CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nanny, Pomegranate, Iambe
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His mother maia does not even count as one of zeus" wife. Takes us through steps and hardship of marriage. Put into a new family and she has no choice, life separated from birth family. Seasons (why winter on grain, why sprouts come back in spring) Persephone pick ower, saw a enormous ower (a trick by hades), as she reached the ower, earth"s gap. Persephone is reaching for sth (curiosity) but not really prepared what is going to come. Is hade"s abduction of persephone a real marriage. No (did go through the ritual, the bride does not eat, mother of bride should carry a torch along the chariot) No child, (but in ancient greece, marriage is for child) Daughter of demeter (4th wife of zeus) zeus. He can"t choose who is going to (blindness) Demeter wondering around to nd her child, with a torch, sun god Don"t want to be part of the immortal.
