GRST 209 Lecture 12: Theban Saga
29 Nov 2018
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The roots of the sphinx is near eastern that we meet with in old babylonian, syrian, and persian mythology. Often female in theban myth, male in others. How it plays a dual role of protecting and threatening. "the phoenicians who came with cadmus introduced into greece writing, an art till then, i think, unknown to the greeks" "the phoenicians began the quarrel they seized and carried off some argive women. Io was among the captives thus commenced the series of outrages. " A greek women who finds herself in egypt. Mythology, io is seduced by zeus (in the form of a cloud) and she gets pregnant. Hera noticed he spent lots of time in argos, and decides to get rid of io. She asks zeus who io is, and then he turns io into a cow. She runs to egypt to escape the torment of being a cow.
