CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Myrrh, Actaeon, Aphrodite Pandemos
18 Apr 2013
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Plato (symposium) distinguishes between aphrodite urania (and eros as principle of cohesion) and aphrodite pandemos (and eros as the naughty boy with arrows) Aphrodite pandemos is the daughter of zeus and dione, sometimes presented as more powerful than zeus since she can"t be controlled by him. Socrates learned from diotima that eros is a creature that cannot be defined because it exists in between ignorance/knowledge, property/wealth. Usually clothed in vase paintings (6-5th c. Following praxiteles" full standing statue, aphrodite of cnidus, often represented nude (4th c. Has crown of myrtle leaves, magic girdle, geese, doves, sparrows (often associated with birds/winged creatures, somehow connected to sexual desire?) With eros, peitho (persuasion), horae (seasons), three graces. Golden apple for the most beautiful goddess - hera, athena, aphrodite want it. Zeus is too scared to choose so sends them to paris, a shepherd. Hera offers royalty, athena offers military power, aphrodite offers the most beautiful person in the world, helen, who is married.
