1. Seminar Groups: Week 4 Seminar week 4: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite – Tuesday 22nd October Group A: 5-6pm S0.20 Addy-Laverick Group B: 6-7pm S0.19 Learoyd-Hurst-Platt Group C: 7-8pm SO.19 Sharples-Worboys

2. Sex Goddesses: Aphrodite & Eos

3. Lecture overview The connection between sex and the sacred – how did goddesses help the Greeks deal with female desire? Who is Aphrodite? Birth and role in myth Aphrodite and the sacred – Adonia Sacred Prostitution – myth or reality? What is Eos? Eos is pursuit of love

4. Birth of Aphrodite Varied accounts of birth in Hesiod and Homer Born out of the sea foam and severed testicles of Ouranos – Hesiod Homer – she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione

5. Aphrodite’s infidelity Odyssey, 8.306-20 The trap set by Hephaistos for Aphrodite and Ares Hephaistos demands the return of his wooing gifts

6. Judgement of Paris No details in The Iliad, recorded in Kypria A myth that evolves over time

7. The Matchmaker Iliad – 14.188-223 Hera asks Aphrodite for a loan of strips of material she wears close to her breast Aphrodite is the matchmaker – makes the gods fall in love with mortals Her affair with Anchises in Zeus’ revenge

8. Aphrodite’s other love - Adonis Red-figure hydria, 450-400

9. The Adonia Women’s festival – attended by courtesans and citizen women Celebrations held in private houses The Gardens of Adonis

10. Cult of Aphrodite Cults throughout Greece Evidence that Aphrodite acted as a healing goddess Aphrodite worshipped in different epiphets; Aphrodite Hetaria (Companion)

11. Aphrodite and Prostitutes Evidence of prostitutes at the temples of Aphrodite – Machon, temple at Corinth Dedication by hetariai to Aphrodite at Samos, Aphrodite in the reeds, Alexis of Samos

12. Sacred Prostitution – Myth or reality? Mistranslation? False accusation? A historical reality?

13. Sacred Prostitution at Pyrgi

14. Eos (Dawn) – the sex predator

15. Eos and Tithonos Menelaus and Helen Zeus pursuing a female

16. Eos pursuing Kephalos Youth running toward man Red-figure krater

17. The grieving mother Eos carrying her son, Memnon Red-figure pelike

18. Seminar Groups: Week 4 Seminar week 4: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite – Tuesday 22nd October Group A: 5-6pm S0.20 Addy-Laverick Group B: 6-7pm S0.19 Learoyd-Hurst-Platt Group C: 7-8pm SO.19 Sharples-Worboys