CLCV 115 Chapter Notes - Chapter Discussion: Proserpina, Pentheus, Themis
5 Feb 2018
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A human or lesser divinity, who resembles a great divinity, but is usually punished by the greater divinity. Covers the world in a cloud and impregnates her. Juno/hera is jealous & angry and punishes her but jupiter/zeus disguises her into a cow who is watched by argus (100 eyes) Juno sends a mosquito who bites io who runs off to egypt and gives birth to jupiter"s son. Theban princess impregnated by him, so juno punishes her by disguising herself in the shape of semele"s nurse & asks semele how she really knows that it was. She says that, when jupiter sleeps with juno, he appears in all his divine glory. Her unborn child is later extracted from her womb and implanted in. This child ends up being bacchus, the god of wine. Orpheus begins his song by revealing his subject matter: mortals that the gods have fallen in love with. Jupiter was burning with love for the young boy ganymede.
