上浒文通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Demeter and Persephone Wu Shiyu 漏 SHANG 1日gG ERSIT
Demeter and Persephone Wu Shiyu
上游充通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY How to pronounce Aphrodite;Mnemosyne; ©Socrates;Achilles Demeter,Persephone Hades (receiver of all),Tartaros
How to pronounce Aphrodite; Mnemosyne; Socrates; Achilles Demeter, Persephone Hades (receiver of all), Tartaros
上游充通大兽 Demeter(德墨忒尔) SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY The goddess of: grain and agriculture
Demeter (德墨忒尔 ) The goddess of: grain and agriculture
上游充通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Daughter ④Zeus and Demeter DEMETER mated once and produced a daughter Persephone
Daughter Zeus and Demeter mated once and produced a daughter Persephone
上游充通大兽 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Persephone The daughter of Zeus and the harvest goddess Demeter(P.19) The return of Perscphone
Persephone The daughter of Zeus and the harvest goddess Demeter (P.19)
上游充大学 Persephone's Abduction SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Hades seizes Persephone picking flowers in a field Hades takes her down to the Tartaros with him to be his bride. Hades seldom leaves Tartaros; With Zeus's permission,Hades goes out of the Underworld; Video(Hades)
Persephone’s Abduction Hades seizes Persephone picking flowers in a field Hades takes her down to the Tartaros with him to be his bride. Hades seldom leaves Tartaros; With Zeus’s permission, Hades goes out of the Underworld; Video (Hades)
上游充通大兽 Famine by Demeter SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Sad Not know what happened to her daughter Wanders,looking for Causing famine No grain grow 国 Humanity death(starve)
Famine by Demeter Sad Not know what happened to her daughter Wanders, looking for Causing famine No grain grow Humanity death (starve)
上游充通大兽 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Zeus order Hades ©Return Persephone permanently Persephone ate a seed of pomegranate Can't leave Tartaros permanently
Zeus order Hades Return Persephone permanently Persephone ate a seed of pomegranate Can’t leave Tartaros permanently
上游充大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY © One-third of the year in Hades ④ Two-thirds of the year with her mother The four seasons of the year
One-third of the year in Hades Two-thirds of the year with her mother The four seasons of the year
上浒充通大学 SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Implications Demeter's search for Persephone tells us: 1.Actual Greek marriage practices (contract); 2.Persephone marries her own uncle; © 3.Marriage in Athens was "patrilocal.";separation between mother and daughter; 国 4.Human experience of death and separation. Olympians can't or don't go to Tartaros (Hermes, Hades) Psychological interpretation:wish-fulfillment
Implications Demeter’s search for Persephone tells us: 1.Actual Greek marriage practices (contract); 2. Persephone marries her own uncle; 3. Marriage in Athens was “patrilocal.”; separation between mother and daughter; 4. Human experience of death and separation. Olympians can’t or don’t go to Tartaros (Hermes, Hades) Psychological interpretation: wish-fulfillment
