CLAS 170 Lecture 4: CLAS170 LECTURE 4: The Story of Athena
8 Feb 2017
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In various ways the greeks sought to diminish the power of the once mighty great goddess to the advantage of their god of sky. Using both athena and aphrodite as examples, discuss why and how greek goddesses are reduced to second class citizens in olympus . Statues of athena often show her holding a winged creature called victory (nike) Earth was always an entity with no face. Mater mother in greek, source of all life. Reduced to matter in the hands of a creative male. Born from the head of zeus not from the body associated with sexuality. Farthest you can get from zeus" sexual identity. Athena was to be a virgin and want nothing to do with sex (asexual) Aphrodite the opposite, born from the genitals of ouranos. Aegis (ee-gis) contains the head of the gorgon medusa; authority, protection, worn by athena. Medusa once a beautiful woman with beautiful hair, raped by poseidon in the temple of.
