Transcript Demeter Powerpoint

Rape of
Persephone
IMPORTANT TERMS
Persephone/Proserpina
Hades/Aidoneius
Cerberus
Demeter/Ceres
John William Waterhouse
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Nicolo dell’Abate
Charles de la Fosse
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Peter Paul Rubens
Thomas Hart Benton
Frederic Leighton
Locri, votive relief, ca 480 BC
Demeter and Persephone
IMPORTANT TERMS
Aidoneus/Hades
Demeter
Demophoon
Docetism
dualism
Eleusis
Eleusinian Mysteries
Gaia
gnosticism
Demeter and Kore, “Exaltation
Hekate
Of the Flower”. Greek relief from
Helios
Pharsale, 470-460 B.C.
Hermes Psychopompos
Homer
Iambe
insights gained from myth
Irony
Metaneira
Monist
mystery religionso
oral composition
Persephone
repetition
Rhea
River Styx
use of epithets
Zeus/Kronides
Rape of
Persephone
Locri, votive relief, ca 480 BC
John William Waterhouse
Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may
painting date: 1909
Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
The Blessed
Damozel
1875-78
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard
University
From Royal Tomb I in Vergina
Greece
Nicolo dell’Abate (16th cent.)
Charles de la Fosse (17th cent.)
Extra Credit to the first person
who identifies the artist of this painting.
Luca Giordano (1634-1705)
Rembrandt 1632
Gian Lorenzo
Bernini
1598-1680
Boughese Gallery, Rome
CERBERUS
Peter Paul Rubens
[Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1577-1640]
Thomas Hart Benton
[American Regionalist
Painter, 1889-1975]
James Childs
The Return of
Persephone
Frederic Leighton
1890-91
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Homeric Hymn to Demeter
I. The Rape of
Persephone (1-39)
II. The Search for
Persephone (40-94)
III. Demeter at Eleusis (95302)
Oral composition
Use of epithets
repetition
IV. Famine and the Return
of Persephone (303-470)
Eleusis
The Cave of Hades at Eleusis
Greater Mysteries at Eleusis
nine day festival
every Sept.-Oct.
procession of sacred objects from Eleusis to
Athens
convocation of initiates in Athenian agora
ritual purification in the sea
sacrifice of a pig
procession back to Eleusis
ritual of the Telesterion
Political Significance of the Cult:
Athens and Eleusis
Views of Reality in Myth of Demeter
Homer: body and soul are one
(Monist)
Myth of Demeter: body and soul are
separate (Dualist)
Gnosticism: System of belief based
upon secret teaching revealed only to
initiates.
Docetism: a form of gnosticism which
teaches that our present life is only a
shadow of the real, divine life.
Greek Marriage Customs in Myth of
Demeter
Older man and younger woman
Women lived in house, men in public world
Bride betrothed by father
Hades and Persephone as loving couple
Gender Gap
Importance of the
mother/daughter bond
Mother’s struggle to keep her
child
Male violence against women
Limitations of the power of the
woman in Greek society
Matriarchy vs. patriarchy
(Bachofen’s Mother Right 1861)
Insights into the Myth of Demeter
Aetiological
Historical
Mystical or Metaphysical
Oral composition
Cosmological Use of epithets
repetition
Sociological
Psychological
Anthropological