CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Iasion, Despoina, Triptolemus
24 Oct 2016
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For them it was a basis of society. Originally an independent city, by 650 bc it was controlled by athens. Demeter"s main festivals fall around the beginning of autumn. A hymn is a song written to honour a god or goddess. These greek hymns were thought to be written by homer, but they are later works in a. The hymn to demeter preserves a partial aetiology of the eleusinain mysteries. A common greco-roman image for a girl on the verge of marriage ie. sexually available. She has been forced from one role to another. This is a common role for the older women in myth and society. Demeter seeks to burn the mortality away from demophoon. Demephoon"s mother breaks the spell and angers demeter. In this hymn, zeus is concerned for the fate of humanity. Humans will now exercise more control over growing things. Demeter sleeps with him in a plowed eld.
