CLA204H1 Lecture : week3.doc
Document Summary
Castor and pollux are twins; castor is mortal pollux; immortal. Portrayed as jealous wife of zeus and as opposing his children from other women. Kestos girdle (where all the seduction in aphrodite lies) Zeus fucks io, and hera comes so he transforms her into a cow. Hera asks for the cow, and gives the cow to argos. Io runs back to egypt and transforms back into a woman. Hera takes all the eyes of argos and puts it on a peacock. This is why hera is associated with the peacock. Zeus approaches europa as a bull, she pets him. A story inserted into another, story mirrors other one. A shape within a shape within a shape. Heiros gamos sacred marriage; marriage of gods. Reason why odysseus couldn"t get home in time. Has a three headed dog, which guards the underworld. Fall of troy not mentioned in the illeus.
