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Plato’s Symposium ● House of Agathon ● Speeches on Eros: Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Aristophanes’ Speech ● Idea that human beings used to have 2 heads and 4 arms. ● Was a punishment of Zeus and they were split. ● Three original sexes; female, male, and androgynous. Socrates’ Speech ● Diotima, a woman from Mantinea. ● Eros as intermediary ● Poros (“resourcefulness”) ● Penia (“poverty”) ● Pursuit of the beautiful and the good. ● Interpretations. ● Socrates and Eros; Platonic love, Socrates and Alcibiades Cupid and Psyche ● Apuleius (second century A.D) ● Metamorphoses (or The Golden Ass) ● Elements of folktale, fairytale, and romance. ● Platonic interpretation. Sappho’s Aphrodite ● Lesbos ● Devotion to Aphrodite Introduction ● Character and appearance of Arthemis. ● Beautiful, virginal, huntress. ● Closeness of Artemis and Apollo with their cult places in Asia Minor. The birth of Artemis and Apollo ● Zeus and Leto ● Delos ● Goddess of childbirth (a function she shares with Eileithyia) ● Artemis and the death of young girls ● Apollo and the death of young boys. Niobe and her children ● Hubris ● Transformation to stone Callisto and Arcas ● Zeus and Callisto ● Anger of Hera ● Arcas as Hunter ● Great Bear (Arctus, or Ursa major, or the Wain [Hamaxa])

● Bear Warden (Arcturus) ● Little Bear (Ursa Minor) ______________________________________________________________________

Apollo ● Zeus and Leto ● The Homeric Hymn to Apollo: ● First Part: To Delian Apollo: Apollo and song, Leto’s wandering, Delios accepts Leto, Leto gives birth to Apollo, Eileithyia assists Leto, and Festival to Apollo at Delos. Apollo and Delos ● Delos sacred to Apollo ● Impressive archaeological remains ● Story of Anius: Anius, son of Apollo, king of Delos. Three daughters; Elois (“olive girl”), Spermo (“seed girl”), and Jeno(“ Apollo and Delphi ● Hymn to Apollo (second part) to Phythian Apollo (appendix) ● Phythian Apollo god of Delphi ● Foundation of oracle at Crisa under Mt. Parnassus ● Slaying of Pytho ● Pytho ● Ge-Themis ● Omphalos (“navel”) ● Cretan sailors and the connection with the dolphin. ● Apollo Delphinius. ● Panhellenic sanctuary. ● Pythian games The oracle and the Pythia at Delphi ● The Pythia priestess of Apollo. ● Tripod. ● Oracular utterances-> epic meter (dactylic hexameter) ● Castalian Spring ● Procedure for inquiry of the oracle. ● Apollo Loxias. ● Socrates and the Delphic Oracle. Apollo and Cassandra ● Apollo gave her a prophecy but added a curse to it since he can’t take it back. ● Cursed to be a Phrophtess that no one believes. Apollo and Daphne ● Daphne (“Laurel”) ● Daphne, daughter of Peneus

● Apollo and Cupid’s argument Apollo and Cyparissus ● Cyparissus accidentally kills his stag....