CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aphrodite Pandemos, Aphrodite Urania, Cinyras

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

Document Summary

Or daughter of zeus: aphrodite pandemos & urania. **-symposium (where they drink and discus eros and aphrodite) Aphrodite urania represents platonic love [from uranous, older/wiser] Aphrodite pandemos represent physical desire [from zeus; both sexes] Nature: concerns: sexual desire. love, and marriage. In athenian religion, exclusively worship love and marriage. In cornith religion, exclusively worship lust [temple of prostitutes: character: desirable, powerful, dangerous. Sometimes more powerful than zeus because he"s always lusting over women. Dangerous ex. women of lemnos does not worship aphrodite and made them smell. The men turned to others and the women killed all the men. No more children, until jason arrives at lemnos. King refused to marry any women and made himself a women statue who ended up becoming a women and he married her: adonis. Myrrha = daughter of cinyras[ cursed with desire for own father because mother said myrrha was more beautiful then aphrodite]