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Demeter
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-Fertility goddess of the soil.
-Roman: Ceres; da or de (earth). -Daughter Persephone (Zeus) |
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Demeter at Eleusis
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-Zeus makes deal with Hades so he can have Persephone.
-Roams earth for 9 days and mourns -ends up at Eleusis where maidens find her (daughters of Celeus) and gets nanny position for Demphoon son of Metanaira...reveals herself. |
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Demophoon
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-Demeter tries to turn him immortal but his mother sees this as abuse because Demeter holds him over fire.
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Iambe
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-servant that makes Demeter feel at home when she stays in Eleusis.
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Agreement with Hades & Demeter
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-Hermes visits Hades and strikes deal.
-Persephone allowed to visit Demeter. -Pomegrante seed -1/3 of year Persephone in underworl |
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Themosphoria
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-Holiday in honor of Demeter.
-Autumn festival -assembly of women and period of fasting |
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Eleusinian Mysteries
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-Hopsitality of Dmeter gave Eleusins certain rights in Eleusis (center for Demeter's worship).
-Belief in Immortality of the soul and a future life. -Interval of 9 days: fasting, carry torches, and exchange of jests (Iambe) |
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Aphrodite (Venus)
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-born from foam in sea (castration)
-Sacred sites: Cytherea and Cypris (also epithets) -possibly originated from eastern goddesses of fertility Innanna, Ishtar or Astarte |
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Pygmalion
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-Cyprus
-Aphrodite turns women into prostitutes -Pygmalion turns away from women and falls in love with sculpture/statue and Aphrodite makes it come to life. |
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Hephaestus and Aphrodite
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-married
-In Theogony Hephaistos has other wives -Aphrodite has affair with Ares and Hephaestus catches them (Demodocus sings of this in Odyssey) |
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Aphrodite and Ares
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-Depicted as married according to Pinder, Aeschylus, and Francois vase.
-Have affair that gods witness -Children: Eros (cupid), Demos (terror) and Phobos (fear), and Harmonia |
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Hermaphroditus
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-child of Aphrodite and Hermes
-Salmacis, a nymph, falls in love with him and jumps on him when bathing and they weld together--origin of Hermphrodite |
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Priapus
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-part scarecrow, part bringer of luck, part guardian against theives
-eternally erect phallus -symbol of fertility and wards off evil eye |
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Anchises
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-father of Aeneas (ancestor of Romans), Trojan hero, lives on Mt. Ida
-Zeus has Aphrodite fall for Anchises and has son Aeneas -told not to mention relations but does and is either stricken blind or crippled. |
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Adonis
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-son of Cinyras and Myrrha
-mother refused to honor Aphrodite and she tricked her father to have affair with her, father tries to kill her, and she turns into tree but gives birth -Aphrodite falls for him b/c of Cupid's arrows; killed by boar |
