CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thalassocracy, Knossos, Labrys
4 Oct 2015
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Eros went around infecting people with love (seems like cupid). Was a princess living in modern day lebanon. Turns himself into a bull to attract europa. The story: zeus turns himself in a bull to attract europa. Europa approaches the bull, puts her arms around him, and the bull runs off from phoenicia to crete. Since minos didn"t make the right sacrifice to poseidon, he punished him by making his wife fall in love with a white bull. She dresses as a cow (disguise created by. Daedalus) and mates with bull, gives birth to a minotaur. Also created a labyrinth to trap the minotaur and seven youth are sacrificed to the minotaur every year. Wants to volunteer as a sacrifice to minotaur. Unwinds a ball of wool to track where he is in the labyrinth. Gets to the middle and kills the minotaur with a sword. Excavated a monumental structure that resembled the labyrinth.
