CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hephaestus, Etiology, Cinyras
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Born from castrated genitals of kronos/daughter of zeus and dione. Mother of eros/cupid [sometimes], aeneas, hermaphroditus, priapus. Timai love, sexual desire, beauty and reproduction [take place through the act of sex] Epithets kytherea, cypriote, laughter-loving and lover of smiles. Power over all the gods except the three vestal virgins [athena, artemis and hestia] Love is her main domain, would make the gods engage in intercourse with humans boasted how powerful she is [has control over everyone] Zeus, unhappy about aphrodite, decided to make her fall in love with a young trojan man named. Ankhises [used her power against her] depending on some version, zeus asked aphrodite to stop making gods fall in love with humans. Ida to meet ankhises, disguised as maiden tells him a story of how she is a virgin and is destined to be ankhises" wife. Ida, she was at her shrine at paphos on cyprus preparing for herself for seducing ankhises.
