CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Venus Callipyge, Cronus, Hoplite

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

Document Summary

Zeus reined in the same way as uranus o. Fear of what his own children would represent. Married meis (wisdom) before hera o o o. Concerned that meis would give birth to a child to overthrow him. Divine wisdom drawn from the head of god. Special bond of afecion between father and daughter. Championship of heroes and male causes, born as she was from the male, and not from a mother"s womb. Dread goddess of war, she remained a virgin. Athena bears an aloof kind of loveliness, akin to the beauty of youthful masculinity. Why is athena feminine with such masculine atributes. Hera grew jealous of one of zeus" loves. Greeks believed anything in excess is bad o. Greek mind: medusa brought poseidon"s lust upon them o. Anyone who looked at her turned to stone. When medusa is decapitated, her sisters the gorgon"s are angered. Contested to who would be athens favourite god.