CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Candaules, Myrtilus, Cephalus
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Reciprocity: do to others what you would have them do to you; cyclicality: things repeat itself over time. Story involves cecrops" daughters (the ones who open the basket when they"re not supposed to and jump off a cliff b/c of what they see) In a diff version of the myth told by ovid, one of cecrops" daughters is alive and has a son named cephalus. Cephalus=handsome athenian man, attracts the attention of aurora (means sunrise), the personi ed goddess of sunrise. Then cephalus settles down to become the king of athens and marries procis. Cephalus is nervous that his new bride may be unfaithful to him in the future so he goes on to test his wife to see if she"s susceptible to temptation. He appears to her in different disguises, but every time procis pushes him away. The last time, he offers her a golden crown and she accepts it in return for sex.
