18: Mycenaean Saga Flashcards
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story of tantalus and pelops
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- tantalus tested the gods by killing and cooking up own son named Pelops in Pindar’s Olympian Ode. His eternal punishment was to be hungry and thirsty
- Pelops is restored to life. Shouler was eaten by Demeter and replcaed with Ivory shoilder
- Variant: in PIndars Olympian Ode 1: Poseidon abducts Pelops and is brought ot Olympus
2
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story of Oneomaus and daughter
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- Oneomaus: King of Pisa, near olympia in Peloponnesus
- His daugther is Hippodamia
- his prophecy is that he gets murdered by son in low
- has chariot race for lovers vs him, if challenger wins they get daughter if they lose they die
- Pelops has a secret weapon: golden chariot and winged steeds, a gift from Poseidon and wins
3
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variant of pelops story
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- Pelops bribes Myrtilus, Oenomaus’ charioteer and removes linchpin in Oenomaus’ chariot
- Myrtilus demands sex with Hippodamia
- Pelops kills Myrtilus and Myrtilus curses Pelops and all of his descendants
4
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Whos pelops and where is his site
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- Pelops: eponymous hero of Peloponnesus, southern part of Greek mainland
- has as cult site at Olympia: Pelopion. Sacrifices to Zeus and Pelops and Shrine to Pelops
5
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Pelops and olympic games
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- temple of Zeus at Olympia: east pediment has pelops vs Oenomaus
- in honor of pelops victory he institutes the olympic games or to purify himself from Miasma: ‘blood pollution’
6
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who are the children of pelops and with who and their quarrel
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- pelops + hippodamia
- has children: atreus and Thyestes and quarrel over kingdom of mycenae
- the oracle: to a son of pelops
- atreus claims right as elder brother but thyestes demands divine sign from him: golden fleeced ram
- thyestes has affair with atreus’ wife, Aerope. who gives him the golden fleeced ram
- atreus is banished
7
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revengre of atreus
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- Atreus invites Thyestes for a banquet saying he wants to reconcile
- the mian course is Thyestes’ own sons
- Thyestes curses Atreus and descandants and he goes into exile
8
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thyestes + pelopia
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- Thyestes beds own daughter, Pelopia, obeying an oracle
- they have a son named Aegisthus who continues vendetta
9
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Important Atreids
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- Sons of Atreus
- Agamemnon: King of mycenae
- menelaus: king of sparta
10
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family of agamemnon
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- agamemnon: king of mycenae
- clytemnestra: queen of mycenae
- Their chidren: orestes, electra, iphigenia, chrysothemis
11
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who was sacrificed
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iphigenia
12
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Sacrifice of Iphigenia and form what book and variant
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- Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis
- to launch greek armada must sacrifice Iphigenia to gain favourable winds and to appease Artemis
- Variant: Iphigenia rescued and taken to Tauris –> in book Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris
13
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Aegisthus + Clytemnestra
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- Clytemnestra and Aegisthus: she takes him as a lover while Agamemnon was away at troy for 10 years
14
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Aeschylus’ trilogy
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- called the Oresteia trilogu
- Agamemnon, LIbation Bearers (Choephori), Eumenides
15
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1st play of triology
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1st play: Agamemnon
* clytemnestra and aegisthus murder Agamemnon
* cassadnra foresees his doom and her own–> Cassandra as the concubine of agamemnon
