AR201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hephaistia, Cuckold, Parthenogenesis
16 Feb 2018
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Created by hera through parthenogenesis in order to spite zeus for giving birth to athena: cast out of mt. Athens where many goods were bought and sold: cult festival of hephaistia- held every 5 years, attributes: Hephaistos and aphrodite: married to aphrodite-beauty and beast motif, married to aphrodite-beauty and beast motif, role of cuckold. Erechthonios: one of early mythical kings of athens. Ares: god of war: younger olympian, son of zeus and hera, name found on linear b but, cult likely began in thrace, then spread across. Greece: god of war in its most savage guise, personification of bloodlust, symbol of his parent"s marriage torn by strife, not liked by zeus- no sympathy when ares was wounded by diomedes in. Dog and vulture were his animal symbols of destruction: name associated with place/objects. Ex: hippolyte, amazon queen who owned belt of ares. In myth amazons were believed to have descended from ares. Father of diomedes who bred man-eating horse.
