CLA 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 53: Greek Mythology, Cyparissus, Kouros
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Apollo and hyacinthus: male love, the spartan way, apollo si 19 early. Apollo, the eternal kouros young man oversees the transition of young men into full manhood, long hair for young boys. The eternally renewing hyacinth is like the kouros, who lives on in each new generation of young men, hyacinth reborn with every spring, kouros eternal cuz always new generations of young men. Eternal kouros and his father zeus, always bearded, ultimate fully mature male, zeus gets to keep him for all of eternity that sounds a bit sketch tbh. Okay no incest is not okay oh my god enough. Turns into tale of incest, tried to commit suicide when she developed feelings fo her father, her nurse freaks out and in order to save her she. Vulcan so givers him to persephone, who is equally smitten with the young boy so she refuses to give him back #catfight, story suggests that.
