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Chapter 9 Lecture One of Two Myths of the Female Deities: Demeter, Hestia, Aphrodite ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

The Female Olympians Mostly reducible to some aspect of fertility Greek myth told by and for Greek males With the exception of Aphrodite and Athena, they never do very much ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

DEMETER, MISTRESS OF WHEAT The goddess of the harvest. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Demeter “Wheat” mother? Connection with foundation myth of the Eleusinian Mysteries will be discussed in a separate chapter. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

HESTIA, THE HEARTH The eldest child of Zeus and Hera. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Hestia Goddess of the house. Few stories (she’s inside all the time). No love affairs. Had suitors briefly: Apollo and Poseidon. Given honor instead of marriage. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

APHRODITE, GODDESS OF SEXUAL LOVE The power of sexual attraction. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Aphrodite Goddess of sexuality Her lineage – As Aphrodite – Zeus and Dione Connections with Eastern deities – Istarte, Ishtar, Inanna ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

PERSPECTIVE 9 Venus: Images of Beauty in European Art ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Perspective 9a Botticelli: Birth of Venus ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York

Perspective 9b: de Cosimo Venus and Mars ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Gemaldegalerie; Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/ Art Resource, New York

Perspective 9c: Veronese: Venus and Adonis ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. Museo del Prado, Madrid; Scala/White Images/ Art Resource, New York

Perspective 9d: Veláquez: Toilet of Venus ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. ©National Gallery, London; Art Resource, New York

Aphrodite Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite celebrates the goddess power over even the unwilling. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

HERMAPHRODITUS AND PRIAPUS Children by various male deities or associated powers. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Hermaphroditus and Priapus Hermaphroditus has qualities of both sexes because he was fused with the nymph Salmacis when she prayed to Aphrodite that they never be parted. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Hermaphroditus and Priapus Priapus – Aphrodite and Dionysus or Hermes – Asian garden deity – “priapism” ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Fig. 9.1 Priapus weighs his penis. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. Pompeii, House of the Vettii; Scala/Art Resource, New York

PYGMALION The inspiration for Shaw's play Pygmalion and the musical My Fair Lady. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Pygmalion Pygmalion, the king of Cyprus, makes a statue of his image of the perfect women, with which he promptly falls in love. Aphrodite brings his statue to life for him. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Pygmalion The girl, named Galatea, gave brith to Cinyras ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Pygmalion Cinyras’s wife boasts that Myrrha is more beautiful than Aphrodite herself. Aphrodite inflicts Myrrha with a passion for her father, Cinyras. Cinyras lured into sex with her Enraged, he chases her until she turns into the myrrh tree ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Aphrodite Her tears are myrrh resin, burned on Aphrodite’s altar – an etiological myth From the myrrh tree, Adonis is born Semitic name: “lord,” cf. Adonai, another name for YHWH in the Old Testament ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Fig. 9.2 The Capitoline Venus, a Roman copy of a lost statue from the Greek master, Praxiteles. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. Museo Capitolino, Rome; author’s photo

APHRODITE AND ANCHISES This explains how the Romans are ultimately descended from Venus. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Aphrodite and Anchises Anchises Prince of Troy Aphrodite “punished” by Zeus Made to fall in love with a mortal man “Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite” His “reward” will be to have a famous son, Aeneas ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

Aphrodite But he reveals the secret – that Aphrodite is Aeneas’s mother – and Zeus strikes him with a thunderbolt After that, he is lame Aeneas goes on to become the legendary founder of the Roman people after his escape from Troy. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

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