CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hermaphroditus, Anchises, Cinyras
21 Oct 2016
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Born from castrated genitals of ouranos or daughter of zeus and dione. Mother of eros (sometimes), aeneas, hermaphroditus, priapus. Epithets: cytherea, cypriote, laughter-loving, lover of smiles. She has power over all the gods but the 3 virgin goddesses. She is making the gods sleep with the mortals and apparently zeus wants to be faithful to hera but he can"t because aphrodite is making him sleep around. Zeus uses his own power and he makes aphrodite fall in love with a mortal man named. She comes to anchises disguised as a maiden and she"s very beautiful and tall. And the moment they have sex the spell seems to be broken and she appears to anchises in her true form and she is disgusted (power reversal. And that his line would continue for many centuries. She tells him stories of other relationships between gods and mortals and she speaks of.
