Flora Unveiled
188 i Flora Unveiled There follows a lengthy interlude in which Demeter travels to Eleusis and establishes her temple there. At ...
The “Plantheon” j 189 189 189 The myth of Demeter and Persephone resonated with the Greeks on multiple levels. The most widely c ...
190 i Flora Unveiled passageway, evoking fertility and the Underworld. After depositing their burdens at the temple of Aphrodite ...
The “Plantheon” j 191 191 191 Fast- forwarding to Roman times, Ovid, in his epic poem Metamorphoses, compiled Greek myths in whi ...
192 i Flora Unveiled According to Marcel Detienne, Aristophanes’s use of the name “Little Myrtle” is highly appropriate for a se ...
The “Plantheon” j 193 193 193 Several other minor female vegetation deities underwent metamorphoses into plants to escape sexual ...
Figure 7.5 Statue of Daphne and Apollo (1622– 24) by Gianlorenzo Bernini. Daphne is metamorphosing into a laurel tree to escape ...
The “Plantheon” j 195 195 195 Youthful Male Vegetation Deities Although most Greek vegetation deities were female, some were mal ...
196 i Flora Unveiled The festival focused on the carnal aspects of Aphrodite’s obsession with Adonis. Plants played a key role i ...
The “Plantheon” j 197 197 197 The myth of Hyacinthus, best known in Sparta, also involves the premature death of a handsome yout ...
198 i Flora Unveiled The story of Dionysus’s birth reprises the theme of Zeus’s procreative power, first dem- onstrated by Athen ...
The “Plantheon” j 199 199 199 The women’s rites of Dionysus were ecstatic spiritual experiences that went well beyond the confin ...
200 i Flora Unveiled Aeschylus’s Furies: Ancient Agricultural Goddesses Beginning in the sixth century in Ionia, ancient myth an ...
The “Plantheon” j 201 201 201 judges are divided, leaving it to Athena to cast the deciding vote. Her own birth having been cite ...
202 i Flora Unveiled The few surviving fragments of the poem leave out most of the details of the story. However, it appears tha ...
The “Plantheon” j 203 203 203 to all their offerings and devotions, but at the same time they couldn’t let them get altogether o ...
204 i Flora Unveiled Significantly, Salmacis’s embrace of Hermaphrodite is compared to the grafting of trees. Salmacis is, in fa ...
205 205 (a) Figure 7.8 Statues of Hermaphrodite. A. Hellenistic or Roman replica in marble of bronze original, possibly dating t ...
(b) (c) Figure 7.8 Continued ...
The “Plantheon” j 207 207 207 In general, then, we can say that the Greeks held two views about hermaphrodism. Hermaphrodism in ...
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