CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aphrodite Pandemos, Aphrodite Urania, Plaster Cast
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Image 1 = birth out of a shell, next to her is hermes. On see the depiction of the moving her to the shore of sea and eros left you winds, Plato"s symposium distinguishes between: aphrodite urania (and eros as principle of cohesion, aphrodite pandemos (and eros as the naughty boy with arrows) o. Aphrodite pandemos ( common aphrodite ) = daughter of zeus and. Dione (only comes up in this story) common aphrodite unknown, diotima. Socrates claims that he learned the true nature of eros from a woman otherwise o. She told him that eros is at the same time poor and rich, ignorant and knowledgeable. It reflects the idea of the androgynous human beings that existed before the 2 genders separated. So eros represents the constant strive to improve ones self he is essential for improvement o. After praxiteles" full standing statue aphrodite of cnidus (not extant) = nude.
