Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Theogony, Sparagmos, Melicertes
15 Oct 2018
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Cadmus(cid:495) sown men, establisher of household, married. Harmonia and cadmus have 4 daughters: ino, agave and autonoe marry the sown men. City is established through oracle, dragon slaying, then miraculous growth of people out of the ground, then daughters who are descended from gods, are married to sown men: not semele, she has relationship to zeus. How is dionysus one of the 12 olympians, if his mother is mortal. Just as athena is born from zeus head (intelligence) but dionysus is born from thigh: this is how he gets his immortality. Hera wants to do him harm, so strategies taken to protect him from hera: he was hidden from hera on mt. Hera drove them mad: athamas hunted and killed his elder son learchus, thinking he was a deer, ino threw herself into the sea, together with her son melicertes. Hera is harsh persecutor to those who protect this son of zeus.
