CLCV 115 Lecture Notes - Procris, Cephalus, 3 Women
19 May 2014
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During the 6th and 5th centuries athens became an important military power and cultural center. Erichthonius was an early king of athens who succeeded cecrops. Athena had gone to hephaestus" smithy for repair of her weapons. Missing aphrodite, whom he had divorced, he pursued athena lustfully across the acropolis. He caught up to her and ejaculated semen onto her leg. In disgust, athena wiped it off on a piece of wool and threw it to the ground. The 3 women were the daughters of cecrops- aglaurus, herse, and pandrosus. Athena warned them to not look inside the basket but aglaurus and herse couldn"t resist and were driven mad by the sight of a serpent/child combination. They then leaped from the acropolis to their deaths. The arrephoroi were 2 young girls who lived all year long in a special house on the acropolis, weaving a robe offered each year to the statue of athena.
