CLC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Almond, Aphrodite Pandemos, Preggers
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Had the power to make people fall in love. Other tradition born from zeus and dione. Aphrodite was mad w women of cyprus bc they denied that she was divine. She made them first prostitutes, became shameless. Sculptor pygmalion was appalled by these women; he didn"t take a wife as a result. Made a beautiful statue; fell in love with statue. Time came for feast of venus in cyprus. Pyg made sacrifice and asked venus for wife didnt say the statue. Venus understood and made the statue into a real woman. Ms nurse arranged for her to stepo. M had become preggers; tree gave birth to adonis. Adonis was a handsome man who went on the hunt. Shakespear worte a poem venus and adonis . When adonis was a baby aphro would put him in a chest for persephone to gaurd. P saw how beutiful adonis was; didnt want to return him.
