CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pasithea, Moirai, Iliad
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A. aphrodite (makes her irresistible) and sleep (unwilling, she offers him pasithea (birthed the minotaur), a grace) as her accomplices. B. zeus lists his lovers (115!) populated the world/he is horny. C. allegorical sex: metis (cleverness) and themis - (law) she bore horae (hours) and. Poseidon/neptune: earth-shaker (epithet) ruled the sea, animals: horses (sound of earthquakes, possession: trident, attributes: dangerous and malevolent, chariot with sea-monsters, ancient god (1200 bce) on linear b tablets, married to amphitrite (thetis" sister) = triton (merman) Hades/dis or pluto the enricher (euphemism: attributes: the invisible one , god of the underworld (tartarus, pitiless master of demons, possessions: invisibility helmet (gift from cyclopes, married to (unwilling) persephone (demeter"s daughter) Ancient hymnic genre and the hymn to aphrodite"s inversion of it. B. artemis, athena, hestia are immune to her tricks but zeus is very immune. C. politics of penetration penetrating is ok, being penetrated is bad.
