CL 222 1st EditionExam # 2 Study Guide Lectures: 8 - 14TEST 2 STUDY GUIDE- Aphrodite (Priapus, Eros)o Attributes- naked, elaborate clothes, eastern-style, dove/sparrow, apple, mirroro Birth, where? Cythera and Cyprus, out of the sea, o The Furies are her sisterso Book: Pygmalion, Sappho’s invocation to her, the magic girdle; Myrrha and Adoniso Husband = Hephaestuso Lover= Areso Priapus (apotropaic ) turns away evil spirits vestibules and gardenso Anchises + Aphrodite= Aeneas (descendants founded the Roman race) Aeneas on the coin of Caesar holding his dad and Palladium- Demeter and Persephoneo Persephone picks flowers (right before given to male)o Demeter’s search for Persephoneo Persephone ate Hades seedso Eleusinian Mysteries: kykeon (drink with LSD), Iambe(mocking girl in the cult), mystes (sworn to secrecy), sacrificial animal (pig), procession (Athens to Eleusis), reenactment of search for Persephone (RHPS), secret objectso Attributes: grains and torches, rooster, pomegranateo Demophoon (child that Demeter babysat) gets confused with Triptolemus (D and P sent him into the world to teach ag)o Kore (daughter)o Black Demeter: in book Poseidon raped Demeter and they had Arion (the horse) in the black Demeter story- Apolloo Epithets: Phoebus (bright shining), Loxian (ambiguous), Smintheus (god of meds (Mouse gods)), Leader of the Muses (interest in arts and music)o Asclepius: learned arts of meds, he rose people from the dead, Zeus struck him down forscrewing w/ the laws of natureo Miasma: moral pollutiono Apollo’s purification ritualso Python: killed monster guarding Delphio Connection to dolphins and wolves (god of rite of passage)o Attributes: bow and arrow and quiver, light on head, lyre, dolphins and wolveso Love affairs: Cassandra(prophesied the truth and no one believed), Daphne (aural leaves), Marpessa (left him because of his eternal youth), Sibyl (forgot to ask for eternal youth) Marpessa chose Idas because Apollo embodied perpetual youth- Dionysuso Semele: got pregnant with his him, TBBT, he was rescued by Zeus as she was being burnedo “twice-born”, power and the tree, thundering, god of wine, vital life force that pumps hisway through nature, not spirit animal, but divinityo Techniques for worshipping D and becoming “enthused”: wine, whirling, dancing, danger, loud music, ecstatic state, prepared acceptingo Sparagomos & Omophagia : tearing and eating animalo Carnival and Marti Graso Pentheuso Attributes: thyrsus (pine-cone on a stick), leopard, grape vines, Hera wanted to have him and so he dressed like a womano Naxos and pirates: he had to turn them into dolphins (Life of Pi)o Followers are satyrs NOT uniter in marriage- Cybeleo Magna Mater: great mother, of the mountainso Music of Cybele (tympanum), heavy-metal goddesso How did the priests show their devotion to Cybele? (semi-viri)o Drum, crown, oil/wine bulb, chariot of lionso Attis as a soteriological symbol: god who could save, regenerative, Cybele’s consorto What happened after he died? Hair still grew, could move pinky, buried but life goes ono What misgivings did the romans have about the cult of Cybele? Wild, irrational, misfits, unsureo When was the cult of Cybele introduced to Rome? 206 B.C, Romans brought Cybele to Rome to get help against Hannibal- Hecatae also has torches (her job was to manage spirits in the