CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Theogony, Heterosexuality, Dione (Titaness)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Aphrodite (venus: goddess of love, picture is by botticelli, birth, two versions. Rose from the genitals of ouranos: aphrodite pandemos & aphrodite urania. The two versions cause the separation of aphrodite into two ap. Urania related to higher things, spiritual things. Homosexual desire thought of as a higher form of lust. No women involved in conception: nature, concerns: sexual desire, love and marriage. To pray to aphrodite, you go chill with the prostitutes and talk with them. Having sex with a prostitute represents fertility in a broader scope (farm soil fertility: nature: desirable, beautiful and powerful. Zeus is annoyed at aphrodite and fills her with desire for. She comes to him disguised as a princess. Anchises is convinced she"s not a god. The morning after aphrodite towered over him. He feels humiliated and afraid so he asks her to kill him. She says no and tells him it will be fine.