CLAS104 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cinyras, Aphrodite Pandemos, Anchises
16 Apr 2016
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Dione (nymph: two goddess (2 temples), pandemos= "whole people", lower kind of love directed at lust mainly: urania= 1st birth story, heavenly, inspire higher forms of love, concerns, love in marriage (athens) - protectress of marriage, promiscuous. Sexual desire (corinth) was done as a worship because fertility was a symbol: consorts, hephaestus: beauty, useful stuff, ares: link between love & war. Inanna & ashtar (make love at home and go for war) B) characteristics: very powerful: has a universal power for sexual desire. Develops a lust towards anchises (mortal) due to a curse by zeus cos she made gods fall in love with mortals, she gets pregnant and gives the child to nymphs: dangerous: Hippolytus hated her so made him fall in love with his step mom, ended up dead in his chariot. Aphrodite in the beauy contest leads to trojan war. Psyche(mortal), was worshipped as aph. cos she was a beautiful princess--> tells.
