cronus, prophecy of uranus to cronus. He heard that he"s going to be overthrown: cronus" solution: eat the kids! She puts zeus away and replaces him with a stone in swaddling clothes: substituted for zeus. Cretan zeus: zeus on crete, raised in secret on mt. Fed by bees, nursed by nymph: amalthea (or goat!: cornucopia horn of plenty , can spontaneously produce food/drink.
