Book 4 Flashcards
Which women in Thebes did not worship Bacchus after the death of Pentheus?
The daughters of Minyas were worshipers of Minerva: Alcithoe, Leuconoe, Arsippe
Who were Bacchus’ parents?
Semele and Jupiter
Who is Liber?
Another name for Bacchus
What tale did Alcithoe tell?
The tale of Pyramus and Thisbe
How did the forbidden lovers Pyramus and Thisbe communicate?
Through a crack in their neighboring wall.
Why did Pyramus kill himself?
Because he thought Thisbe had been eaten by a lion.
What was transformed by the blood of Pyramus?
The fruit of the mulberry tree changed from white to dark red, to mourn the death of Pyramus and Thisbe.
What tale did Leuconoe tell?
Loves of the Sun God
What did Vulcan do when Apollo told him about his wife Venus having an affair with Mars?
Vulcan built a trap that exposed them during lovemaking.
What is the tone of Leuconoes tale?
Comical
How did Venus take revenge on the Sun for informing?
He caused him to fall madly in love with Leucathoe?
How did the Sun trick Leucothoe to rape her?
He pretended to be her mother Eurynome.
What did Leucothoe’s father do when he was informed by jealous Clytie that she was raped?
He buried her alive
What did the Sun do when Leucothoe was buried?
He tried to save her and when he couldn’t he turned her into a frankincense shrub so her fragrance would last forever
What happened to the Sun’s jealous lover Clytie?
She died refusing nourishment and became a heliotrope flower whose face always follows the sun
What is special about the fountain of Salmacis?
It affects the masculinity of men who bathe in it
Who are the parents of the boy Hermaphroditus?
Venus and Mercury
What did the nymph Salmacis do to Hermaphroditus?
She tried to rape him in her pool
What did Salmacis do when Hermaphroditus resisted him?
She asked the gods to keep them together as one, and they were fused together as both male and female.
What did Hermaphroditus ask Venus and Mercury to do after he and Salmacis were transformed to one in her pool?
Enchant the pool to neuter men that enter it
How did Bacchus respond to being scorned by the daughters of Minyas?
He transformed them into bats
How was Ino connected to Bacchus?
She was his aunt and foster mother.
Who is King of Hades (the Underworld)?
Pluto, aka Dis: brother to Jupiter and Neptune, son of Saturn
Who did Ino marry?
Athamas, king of Orcomeneus
Who was brother to Athamas?
Sisyphus, cursed to forever roll a boulder uphill
What revenge did Juno take on Ino for raising Bacchus and being too happy?
She sent the Fury Tisiphone to drive Ino and her husband mad
What effect did Tisophones poison have on Athamas?
He went mad and killed his own son and thought Ino was a lioness
What did Ino do when Athamas chased her?
She jumped off a cliff into the Ocean
Who intervened to save Ino and her child from the Ocean and how
Her grandmother Venus asked Neptune to turn them into sea gods.
What did Juno do to Ino’s grieving friends?
Turned them to sea rocks and sea gulls
What did Cadmus and Harmonia do in their grief?
They abandoned Thebes and were turned into intertwined serpents
Who were the parents of Perseus?
Jupiter and Danae—born of rape
What caused the infestation of poisonous serpents in the Libyan desert?
Perseus flew over the desert dripping blood from the Gorgons head
Why did Perseus use Medusas head to turn the giant Atlas into a mountain of stone.
Because he refused him food and shelter.
Who was Aeolus?
God of the tempests
How was Perseus able to fly?
Mercury loaned him his winged sandwls
Who did Perseus save from a sea monster?
Andromeda who had been chained to a rock as a sacrifice.
Who caused Andromeda to be sacrificed?
Her mother Cassiopeia, by boasting of her beauty
What did Perseus receive for saving Andromeda
Her hand in marriage
How did Perseus get the head of the Gorgon?
He found Medusa asleep and cut off her head.
Why did Medusas hair turn to snakes that turned others to stone.
Minerva was angry that Jupiter raped Medusa within her sacred shrine
What was born from
Medusa’s blood?
The winged horses Pegasus and Chrysaor
Who wears Medusas snake on her bosom?
The goddess Minerva
Who are the Graiae?
Sisters who only shared a single eye, which was stolen by Perseus to force them to give directions for him to locate Medusa
Why is it ironic when a prince refers to Perseus skill and courage in gaining the Gorgons head
Because he got it by stealing and chopping the head off a sleeping wiman
