CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Golden Ass, Oil Lamp, Aeneid
24 Sep 2016
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Goddess of love, procreation, marriage, and generally sex. Attributes: nudity (post-5th century bc) and magic girdle (not depicted in art) Born from the foam from the castration of uranus. Born of zeus and dione (in the iliad) Pandemos = goddess of physical attraction and procreation. The women who take her from the foam of the sea. Often nude as well - two forward-facing, one backward. Image in gardens and at doors of houses. Aphrodite was unhappy with the women of cyprus because they denied her divinity. Turned them into the first prositutes for lack of devotion. Pygmalion was disgusted with these women leading a life of sin - did not marry. Instead, fashioned himself an ivory statue of a woman that he soon fell in love with. Cared for it, dressed it, and spoke to it. At the festival of venus, prays that he would have a real woman.
