Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Omen, Pan Flute, Odysseus

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Champion of culture and a clever inventor of ways to tame nature (contrast poseidon: bridle, ships, weaving, olive harvest. She has man intelligence from both her father and metis. Patron goddess of athens; her temple, the parthenon, enjoys a place of prominence and honour on the acropolis: goddess in the city vs. artemis goddess in the wilderness, her temple looms high in the acropolis. Presides over legal trials and other civic processes: homicide trials was established by athena in the city. Contrast her sister artemis, whose sphere is the wilderness. Born lame (theogony, hymn to apollo) or later injured by zeus or hera: and imperfect. In some cases, we are told he became disabled when hera threw him out of olympus and fell down into the ocean, becoming injured. Thrown into the sea by hera, cared for by thetis (nymph) Ironic how he is the ugliest of the gods, married to the prettiest of the gods.