CLCV 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inanna, Astarte, Hermaphroditus
19 May 2014
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Give three examples of goddesses who exemply this principle. Give two examples from the goddesses studied in this chapter. Blending religious systems equating foreign gods w/ greek. Aphrodite was demoted to be the daughter of zeus, artemis used to be eastern mother goddess now daughter of zeus. He was at the start of the world or he is the son of aphrodite and ares. Temple prostitution: name three of aphrodite"s children. Makes her fall in love with her father because it was said that she was more beautiful than. He was herding sheep and playing the lyre when she found him. She pretends to be a mortal whose father"s name is otreus- a hero. He cant say that he slept with aphrodite. He doesn"t obey her: what happens to the mortal/who mates with a goddess undying in the homeric hymn to aphrodite. Give at least one other example of a mortal who suffers from an affair with a goddess.
