CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Greco-Roman Mysteries, Aphrodite, Aphrodite Urania
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Sphere of influence: beauty, attraction, desire, sex, pleasure. Titles fertility (making everything grow and produce and flourish) and reproduction: cypris, cytherea, ourania, heavenly (or daughter or uranus, pandemos, of all people , venus genetrix (ancestral mother) of rome. Attributes: doves, sparrows, swans and swallows, eros (cupid) / son of venus, apple, mirror, shell, nude. Aphrodite rising from the sea - image shown - Makes gods fall in love with mortals: pay back = Disguised herself as mortal and confesses her infatuation to him. She assures him she"s just a mortal don"t be afraid : why would he be afraid of her being a mortal jealousy, potential fall out. Sphere of influence: fertility: wine, celebration and festivity, pleasure and luxury, vegetation, ecstasy theatre the irrational. Attributes thyrsus - just as neptune has his trident dionysus has a special cane leopard skin - reference to animal side and to the east (in a very vague and general sense)
