CLA204H1 Lecture : February 16 Lecture

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12 May 2011
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Meden agan (nothing to excess); the golden mean . Ephebeia and rites of passage transfer one period of life through the next; exiled man who suffers test, and is reintegrated as a changed citizen (ephebeia; young man on the verge of adulthood) Many myths revolve around argolid plain of greece, where bronze age, mycenae and tiryns were located. Perseus was born of danae and zeus, married andromeda and had electryon and alcaeus who birthed, Eponymous, eponym give your name to something (memphis, lybia, aegyptus, danaus/danae) Danaids = descendents of danaus, proetids, nereids, atreides etc. Proetus; king of argos; bellarophon accidentally killed someone and has to run away from home, proetus takes him in. Wife anteia also likes bellerophon, tied by xenia to proetus and cannot go against him. Potiphar"s wife (genesis) motif, anteia tells husband bellerophon tried to rape her, he is angered but cant do anything because of xenia, so he comes up with a plan.

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