Lazy Holidays
Hooray! It’s holiday time! I’ve spent the last two days sleeping and reading with my family, playing games on my phone, and watching movies. It’s been blissful!
Hooray! It’s holiday time! I’ve spent the last two days sleeping and reading with my family, playing games on my phone, and watching movies. It’s been blissful!
The last few weeks I’ve focused on Hades’ abduction of Persephone. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter is really about Persephone coming of age and separating from her mother.
I’ve established that the “Rape of Persephone” refers to abduction rather than sexual assault. Rape by modern or ancient definition aside, Hades still abducted her.
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I have long comforted myself by saying the definition of rape was different for the ancients. As we found last week, it simply meant abduction, or kidnapping.
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