CLASSICS 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pirkei Avot, Clytemnestra, Castor And Pollux
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The olympian pantheon- competing symbols and the construction of identity. Evil eye is mentioned multiple times in pirkei avot: (ethis of our fathers, rabbi eliezer. An evil eye is worse than a bad friend, a bad neighbor, or an evil heart. Zeus transforms himself into a swan and rapes leda. Closely associated with the city of argos and the island state of samos. Major animating factor in numerous myths concerns hera"s jealousy toward the various women seduced by her husband: most dramatically expressed toward heracles. By the 10th century bce, family groups assume varying degrees of control over their communities: aristocracy. Aristoi = good" people: birth into such a family assumed element of social prerogative. Apollo- male youthful beauty, the sun, music, archery, disease. Artemis- female virginity, the moon, archery, disease, hunting: zeus (olympia), hera (argos, samos), apollo (delphi, delos, tenea) and artemis (delos,
