Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carriage, Metanira, Pomegranate

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

Document Summary

A story sung by the bard demodocus to entertain the phaecians. Phaecians were people who were really good at accepting people in their homes and being very hospital. Penelope was a loyal wife and all the smart people tend to benefit in this story. Aga(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:374)o(cid:374)"s (cid:449)ife ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er (cid:272)heated o(cid:374) her hus(cid:271)a(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d (cid:449)as i(cid:374) so(cid:373)e (cid:449)a(cid:455) respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le for his death. Virtuous women tend to keep their gaze down and away from men but in the picture aphrodite maintains eye contact. The war god; ares showered her with gifts and they had their affairs within the house. Helios de(cid:272)ided to tell aphrodite"s hus(cid:271)a(cid:374)d that she is (cid:272)heati(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d so hephaistos de(cid:272)ided to create a snare or trap to catch them in the acts. Hephaistos paid a lot of money to force zeus to give him one of his daughter and so since she cheated he said he would leave her in the trap till zeus gave him his gifts.