week 4 Flashcards
OOPs no tuesday lecture notes
Adonis family tree
Phyrgia
PHRYGIA
- one claim to paint
- the Egyptians believed that they were the oldest people
Psamtik:
- hes not gonna repeat this story (he wanted to do an experiment to prove it)
- took 2 babies, snatched awy from parants
given to mute nurses (children were nver hear word uttered) - write down what they say if they ever do
babies were saying bekos (ppl though it was oldest word in the world)
didnt know what language it was (sent ppl to find out)
its a word in phrygian (bread)
maybe meant bake in english
- psamtik declared that phrygian was oldest language on earth
Phrygian Myths (castration related)
Mater Kubeleya (Mountain Mother)
- had a son called gender dysphormia
- trans woman by castrating himself
- his cut off penis became almond tree when fell on ground
- girl ate one of the nuts and became pregnant
haha NUTS
- child became Atthis (also castrated himself)
mountain mother (i think) was closely related to Aphrodite
new gods were not a threat in this world
kubeleya was welcomed (counterpart ot aphrodite
- servants of her ALSO castrated themselves
preists of cybele were known as Galli (also castrated)
Plato and Socrates
plato used to be playwright before he met socrates (then he burned all his tragedies after meeting him)
Socrates believed no one does wrong willingly
- if they’re doing it they believe it is good for their soul true to themselves.
- wrongdoing is because they’re confused
Athenians thoughts on love
man had to wait till he was 40 to marry 12 year old girl
- before then an is encouraged to chase after young boys??? wtf??
- the boy is beloved? whose role is to shun the gifts and favours and compliments of the older man
Soulmates and Belly Buttons
zeus send hephaestus to saw us all in half, twists head and sews us back tgether, thats why we have belly button (we have to rememeber we were part of a larger being before. (so we can’t take over olympus)
THAT’S why we are looking for our other half (the one that used to belong to us)
soulmates
whole groups used to be either full male or full female or mixd which explains the gays and the heteros
Sophistes
- professional wise man, sophist
taught public speaking lessons
sophos
wise / skilled at living
Philo-Sophos
lover of wisdom,
amateur (meaning for free and for fun) philosopher
women
were considered to have superior religious blank (i missed what he said)
silly belief
whatever is beautiful is also good
its good to love beauty
sex is the ladder that leads from erotic desire that leads to desire to virtue
Eros
sexual love
child of poros and penia
poros: Resource pasage way (to avoid obstacle)
like pore in the skin
penia: poverty
Diotima says Eros is not perfectly beuatuiful
love means to need something
which means you lack something
which means you cant be perfect
therefore Eros is not fully beautiful
socrates was supposed to be midway to beautiful and to ugly (oop)
to be prist of cybele you had to be
castrated
pygmalion fell i love with….
a statue
artemis and aphrodite are prone to jeluousy and revenge, not very nice
hecate
fork in the rode
- shes a which goddes
- worshiped at night at monligth
- associated with artemis
you have to chose which way to go (forks in the roads were known as uncanny )
Oedipus:
- must have been adopted
-parents deny
- goes to delphi asks oracle who are his parents
- heads off away from his home
- comes to fork in the road, wants to turn left but theres an old guy
- kills old guy
Artemis
creepy stuff happens in foks of croads
Calysto
- follower of artemis
- contract is no sex
- super beautiful
- zeus raped her
- becomes pregnant
- greeks blamed her (effect of action more important than its cause)
shes got to be punished.
artemis waits for birth
names bear (ARCAS)
she turns calisto into actual bear
ARCAS
- about to kill his mom (cuz he doesn’t know its her)
- zeus rescues situation turns them both into stars and they form the constellation of the great bear
girls were sent to artemis sanctuary to becomes bears and play bear (like scouts??)
Artemis was might have originally suposed to be bear shaped goddes (arketmis )
she is mistress of animals, looks after them
Apollo and Artemis
lukeious sounds like Lukos which means wolf
if artemis was bear
and then apollo was wolf
Amazons
associated to artemis
- not virgins
remarkably male aversed (only only women society)
name from old persian word ofr warriors
fought from horseback
greeks say the A (reverses meaning) Mazon = breasts?? so meaning no breasts??? (helps with archery)
kind of makes sense??
These women would rape men, get pregnant than go back to forrest
would give boys away (ship them back)
Hippolytus based i euripdes
Euripides kept greetng third place (last)
a character with veil no words, half the play is ppl guessing who tf is that and what are they gonna say
Uh oh, sophacles made a similar play that one 1st
Euripedes couldnt handle it
wrote a new hippolytus (the survuved)
he got first for it
Hipoytus is a bastard child, mom hippolyta sent him back to theseus (his father the king)
Phaedra (married wife of theseus)
she the daughter of minos and pasiphae, one day they her parents had a bull but kept it cuz he liked it
zeus gave pasiphae desire to have sex with bull (she built a fake cow to have sex with the bull)
gave birth to Minotaur
ppl are like well built a labyrinth to hid him in
theseus, with assitance of one of minos daughters defeats the bull
hippolytus loved artemis, so he stole aphrodite
makes pheadra fall in love with him (shes already married AND to the father of hypolities)
