CLAS 1P95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anchises, Temple Of Hephaestus, Cinyras
19 Dec 2016
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Goddess of sex to physical creation of new life; works of aphrodite . Vary old mesopotamian goddess assossiated with astart, lilith. Calls on venus as supreme force of nature. As symbols of aphrodite, these birds become associated with sex in ancient literature. Plato has a character to emphasize a difference in his symposium . Cults: corinth - acrocorinth, ritual prostitution, seen in mesopotamian cults earlier. Sparta: armed aphrodite, love as a battle, romans have a similar concept. Cyprus: cypria as an epithet, paphos - aphrodite was said to have come ashore here. Kythera: island between greece and crete, another possible landing site. Daughter of ouranos (hesiod: aphros = sea foam, ouranos" lust in a female form. Daughter of zeus and dione (homer: dione - mrs. Zeus : feminine form of zeus" name, homer sees zeus as a family patriarch. Charities (graces: like dionysus, aphrodite has attendants, they represent everything which makes women attractive to men.
