23: Theseus and Attica Flashcards
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Theseus and attica
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- theseus is athens’ greatest hero
- athens was the most dominant polis (city state)
- Attica was the region where athens is situated
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conception of theseus
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- aegeus: avatar of poseidon. childless king of athens
- he consults delphic oracle: ‘do not open wine skin’
- goes to troezen in peloponnesus
- king pittheus of troezen gets aegeus drunk and has him sleep with daugther, aethra
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theseus coms of age
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- aethra’s dream: poseidon appears and sleeps with her and makes theseus–>Dual paternity
- aegeus’ orders was to raise child in secret
- sword and sandals under boulder: grown son to bring tokens to athens
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Theseus’ 6 Labours
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- Troezen to Athens
- 6 labours: ‘half pint heracles’, was used for athenian propaganda
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6 labors
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- epidaurus
- isthmus of corinth
- n. of isthmus of corint
- near megara
- eleusis
- between eleusis and athens
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1 and 2
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- Epidaurus kills periphetes so theseus clubs him to death
- isthmus of corint kills sinis so theseus ties him to 2 bent pines
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3 and 4
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- N. of Isthmus of Corinth, village of crommyon. Kills Crommyonian sow
- near megara, sciron who is a robber. Forces passers by to wash his feet and boots them over cliff, devoured by gigantic turtle
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5 and 6
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- At Eleusis, Cercyon, a former local hero who out wrestles wrestler
- between eleusis and athens. Procrustes (‘stretcher’) bed;hammer;saw made to fit. ‘Procrustean bed’: conformity through extremity
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Heroic Homecoming
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- sorceress Medea: Aegeus’ new wife
- Theseus a threat to Medea’s son: Medus
- Medea attempts to poison theseus. Ageus IDs sword and sandals and mEdea flees on dragon drawn chariot
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Bull of Marathon
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- bull formerly known as the cretan bull (heracels’ 7th labour)
- ravaging plain of mararthon: captures and brings to athens and sacrifices to apollo delphinius
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king minos revenge
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- son, androgeos, killed in attica
- minos invades attica
- 7 young men and 7 young women sacrificed annually to minotaur in labyrinth
- theseus volunteers
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theseus and ariadne
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- ariadne, daugther of minos and pasiphae who falls for theseus
- theseus uses tread of ariadne to escape labyrinth
- theseus slays minotaur and escaped with ariadne and athenian youth
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ariadne abandoned
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- pit stop on naxos, theseus leaves her behind
- dionysus rescues her. her crown catasterized as constellation corona
- becomes wife of bacchus
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king is dead
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- naxos to delos to athens: sails to be changed from black to white. Theseus forgetes
- Aegeus hurls himself into the Aegean sea
- Theseus: King of Athens/ Synoecism of Attica
