CLST 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Theogony, Eleusinian Mysteries, Greco-Roman Mysteries
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Sappho is summoning aphrodite to get her help b/c she loves someone who doesn"t love her back. The longer hymns (1-6) would be performed for more important occasions. Assert a particular location related to the god: god"s birth place or cult site, ex: cyllenian herme, lord of the cyllene and arcadia rich flocks . God"s accomplishments: ex: slayer of argus . Characteristic role in the pantheon: ex: luck-bringing messenger of the deathless gods . Lineage, genealogy, origin, birth: ex born of maia, the daughter of atlas, when she had made love with zeus . General characteristic of gods: ex: a shy goddess is she (talking about hermes" mother maia) she shyness explains the secrecy of zeus" affair with her hermes is a sneaky, clever, not shy god. Hesiod theogony starts with a hymn to the heliconian muses. Hymn to the muses is integrated in to the poem. Short hymns just talk about the characteristics of the gods.
