CLA 1101 Lecture 4: 4 lecture outline and note

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Epsilon is for eros, son of aphrodite. Effects of coming of indo-europeans: mainland (mh) , cyclades (mc) see grouping of cyclades islands, crete (mm) see island of crete. Middle bronze age (minoan) crete: homer (c/f quotation p. 50) Zeus meets europa, and being a serial rapist he must have sex with her. Minos is supposed to make a sacrifice to poseidon, but fails so poseidon punishes him by making his wife fall in love with a white bull. Pasiphae wants to mate with the bull but she cannot because she is human, so she asks daedalus to craft a cow that she can climb into and therefor mate with the bull. They mate, and a minotaur is born: minotaur & labyrinth. Minos gets daedalus to make a labyrinth for the minotaur to live in. Minotaur besides 7 girls and 7 boys who enter the labyrinth to be sacrificed once every year: theseus & ariadne.