Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aeneid, Trojan War, Sexual Attraction

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Challenges to zeus(cid:495) authority rarely succeed: many claimed descent from zeus(cid:495) line. Zeus takes many forms in his sexual conquests supplication. He is himself nevertheless subject to fate or necessity. Divine champion and enforcer of justice (dike), hospitality (xenia), How does this story pattern work: allows for many to claim descent from zeus, reconciles two conflicting needs, consent of his chosen partner, preservation of her chaste virtue, compare io(cid:495)s immaculate conception of epaphus. Hestia (vesta) (cid:494)first and last born(cid:495: one of three female first generation olympians, virgin sister of zeus, stays in the home and tends the hearth-fire, few myths feature her. In rome, as vesta, she is a powerful state goddess and highly honoured. Hades (dis) (cid:494)zeus of the underworld(cid:495) (cid:494)receiver(cid:495) or (cid:494)host of many(cid:495), (cid:494)of many names(cid:495). Like his brothers zeus and poseidon, mature male, often depicted enthroned: hades is also the name for the place that is the underworld, dark, shadowy, mournful.