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Peitho Personified, Reified

Peitho Personified, Reified. Discussion. Peitho-Day Promotion!.

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Peitho Personified, Reified

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  1. Peitho Personified, Reified

  2. Discussion Peitho-Day Promotion!

  3. “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)

  4. Peitho-Day Promotion Copywriters Account executives Vet pitches Needs? Criteria? grounded in readings!! • Brain-storm pitches • Aims? • Means? • grounded in readings!! Peitho Readings

  5. Discussion: What We Were Doing providing feedback critical perspective • brainstorming • employing persuasions • taking your audience into account Peitho Readings

  6. Recap and Update Phaedrus, peitho

  7. Peithō Problematics

  8. Phaedrus: Dialectic v. Rhetoric Dialectic Rhetoric Monological Static doxa-oriented ignorant many • Dialogical • Dynamic • Truth-oriented • wiser few Phaedrus 2

  9. Peitho / peithō Cult, Allegory, Myth

  10. Peithō: Word Notes • peithesthai • “obey/comply” • peithein • “persuade” • “Peitho” • female name • peithō • feminine noun Peitho Readings

  11. Peitho Readings

  12. 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

  13. Peitho, Pandora in Hesiod “… and the divine Graces and queenly Peitho put necklaces of gold upon her, ….” (Works and Days)

  14. 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)

  15. More Myth: Trojan War. . .

  16. Judgment of Paris Abduction of Helen Sack of Troy Returns Myth Summary Peitho Readings

  17. Aphrodite, Eros, Harmonia, bride, Peitho, Hebe, HimerosAthenian RF, ca. 420 BCE

  18. Seduction-Consolation of Helen, Neo-Attic relief, 2nd 1/4 1st cent. BCE. Naples.

  19. Alexandros (Paris) Peitho Eros Aphrodite Helen Seduction-Consolation of Helen, Neo-Attic relief, 2nd 1/4 1st cent. BCE. Naples.

  20. Peitho Menelaus Eros Aphrodite Helen Athenian RF vase, ca. 425 BCE

  21. “Makron Vase” – early 5th BCE, Athenian

  22. Eros Aphrodite Peitho Helen Alexandros(Paris) Aeneas

  23. Sappho’s “Hymn to Aphrodite”

  24. 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."

  25. Sexual-Political Peitho, Aphrodite

  26. 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.]

  27. Peitho Gender-Bender. . . • female deities as masculinized • persuasion heavily feminized • Pandora – persuasion as a beautiful evil Peitho Readings

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