Aphrodite II
19/09/2007 12:00:00
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Sappho
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From Lesbos (7
th
/6
th
Century)
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Word Lesbian comes from Lesbos
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Wrote hymns to Aphrodite
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It is speculated that she is a lesbian, but not entirely evident
Sappho language
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Asks immortal daughter of Zeus to bring no pain
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She states that Aphrodite has helped before
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She requests that Aphrodite be her ally (diction: throne, chariot)
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Requests that Aphrodite make Sappho’s beloved love Sappho
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Offering to a Star of Venus
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Dove’s blood & fat
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Myrrh
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Wormwood
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Vulture brains = compulsion (element of dark magic)
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Tooth of ass or heifer = protection (protection from the divinity)
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Love Spell of Attraction (Anonymous)
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Begins by threatening to bind Adonis like the bind of Ixion in Hades (thus
preventing the rebirth of Adonis every Spring)
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Presents a hymn that praises the power of Aphrodite
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- Fall '07
- Mori
- Greek Mythology, Agamemnon, Symposium, Zeus, Sappho, Ares, De rerum natura
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