CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Iphigenia, Actaeon, Themis
5 Aug 2015
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Artemis: nature, concerns, gives skill to hunters and wild animals, childbirth = daughter of leto(titan) and zeus, twin of apollo. 3. virginity = original one: moon = selene, character, twin (of apollo) = wild opposite of brother, merciless. Artemis because artemis wouldn"t let them continue with battle. Ex iphigeneia = daughter of agamemnon who was killed/sacrificed to. Hera is mad of her pregnancy and leto flees to delos where she promises to give them a temple if they let her give birth there. Version 2: hera made her daughter eliphia not to let leto give birth until the other goddess" helped: niobe = princess of thebes. Women were making a festival for leto and she forbid women to worship leto since she had 12 children. Apollo and artimis took bows and arrows to kill all of niobe"s children(artemis kills girls, apollo kills boys: actaeon. A hunter comes across artemis and her female companions bathing.
