CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orio, Actaeon, Cynthus
12 Sep 2016
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Cynthus on delos born first and helps with the birth of her twin brother. Goddess of the moon cycle of the moon connected to the menstrual period of women. Connected to selene (the moon in the heavens) and cousin hecate: lives in underworld (connected to fertility) Arkteia: festival; girls would play bear", sacrifice to artemis before they are married. Leto calls upon her kids who kill both niobe"s sons (apollo kills) and daughters (artemis) she cried like a bitch so they changed her into a mountain with a flowing river (tears) Week 3 walks in on her while she taking a bath, she was naked turns him into stag and is followed by his own hounds and companions and is killed. Athena has similar story to artemis with tiresias. Orio: anger famous constellation hunter who tries to rape artemis in anger makes a scorpion appear from the earth to sting him to death.
