CLAS 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lightning, Thumos, Odysseus
26 Mar 2018
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Midterm change: online friday 2/16: 11:30-12:30, mc w/ one s. a. Mother (with poseidon) of a talking horse named areion. But the first part is trickier to decode. De- each of these relate to agriculture b. c. 3. may be connected with ge/gaia (in the doric dialect of greek) making demeter an. "earth-mother", this may also connect her to poseidon, the "earth-shaker" in an old version of his name posei-da-on. May be connected with a cretan word for grain, making her the "grain mother" May be connected with a pie word for house (dem from which we get domicile"), which would make her the "mother of the house" Daughter of demeter, married to hades, goddess of vegetation and fertility. Hades is the god of everything under the earth, such as decomposed bodies, agriculture emerging from the underworld through the ground ii. Also called kore ("the girl"), she blends human and agricultural lifecycles.
