CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sacred Prostitution, The Golden Ass, Homeric Hymns
11 Mar 2013
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Is oldest and youngest of the olympians; born first, but vomited last by cronus. Always paired up with hermes (duality of traveller vs. someone who doesn"t move at all) Goddess of the hearth sacred fire. Defines internal space of female world: woman"s duty to tend the fire. Left out the canon of the olympians. Vesta: goddess of hearth as center of family life (extended to the roman community; was more important to roman"s then the greeks) Vestal virgins: temple of vesta in roman forum. Ancient (12 c. bc), non-greek probably coming to greece from the east. Two genealogies: first generation gods springs from semen of castration of uranus, daughter of zeus and dione. Double origin: cyprus (cypris), cythera two islands associated with her, two names: ourania (heavenly aphrodite), pandemos (for all people) Myths: pygmalion (king of cyprus) and galatea (comes to life from a statue through.
