CLST 2090 Lecture : Week 4 Notes
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Week 4) roman and greek mythology 9/11/2012 5:36:00 am. She asked what was wrong: myrrha blurted out that she was lovesick and she wanted to sleep with her father, the old women only cared about the health and happiness of myrrha. Went to father and told him that a young girl in the community wanted to sleep with him. The greek community was rather small and he figured he would know the girl he was sleeping with. One night instead of turning off the lamp, he put it in the cupboard. During the time he was having sex he pulled out the lamp and saw that he was having sex with his own daughter. Enraged that he was tricked and had been committing incest he tried to kill myrrha. Adonis, tearing his belly open thus killing him: aphrodite was torn to grief and asked the other gods to bring.
