CLASSIC 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Salmacis, Homeric Hymns, Hermaphroditus
12 Oct 2016
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Iii: very young, portrayed as youth, lot of times holding baby dionysus. Herms: stone pillar/stone pile with hermes" head and philus sticking out: placed at boudnaries, milestones, crossroads, meanings: fertility, luck, sacred, mutilation of the herms (at athens): political, civil, sacred crime. Hermes + aphrodite: both fertility associated god and goddess, hemaphroditus (ovid, metamorphoses, beautiful, chaste; loved by salmacis, gets merged into one after this, anyone who goes into the pool of. Salmacis has the same fate: hermaphroditus: sometimes with wings and as erotes, ovid: fertility demigod, double nature, hermes+penelope=pan; hermes=zeus +maia(daughter of atlas) Apollo?: apollo given lyre; he gives golden staff of posterity, cattle, but cannot give power of prophesy gives hermes 3 sisters who can prophesize, young gods: later addition; not strong/physical strength as other gods, hermes power: trickery (mental) Hephaestus, the craftsman: invented for gods and kings, armor for heroes war association, assistants: cyclops, golden maidens, his forge: mt.
