CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cyclops, Phorcys, Faunus
3 Apr 2016
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Main god of the sea has a chariot of horses: poseidon (neptune, character: unpredictable & dangerous. Polyphemus pursues odysseus; punishes argos & athens when rejected. Seems to be going ater people in myths. Poseidon gets angry when he loses on contests. Argos: city of argos has a temple of hera: there was a contest between hera and. Dried up the rivers of argos when he lost to hera: appearance: mature male with trident. Doesn"t have his atribute (lightning bolt or trident?: concerns, the sea people that went out sailing, made sacriices to poseidon to keep their git by giving him the heaviest ish, earthquakes also the god of earthquakes. Both come unpredictably and destrucive: horses, poseidon hippios. God of horses, one of his epithets is poseidon hippios where hippios means horse horses were sacriiced to poseidon: maing with demeter and medusa as a stallion. Corinth, apollo at delphi, zeus at aegina, dionysus at naxos.
