CLAA06H3 Lecture 8: Lecture 8-Thesus.doc
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Myths of athens: claimed origins of the athenians, 1. The myth of the king cecrops (civilizing king in the golden age, snake. Two myths about the daughters of cecrops: the daughters of cecrops (aglaurus, herse, pandrosus) receive the basket with the infant erichtonius. Athena raises erichtonius: arrhephoria festival of the dew carriers ; two young girls, the. Arrhephoroi, living for a year on the acropolis and weaving a robe for. Athena; priestess of athena sends them to a cave of aphrodite; the baskets: aglaurus-bring, shining herse-humidity pandrosus-dew shining drops of water. The birth of erichtonius, red-figure attic vase, 5 th c bc: gaea holding baby has a crown, gives baby to athena, cecrops has half body snake. Last on right is herse: hephaestus is in the middle, aphrodite and centaurs were only ones created out of sperm, cephalus myth. In ovid, all cecrops" daughters look into the basket and survive.
