CLA 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Actaeon, Aeschylus, Evil Eye
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Chapter 9 the olympians: the female deities. Introduction: the female olympians: greek myth was told by and for greek males, male gods govern male spheres of activity. Hestia and aphrodite: hestia, goddess of the hearth. There are only a few stories about her: goddess of the house; her name means hearth . She defined the internal space of the female world. 6 vestal virgins tend her shrine and fire at the heart of the city. It was viewed as a great honor to be a vestal virgin; loss of virginity was punished by being buried alive: aphrodite, goddess of sexual love. She was associated with overwhelming urges and passions of desire regarded as dangerous and irresponsible. She shares traditions with near eastern deities (inanna, ishtar, astart : born from the foam (aphros) or uranus" genitals (in alternate telling, born from zeus and dione)
