CLST 2090 Lecture : CLST 2090 Notes
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Cupid-psyche: once upon a time there was a king with three daughters. They were all beautiful, but by far the most beautiful was the youngest, She was so beautiful that people began to neglect the worship of venus, the goddess of love and beauty. Venus was very jealous, and asked her son cupid (the boy with the arrows) to make. Psyche fall in love with a horrible monster. When she woke up she entered a beautiful house where her every wish came true. He killed the turtle, gutted it, peeled its intestines over the shell to create the first stringed instrument. Two major instruments of the time: lyre and flute. Benefit of the lyre was that one could sing whilst playing. (9-24) Semele was a member of the royal family there: pentheus, the king of thebes, did not believe anything. Zeus won the argument and hera was so furious that she struck him blind.
