GRS 200 Quiz: Athena and Poseidon GRS

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRS 200
• Professor: Bowman Laurel

Document Summary

Different groups participate in social practices differently. When a goddess falls in love with a young man, she carries him off, and will then keep him somewhere. Theogonis ends up trapped in the goddess of dawn"s locked bedroom. A person or thing changes into something else: metamorphoses. Arachne challenged athena at her weaving skills, bet i am better at x than a god or goddess. Athena disguises herself as a young woman, warns arachne. Athena weaves images of gods fighting the giants. Arachne weaves all the gods in inappropriate positions with mortals. Images a virgin goddess should not look at. Gods are humiliating themselves with mortals: arachne"s weave. Arachne tries to hang herself, athena turns her into a spider. Hephaestus, having assisted in athena"s birth, fell in love with athena (attempted to sexual assault. Sex is hierarchal, do not want athena to be subordinate to anyone. Is the virgin goddess to every city. her)