ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hephaestus, Pentheus, Pederasty
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He knows how his wife will respond, but he thinks it will be worth it. Juno finds out that callisto had a son: turns callisto into a bear, asks for further punishment, she wants to persecute her rival. The child is a reminder of the affair. Scorning her husband did nothing, so she wants to punish the woman that he had the affair with. Hermes (cid:498)so mighty his strength (cid:499) (cid:523)(ymn 4, p. (cid:883)9(cid:882)(cid:524) Apollo brags of his talents to daphne. Good at singing: softens apollo to him. Steals cattle in a sly way: makes the cattle walk backwards, hides his tracks. Apollo and hyacinthus: with both of these, the gods seem to be more in love with these men than the women they are with. Positive: striving for excellence and recognition: hermes wish to be honoured, rivalry between hermes and apollo, rivalry between apollo and cupid.
