CLA204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Herma, Tithonus, Heteronormativity
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He is at that stage where a young person"s hormone is flooding. One of his chief characteristics, in terms of mythic personality and love, is a failure. All of his affairs of boys and girls ends tragically. His trademarks include beardlessness and arrow or lyre. She was coy at the start- playing hard to get. She agreed to have sex with him in exchange for knowledge or prophecy from the deity. But right as she is about to consummate the act, she changes her mind. He asks for another kiss of her and then spits in her mouth. Apollo turned her gift" into a curse, as revenge. She sees the destruction of troy but no one believes her. In any case he is among the panthion". In many cases apollo is characteristic of the greek god. But in the background is a whole lot of things going on. One of apollo"s characteristic is that of being a trickster.
