HUMA 1105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Lovesickness, Innocent Victims, Hubris
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Zeus/jupiter came to him disguised, but lycaon refused to recognize him. Daphne and apollo: apollo is god of the sun, among other things. Daphne is a nymph and the daughter of a river god. She catches apollo"s eye but is to remain unmarried. Cupid/eros shoots two arrows, one at apollo to make him lust after daphne, and one at daphne to make her flee from him and hate him. Daphne pleaded to her father, peneus, a river god to save her and so he turned her into a laurel tree. After daphne had been transformed into a laurel, apollo made the plant sacred and vowed to wear it as clothing. Love vs lust in myth: forms changed into new bodies, female resistance to violence, sexual violence in myth, the dangers of eros, unfair punishments and innocent victims in myth, voice and voicelessness. He rapes her, and when juno/hera becomes suspicious,
