CLASSIC 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cult Of Artemis At Brauron, Actaeon, Childbirth
24 Sep 2016
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Aphrodite (cytherea, cypris) (roman: venus: epithets: cypria, cytherea, urania, pandemos, laughter-loving, genital- loving, golden, foam-born , animals: dove, swan, sparrow, goose, tortoise, ram b. i. Lots of association with animals with wings b. ii. Birth of aphrodite: uranus" genital + ocean foam, zeus + dione( female version of zeus, divine , honored at dodona, goddess of procreation, uranus + hemera(day) Aphrodite urania and aphrodite pandemos: urania: older, wiser, spiritual, sublime, philosophical (born from gential of. Iii: pandemos: (meaning all/common people), physical, variation from marriage to prostitution(some evidence suggest she was respected by the prostitutes as their goddess) Priapus: masculine god of fertility, good luck, guardian against thieves a. i. father: hermes, dionysus, pan (and sometimes adonis, zeus, son of aphrodite, has exaggerated genitals(the greeks thought of genitals as good luck) Vi: comic, obscene shows the pandemos side of aphrodite. Eros(roman: cupid: birth: theogony/aphrodite + ares (from older god young male child, portrayed youth and homosexuality, and was the idealized male beauty.
