CLAS 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Oceanid, Mother Goddess, Fertile Material

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

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The chariot races to the heights of heaven, creating havoc by the intensity of heat, then hurtles down to earth: earth herself is ablaze and unable to endure her fiery anguish any longer. Leucothoe to her, told leucothoes father of the affair: orchamus buried his daughter, and helius was too late to save her. He shed drops of nectar of her corpse, which grew into a frankincense tree: clytie could not persuade helius to forgive her not could she recover his love. She sat, following the sun"s progress with her eyes until she turned into a sunflower, which forever turns its face toward the sun: selene, goddess of the moon and endymion. Selene daughter of hyperion and theia, is a goddess of the moon. Helius, she drives a chariot, although hers usually has only two horses: there is only one famous linked with her and this concerns her love from the handsome youth endymion (shepherd)