Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homeric Hymns, Anchises, Trojan War
13 Apr 2016
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She is an earlier generation than the olympian gods although she is assimilated into the. Olympian family so much so as she is sometimes spoken as the daughter of zeus, this suggests that she is under the authority of zeus. Hesiod: born from the sea out of castrated genitals of ouranos. Homer: daughter or zeus and dione (a titan) She represents sexual attraction, pleasure and loveliness, but also deceit and violence. Honoured in poems of sappho, her bird is the dove. She is married to hephaestus but has an affair with ares. She represents the sexual desire that represents procreation for all living things on earth. One of a series of hymns to the gods written in epic style. How the goddess became mother of mortal aeneas by trojan prince anchises. There is a mythic connection with rome here, she is the venus patron goddess of rome. Sometimes mother of eros although not in hesiod.
