CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lapiths, Rhadamanthus, Mithraism
9 May 2016
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One of the most powerful women- only women who could every make zeus change his mind. Plurodotera- wealth giver, greek society was agriculture baised. Portrayed as a rape: he forced the pomegranet seed into her. Demeter doesn"t know where he daughter is, she walks for nine days, and on the tenth she finds out. She comes across young girls in eleusis as she is decised as an old women, the girls make her the nurse for her brother. As she crosses into this house, her decuise is briefly torn off, and her brilliance is reaviled, but only for a millisecond. The nurse knows there"s something special with demeter, and she tells jokes to make demeter laugh, because she knew she was upset. , and she offers her wine. Demeter transfers her love for her daughter onto her child. She wanted to turn the child mortal via: rub with embrosia and roast the child.
