CL 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Actaeon, Homeric Hymns, Grotto
13 Aug 2016
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Coin with athena sitting on her thrown; has a spear, a shield, breastplate (only female divinity with armor) Athena holds nike (victory) in her hand ready to crown someone as her victor. Attributes: bows and arrows (weapon of choice) Stood for something important in their social life: golden arrows, virgin, deer, deer are often connected with her. Sister of apollo (twin sister of apollo; children of zeus and o. Sowing death among the race of wild animals. Rite of passage: callimachus, humn to artemis, 19: to the cities, artemis does not often come down . Anti-city; young, wild, and carefree: eschatiai. Out to the ends of the cultivated place where men and women lived (boundary regions between uncultivated forest and cultivated land) Where her temples would be located: uncultivated vs. cultivated. Symbol of innocence of child to social life of the city: unploughed, unspoiled. What artemis represents (innocence of a child developing)
