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MIFOLOGIYA
THE PUNISHMENTS
fn1 It is a subtler name than that, for pan-dora can mean ‘all-giving’ as well as ‘allgiven’. fn2 It is said to have been Erasmus of all people, the great sixteenth-century scholar and Prince of Humanists, who misread Pandora’s pithos (jar) into pyxis (box). fn3 See Appendix, here . fn4 Foresight, but not prophecy … fn5 Another English word for a werewolf is lycanthrope, Greek for ‘wolf-man’. fn6 According to Ovid at least. Other sources suggest Mount Etna or Mount Athos. Round about the same time Noah was landing on Mount Ararat. Archaeology confirms, it seems, that there really was a Great Flood. fn7 See Appendix here . fn8 Charon was also happy to receive a danake or danace, the Persian equivalent, later incorporated into ancient Greek currency. fn9 Virgil’s description of Aeneas’s visit to the underworld tells of the colour of Charon’s boat. fn10 The story of how Zeus seduced Europa will be told a little later on. fn11 The Canaries were Byron’s candidate for the Isles of the Blessed in his Don Juan. fn12 But not in France, despite the name of Paris’s grand thoroughfare, the Champs Elysées. PERSEPHONE AND THE CHARIOT fn1 She features prominently in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. fn2 Helios could be as dull and slow in the wits as he was bright and swift in the sunchariot. How he came to take over these duties from Apollo will be revealed later. fn3 Although some say this, I tend to believe that Pan (FAUNUS to the Romans) was older than the Olympians. Perhaps as old as nature itself. We will encounter him from time to time as we move forward. fn4 There were two Mount Idas – the Cretan one, Zeus’s birthplace, and another in Phrygia, Asia Minor – today’s Turkish Anatolia. This was the one from which Hermaphroditus hailed. fn5 The great museums of the world have hidden away treasures that represent intersex figures like Hermaphroditus. Many of these have only recently come to light, with exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and other leading institutions setting a trend for rediscovery of this neglected area. It coincides with a greater, societywide understanding of the fluidity of gender. Download 1.62 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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