patriarchal society's denial of woman's right to excercise her sexuality?

[thesuperalice]

The note I scribbled on the handout displaying the family tree of the Deities of the Sea for my classical mythology class can be read as a poem when taken out of context

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[snuff_daddy]

if i remember correctly (and i very may well not), there are two versions of that story. one is that he killed one of her stags, so she kills him. the other is that he spies on her nekkid and/or tries to rape her, so she kills him. gotta love Artemis, the virgin patron of motherhood.

[thesuperalice]

Yeah, there are actually a lot of versions--so many that I'm having trouble deciding how much to go into which ones, when they were popular, etc. There's even one account where Zeus has Artemis kill him because he's trying to woo Semele and is thus getting in the way of the conception of Dionyseus. (Of course, there being another man never really stopped Zeus before.)