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
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