Aphrodite

• Cytherea = Aphrodite

virgin goddesses

Athena

• war
• associated with men
• conception influenced by other gods from cultures

Aretemis

• feminine but helps men with hunt
  • non-binary conception
• combination of masculine and feminine

both of the above not involved whatsoever in sexuality

Hestia

• daughter of Cronos
• pursued by Poseidon and Apollo
  • swears oath

Zeus’s authority

• Hymn to Demeter — offer Persephone to Hades
• Hymn to Aphrodite — caused Aphrodite to fall in love with Anchises
• background operator
  • curbing power

Greek sexuality

• idea that sex causes some loss in men
• Ganymedes — good outcome
  • Zeus makes him cupbearer, immortal
• Ancient Greeks practice of pederasty
  • mentorship
  • sexual
  • homosocial culture
    • social seclusion of women
      • Pandora
• Tithonos
  • age forever bc Eos forgot to ask Zeus for eternal youth, too

Aphrodite says, “Listen up Anchises, snitches get stitches.” And he says, “Word.” — Professor Christopher Waldo

• Anchises fathered Aeneas
  • Aphrodite told him to keep it a secret, otherwise he would be struck down by Zeus’s thunderbolt
  • Guess what happened?