CLASSIC 45A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Kykeon, Human Reproduction, Piraeus
4 Oct 2018
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Tritonal power of the world: zeus (sky), posidon (sea), hades (underworld) Demeter/ceres is associated with mother (m t r)= mother earth; for others, demeter is connected with dais= food (and derivatively, barley : daughter of cronus and rhea, persephone < demeter + zeus. Aphrodite: aphros(foam) philommedes (lover of genitals-hesiod or laughter loving). Limenia (of the harbor: two birth accounts: in the iliad, zeus + dione > aphrodite. In the theogony, uranus"s castration creates foam that lands in either cyprus or cythera from which aphrodite is born. And the blood becomes the erinyes (female spirits of revenge: resembles ishtar from mesopotamia and hathor from egypt, offspring: erotes: eros (love), pothos (yearning), himeros (unrequited love). Hephaestus: cyllopodium (of dragging feet), polytechnes (?: two birth accounts: in homer, the son of zeus and hera. In hesiod, born of hera alone: lameness (a birth defect).
