CLAS104 Lecture 9: Week 5 Lectures
4 Apr 2016
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Inspires lower kind of love (lust, desire) zeus and dione: -2) aphrodite urania. Thought to be middle eastern inluence (higher form of love which is directed toward and older gender and appreciaing life experience and virtue of that person as apposed to a younger person) Plato"s symposium, put forth idea that there were 2 aphrodite"s because aphrodite was worshipped in 2 diferent temples under both diferent names. Tricked him into sleeping with her, showed up as a beauiful princess: 2)dangerous eg. hippolytus, paris, dido. Paris: paris was judge of beauty contest between athena, aphrodite, hera, chose aphrodite, helen was married so paris went and seduced her and took her to troy. Dido: roman context, aeneas has high doom upon him to establish eternal city so he wandered around mediterranean and stumbled upon north africa and recently widowed queen dido, she fell in love with him.
