CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Oceanid, Clotho, Hieros Gamos
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Bent-legged hephaestus : outcast from olympus (twice!, hera casts hephaestus from olympus. Thetis and nereids rescue and nurse him: learns metal-working skills, zeus tosses hephaestus. Shows how we can project our human problems onto the gods themselves: landed on island of lemnos, homer, il. Return of hephaestus: hepheastus" revenge, creates golden throne for hera out of love". Fine gold mesh to trap her: only hephaestus can free her. Refuses to return to olympus: enter dionysus: Brings him back to olympus: frees hera, hephaestus forges achilles" armor, not in any literary account. Beauty and the beat: hephaestus and aphrodite, rocky marriage to say the least. Aphrodite has affair with ares: venus and mars, they"re meant to have an affair, homer"s odyssey. Book 8: immoral content, humorously recounted, helius told hephaestus that aphro having an affair, hephaestus told. Aphrodite that he was leaving, made a similar thing for her that he did for.