CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Asclepius, Pactolus
16 Mar 2013
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Atalanta and the calydonian boar artemis sends a boar to the town because the king did not sacrifice their first harvest. A group of men kill the boar, but artemis creates a dispute between the men and a war breaks out. The boar hide is awarded to atalanta, wife of. Her husband won her hand by defeating her in a foot race, throwing three golden apples to distract her. Hippolytus he vowed to remain chaste and serve artemis. Aphrodite becomes angry and makes it so phaedra (his step-mother) falls in love with hippolytus. He denies her, and she goes to her husband and tells him that he tried to rape her, so he is killed. The birth of apollo hera was jealous of leto so she forbade her to give birth anywhere on the earth, so she gave birth on a floating island, declared the center of the world [delos]
