μῦθοι Mythoi
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The relative pleasures of love. Do men or women have the greater pleasure in sexual intercourse? Man who has been transformed to woman answers that women have the greater pleasure. The goddess blinds him as punishment.

Sex. · Love. · Love. · view the constellation · filed as T2

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Zeus gives man modesty, but it leaves when love enters Omens in love affairs Person wants to learn art of love Love as inducement to idolatry Sexual desire as original sin
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Bird language learned by having ears magically cleansed Helpful horse Animals save person's life. (Cf. B540.) Tabu: revealing secrets of god Tabu: man looking at nude goddess Transformation: man to woman Man looks at copulating snakes: transformed to woman. (Cf. D12.) Sphinx propounds riddle on pain of death Riddle of the Sphinx: what is it that goes on four legs in the morning, on two at midday, and on three in the evening. (Man, who crawls as a child, walks in middle life, and walks with a stick in old age.) Zeus smites Capaneus while he is climbing a ladder Punishment for splitting head and eating man's brains Punishment: banishment (exile)

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