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Chapter Seven, Lecture Two

Chapter Seven, Lecture Two. Myths of the Olympians. Hephaestus. The “blacksmith” god Zeus and Hera or just Hera Lame blacksmith god or just god of the manual crafts and metal working; sometimes just fire. Shows some contempt for labor. Hephaestus.

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Chapter Seven, Lecture Two

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  1. Chapter Seven, Lecture Two Myths of the Olympians

  2. Hephaestus • The “blacksmith” god • Zeus and Hera or just Hera • Lame blacksmith god or just god of the manual crafts and metal working; sometimes just fire. • Shows some contempt for labor

  3. Hephaestus • Island is Lemnos, where he may have landed after being thrown out from Olympus • Assisted by Cyclopes and golden robots • Married as a joke to Aphrodite • Once trapped Hera in a throne: released her after Dionysus (god of wine) got him drunk and brought him to Olympus

  4. Ares • Son of Zeus and Hera • Blood-lust in battle • Greeks preferred Athena as goddess of strategy in war • Few myths • Disgracefully wounded at Troy by Athena and Diomedes

  5. Ares • Best known for adultery with Aphrodite • Caught in flagrante delicto by Hephaestus • Fear (Phobos), Panic (Deimos)

  6. Hermes • Son of Zeus and Maia • Bizarre complexity of attributes: • The ram, the herd, herdsmen, travelers, messengers, liars, thieves, businessmen, leaders of souls to the underworld (psychopompos), orators

  7. Hermes • Epithet: Argeïphontes (slayer of Argos) • Iconography: traveler’s hat, winged sandals, caduceus • The Herm • Erect phallus wards off aggression

  8. Hermes • The Homeric Hymn to Hermes • The early achievements of Hermes • The trickster • Invents: sneakers, the lyre, sausage . . . • Conflict between the old aristocrats and the new class of capitalists and men of industry

  9. Hermes • Beings associated with Hermes • Autolycus (son) • master thief – could make himself invisible • father of Odysseus • Pan (son) (to feed?) • shows fertility side of Hermes • Syrinx (Pan pipes) • “Panic” of the solitude of the woods • Echo (loved by Hermes) got into trouble with Hera

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