CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cyclops, Odysseus, Descendents
5 Aug 2015
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Clas 104 - lecture 6: poseidon (neptune, character : unpredictable & dangerous, not evil though, pay back if you piss him off ex. Argos(hera v. poseidon) & athens(athena v. poseidon: appearance - looks like zeus, has a trident, concerns, the sea, earthquakes, horses cf. Mating with demeter(mother of persephone) = in forms of mare and stallion: patronage: he was beat out a lot, loser. Other sea deities: original sea deities, pontus, oceanus and tethys(titans, nereus( old man of the sea) = son of pontus and gaia, shape shifter. Proteus(shepherd of the sea horses) and triton (usually a merman and has a conch: later generations, nereids = daughters of nereus. Galatea: oceanids = offspring of oceanus and tethys, 3000 nymphs and springs, monsters= oppspring of pontus are monsters, offspring of phorcys and ceto: graeae, gorgons(2 immortal and 1 mortal), Ladon the dragon: offspring of poseidon and medusa(mortal): chrysaor and pegasus after. Later descendents of various sea deities/monsters: geryon, cerberus, echidna,
