CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Homeric Hymns, Tithonus, Typhon
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Growing up as a god: mortals & immortal interactions. Aphrodite & anchises: apollo/phoibos (the bright one)/pythaios (killing typhoeous)/helios (the sun)/delphinios (the dolphin)/the far-shooter. Represents order/civilizing (vs herms, god of zigzag : homeric hymns. Has place besides zeus provokes hera"s jealousy. Hard time finding a birth place cousin of zeus, metis, prometheus (daughter of koios & phoeve, see cr: hymn to apollo 131-132. Lyre, bow & prophesy: searching for oracle. Long search thru wilderness before there were roads (line 227), (civilizing force) Reared by she-dragon ( pytho or rotter ) whom apollo kills: h. apollo lines 337-339. Hera trying to restart the succession myth: symbolic imagery of killing pytho. Fresh, young over rotter (new order over rotting old order) Cattle-rustling robber, and a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, and a gate-keeper (h. Makes things opposite to what they were (changes the boundary) Wants to eat meat instead of ambrosia (half-man half-god?) Birth not yet recognized by olympians: hermes.
