CLA219H1 Chapter Notes -Homeric Hymns, Radiance, Iambe
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Zeus sends the flower narcissus to bait the daughter of demeter in order to aid hades capture of. Aetiological: helios blames zeus but consoles demeter calling hades a worthy son-in-law and already her blood. They encourage her ter at the well where she sits to seek the proper path. She offerse her a: demeter stands in the threshold, and the doorway is filled with radiance. Iambe fetches her a stool for deso will not sit on the luxurious chair of meteneira. She also place with her father celeos makes the sad goddess laugh: demeter refuses wine and asks for water blended with barely meal and pennyroyal, daily she anointed the boy with ambrosia as if he were god-born. She becomes nurse to demophoon at the breast of his mother. By night she put him over the fire. She would have made him free of old age and immortal but his mother shrieked in her fear when she spied demeter.