CLS 121 Final: mythology
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Symposium - plato"s symposium elaborates upon this distinction and claims that aphrodite. Urania, the older of the two, is stronger, more intelligent, and spiritual, whereas aphrodite. Pandemos, born from both sexes, is more base, and devoted primarily to physical satisfaction. The symposium of plato provides a most profound analysis of the manifold nature and power of love, especially in terms of a conception of eros; a drinking party. Potnia theron - artemis eastern mistress of animals . Arkteia - at the attic site, or brauron, in the rite called arkteia, girls representing the polis of. Omphalos - an archaic stone shaped like an egg, which was kept in the temple during the classical period, seems to confirm an early habitation of the site. Legend has it that this omphalos (the word means navel) signified that delphi actually occupied the physical center of the earth.
