CLAA06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Panathenaic Games, Actaeon, Odysseus
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Chapter 9 myths of the female deites. Aphrodite, artemis and athena: male olympians have objectives that overlap but females have only one like demeter grain sprout from sea, hestia life of the house where fire burns, aphrodite sex attraction and new generation, Atemis wealth of wild: only athena has no clear relationship with fertility. Demeter mistress of wheat: gaea looked over birth of the world, demeter oversaw fruitfulness of agriculture, especially wheat, meter mother, godesses demeter and persephone. Hestia the hearth: eldest of cronus and rhea, first swallowed and last spat out, always virgin and protected family and extended family city. Aphrodite goddess of sexual love: overwhelming power of attraction, companion is (child by ares) eros sexual desire roman cupid, associated with cypris or cytherea where she emerged from the sea, temple prostitution. Hermaphroditus and priapus: aphrodite had affair with not only ares but also messenger god.
