CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Venus Callipyge, Cronus, Headache

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Cronus had a fear of the youth taking over the old, after he overtook uranus: once in power he inherited fear. Metis: before marrying rhea, zeus married metis. She gave the potion to cronus so that he would throw up the children: after marrying metis she became pregnant. After this event having swallowed wisdom zeus developed a massive headache and hephaestus to help with this headache and pressure hit zeus in the head with an axe and after zeus"s head was split open. Athena is the projection of zeus"s wisdom herself she is the goddess of wisdom. She has a male attitude since she was born from her father: attached to male causes males can identify with her in greek myths. She is also a goddess of war compliments ares, the god of savagery: she is a virgin. This suggests she has never been beaten in the war of love: therefore athena is seen as an unattainable beauty.