CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hoplite, Aphrodite Urania, Sophrosyne
11 Apr 2016
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Women as vessels- not contribuing to geneic makeup of child. Zeus swalled his consort meis, out of his head was born their daughter athena. Athena is oten represented with hoplite arms of aegis that bore a depitcion of the head of. Where we look for explanaion, the greeks use their tets as a way of developing arguments. Midterm and inal are structured exactly the same way- two versions. Other quesions tend to run laterlaly throughout chapters about conlict between generaions. Female anthropomorphizaion fo the seaons te four beuatufuk woen who represented hfour beauiful qualiies of vruoaus asaso sof the ya. Frequently seen in assocaiteion twiht the personiicaion of the gracefulness of female beauty . Female sexuality related to the seaosns and the earth itself. Anadyomene (rising venus)- images depicing aphrodite emerging from sea/seashell. Connecing her to her origins in the sea. The shell itself is easily seen as a metaphor for the vulva.
