CLAS 2000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Praxiteles, Aphrodite Urania, Astarte

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

Document Summary

Chapter 9: aphrodite and eros: hesiod describes the birth of aphrodite after the castration of uranus and derives her name from the greek word aphros (foam) Aphrodite pandemos, born from both sexes, is more base, and devotes primarily to physical satisfaction. It is imperative to understand that the aphrodite who sprang from uranus becomes, for philosophy and religion, the celestial goddess of pure and spiritual love and the antithesis of. Aphrodite, daughter of zeus and dione, the goddess of physical attraction and procreation: the nature and appearance of aphrodite. In general aphrodite is the goddess of beauty, love, and marriage: the seductive allurement of this goddess was very great; she herself possessed a magic girdle with irresistible powers of enticement. Priapus: he is a fertility god, generally depicted as deformed and bearing a huge and erect phallus. In the jaded society of later antiquity, his worship meant little more than a cult of sophisticated pornography: pygmalion.