Transcript Peitho Personified, Reified

Peitho Personified, Reified
Discussion
Peitho-Day Promotion!
“It is just and right and important, men of
Athens, ... that our relations with the gods
shall be piously maintained. Therefore ... we
have also sacrificed to Peitho.... Do you,
therefore, accept the blessings which the gods
bestow.” (Demosthenes Exordia 54)
Peitho-Day Promotion
Copywriters
Account executives
• Brain-storm pitches
• Vet pitches
– Aims?
– Means?
– Needs?
– Criteria?
• grounded in
readings!!
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• grounded in
readings!!
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Discussion: What We Were Doing
• brainstorming
• providing feedback
• employing
• critical perspective
persuasions
• taking your audience
into account
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Recap and Update
Phaedrus, peitho
Peithō Problematics
Opposites? Analogues?
peitho (persuasion) bia (force, violence)
verbal persuasion non-verbal persuasion
sexual persuasion non-sexual persuasion
Phaedrus: Dialectic v. Rhetoric
Dialectic
Rhetoric
• Dialogical
• Dynamic
• Truth-oriented
• Monological
• Static
• doxa-oriented
– wiser few
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– ignorant many
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Peitho / peithō
Cult, Allegory, Myth
Peithō: Word Notes
• peithesthai
• “Peitho”
– “obey/comply”
• peithein
– female name
• peithō
– “persuade”
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– feminine noun
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Allegory-Personification
• Oceanid
• Hesiod Theogony 349-363, Pherecydides of
Athens F 66
• Aphrodite’s daughter
• Sappho fr. 90
• Kinship cont’d…
• Fortune’s (Tukhe’s) mother
• Foresight’s (Promathea’s) daughter
• Alcman fr. 64
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Peitho, Pandora in Hesiod
“… and the divine Graces and queenly Peitho put
necklaces of gold upon her, ….” (Works and Days)
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Homer: Aphrodite’s “Girdle”
“As [Aphrodite] spoke she loosed from her
bosom the curiously embroidered girdle
into which all her charms had been
wrought - love, desire, and that sweet
flattery which steals the judgment even of
the most prudent.” (Homer Iliad 14.214-217)
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More Myth: Trojan War. . .
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Myth Summary
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Judgment of Paris
Abduction of Helen
Sack of Troy
Returns
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Aphrodite, Eros, Harmonia, bride, Peitho, Hebe, Himeros
Athenian RF, ca. 420 BCE
Seduction-Consolation of Helen, Neo-Attic relief, 2nd 1/4 1st cent. BCE. Naples.
Alexandros (Paris)
Peitho
Eros
Helen
Aphrodite
Seduction-Consolation of Helen, Neo-Attic relief, 2nd 1/4 1st cent. BCE. Naples.
Peitho
Menelaus
Eros
Aphrodite
Athenian RF vase, ca. 425 BCE
Helen
“Makron Vase” – early 5th BCE,
Athenian
Eros
Aeneas
Alexandros Helen
(Paris)
Aphrodite
Peitho
Sappho’s “Hymn to Aphrodite”
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Sappho’s “Ally”
“… don't let me be overcome with fevers and pains”
“Now who is it I'm to persuade (peithein) to bring
you back into her heart? Who is it, Sappho, who
wrongs you?”
"For if she now flees you, soon she will be chasing
you. And if she won't accept your gifts, she'll instead
be trying to give gifts to you. And if she doesn't love
you, soon she will love you whether she likes it or
not."
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Sexual-Political Peitho, Aphrodite
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Pausanias Description of Greece 1.22.4
When Theseus had united into one state the many
Athenian demes, he established the cult of
Aphrodite Pandemos [Aphrodite “Of the Whole
People”?] and of Persuasion.
Nicander of Colophon, quoted by Athenaeus
[Solon established public prostitution at Athens “for
… youths in their prime.” Founds cult of Aphrodite
Pandemos with proceeds.]
Peitho Gender-Bender. . .
• female deities as
masculinized
• persuasion heavily
feminized
• Pandora –
persuasion as a
beautiful evil
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