上海交通大学：《古希腊文明演绎（Greek Classics）》课程教学资源（PPT讲稿）Demeter and Persephone

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