CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Apotheosis, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Amykles
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Don"t live forever human but w/divine qualities. Heroes are mediating figures communicate w/both worlds. Hera throws snakes into heracles" crib but athena takes the snakes out. Bronze age cretan sarcophagus (coffin) 1st evidence of worship of dead people. Altars on east for gods > sun rising. Altars on west for heroes > sun setting. Heroic burial near city gates of eritrea. Cremated remains inside jars put in front of cities to symbolize them protecting the city. He liked artemis > loved hunting & liminal zone. Worshipped in a sanctuary of a person who doesn"t really like him > aphrodite. Girls cut a token of their hair to give to sanctuary of hippolytus. Hyacinthus" bones were buried at apollo"s sanctuary. Whom the gods love they destroy long wooden pole on top of hyacinthus symbolizing apollo left soldier figures at sanctuary > rite of passage. Great pride in city if you have the bones of a saint.
