HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Secret Affair, Hermaphroditus, Sea Monster
25 Mar 2014
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Book 4: bacchus is dionysus, there is a transition from book 3 and book 4 in regards to the transition of dionysus, the daughters of minyas (1): one of the daughters refuses to worship bacchus. But it is told in less detail here: the names are interchanged with ares and aphrodite. Hephaistos is vulcan: helios is the sun god. While the girls are telling these stories, they are weaving: the weaving looms turn to vines and leaves. They are covered in ivy: minerva is also the goddess of weaving. The daughters themselves are transformed into bats for having ignored the worship of bacchus: perseus (1): he is the son of jupiter and danae. Bacchus into his city: this is a forced transition, achreseus is impregnated by jupiter. Line 740-752: perseus washes his hands, and took seaweed and put it over the head of.
