CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Priapus, Horae, Anchises

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Associated with horae (4: women that were beautiful and represented the 4 seasons. Associated with three graves (themis: daughters of zeus with themis. Venus rising up: campaspe (alexander the great) was a prostitute for alexander but she ran away with painter. Married to hephaestus: greeks loved tension. Hephaestus made girdle and hera used to get what she wants from zeus. Hercules: steals a girdle from the queen of the amazons. Had affair with ares: love and war, hephaestus reveals them to the other gods. Had affair with dionysus (wine: had son called priapus. Attracted nymph salmacis: she fell in love with him, she seized him after he got out from bathing and prayed to be with him forever. Love in excess: the gods put them together have both genders. Had mortal lovers as well: anchises (troy) Disguised herself as a mortal and had sex with him for 2 weeks. He carried anchises cause he couldn"t walk.