CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Clytemnestra, Sweetness Of Wine, Divine Twins
30 Jun 2018
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Theseus
kata means down/downward
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Basis means walking/hiking
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The katabasis :
Greatest musician of all time
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Son of a Muse - The Muses are the goddesses of the music, poetry and fun
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Orpheus
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Theseus
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Heracles
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Odysseus
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Psyche
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The Divine Twins: Kastor and Polydeukes
In Greek it means beaver and the sweet wine
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another version: Castor and Polydeuces
The romans adopted them - they called them Castor and Pollux
They live in heaven as the constellation GEMINI - means "the twins"
Zeus takes the form of a beautiful swan and fucks her
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Kastor and Poludeuces
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Helen and Clytemnestra
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Leda gives birth to 4 children at the same time
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Plydeuces and Helen are divine - Zeus is the father
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The 2 divine ones will never die
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Leda married to King of Sparta -
The Kalydonian boarhunt
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Kastor and Polydeuces have a a lot of adventures together:
They saved his sister from abductors Theseus sent.
In real-life, they were imagined as youthful, aristocratic
Idas and Lynkeus
Lecture 10
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
6:23 PM
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Son of a muse - the muses are the goddesses of the music, poetry and fun. The divine twins: kastor and polydeukes another version: castor and polydeuces. In greek it means beaver and the sweet wine. The romans adopted them - they called them castor and pollux. They live in heaven as the constellation gemini - means "the twins" Zeus takes the form of a beautiful swan and fucks her. Leda gives birth to 4 children at the same time. Plydeuces and helen are divine - zeus is the father. Kastor and polydeuces have a a lot of adventures together: They saved his sister from abductors theseus sent. In real-life, they were imagined as youthful, aristocratic.
