CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maenad, The Bacchae, Anchises
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Spheres of influence: beauty, attraction, desire, sex, pleasure, fertility and reproduction: love = sexual desire. All of nature (beyond just gods + mankind) towards fertility; making everything reproduce and flourish. Attributes: often displayed in the nude, doves, sparrows, swans, and swallows, eros (cupid) son of aphrodite. (two aspects of this eros figure) A protogenos: apple, mirror, shell (sitting in a seashell direct ref. to one of her birth myths) Zeus" biggest issue, to make gods fall in love with mortals. So he makes her learn a lesson by making aphrodite fall in love with a mortal. She pretends she"s a mortal and confesses her feelings to the prince. The prince is taken back from his beauty and he knows to be cautious (since during this time since it"s not unusual for the gods to visit the. Earth), he asks if she"s a nymph, a princess or a goddess.
