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1
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Where Helius pastures herds
Circe had warned Odysseus
 Do Not Touch Cattle
 Odysseus’ crew disobeys
 Trapped on island without food
 Slaughter a few head
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Island of Thrinacia

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King & Queen of Phaeacians

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Alcinoüs & Arete

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s sent on journey
§ To Pylos:
§ King Nestor
§ To Sparta:
§ King Menelaus
§ Odysseus:
§ Dead or Alive?
§ Odysseus still lives!

who?

A

Telemachus

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Atthena disguises as beggar

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Odysseus

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Reveals himself to Eumaeus & Telemachus
§ Keeps identity secret from Penelope
§ Meets with her as beggar
§ Gives her hope

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Odysseus

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Archery contest for Suitors
§ String Odysseus’ bow
§ Shoot arrow through row of 12 axe heads
§ Penelope had revealed plan to ‘Beggar’

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Penelopes Plan

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§ No Suitor can even string bow
§ ‘Beggar’ does so easily

Who?

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Odyseus

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§ Forced to clean blood-soaked hall
§ Then hanged for disloyalty
§ Had slept with Suitors
§ Had insulted ‘Beggar’ Odysseus

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12 sservant girls

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how does Penelope Tests Odysseus?

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Asks Euryclea to move marriage-bed
§ Built by Odysseus out of live olive-tree
§ Cannot be moved
§ Odysseus of course knows this!
§ Penelope now sure of his identity
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roman name of odysseus

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Ulysses

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King of Argos; father of Danaë

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Acrisius

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Danaë’s child will kill Acrisius

Acrisius’ Solution:?

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imprison danae

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How is Perseus born?

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Zeus enters chamber and pregnates danae after falling for her

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Where and by who are danae and perseus rescued after sent adrift? And who is king of that issland?

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Island of Seriphos

Dictys

Polydectes

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All Must Give King a Horse, what does Perseus give?

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Head of Gorgon

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Graeae means what? what did they share between them and what do they reveal to perseus?

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Grey ones, 1 Eye & 1 Tooth Between them

whereabouts of the three nymphs

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3 Nymphs give Perseus:

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Cap of Invisibility
§ Winged Sandals
§ Leather Pouch

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2 immortal gorgons 1 mortal who was the mortal one? what was her speccial ability? who kills her?

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Medusa, can turn to stone, perseus

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from Decapitated Body of Pregnant Medusa:

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Chrysaor: ‘He of the Golden Sword’
Pegasus: Winged Horse

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who was Andromeda? what was her mothers boast and the following punishment?

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Daughter of:
King Cepheus & Queen Cassiopea

More beautiful than Nereids

Poseidon floods Kingdom
Sends Sea-monster

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Andromedas betrothed and child of union

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Phineus and perses

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How does Perseus Rescues Danaë

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Turns Polydectes to Stone

§ Makes Dictys Ruler of Seriphos

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what did perseus Returned to Gods

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Sandals, kibisis, Cap: to Hermes

Gorgon Head: to Athena

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How does Acrisius die

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Errant discus kills Acrisius

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Sent to Lycia with Sealed Letter
‘Kill Bearer of Letter’

Sthenboea falls for him but is rejectted who?

A

Bellerophon

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what was bellerophon queest? name and what did creature contain?

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Kill Chimera
Hybrid Creature:
Lion-Head
Serpent-Tail
Goat-midriff
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How does bellarophon fall?

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Attempts Ascent to Mt Olympus
 On back of Pegasus
Zeus Annoyed at Hubris
Sends Gadfly
Pegasus Bucks 
Bellerophon Falls
 Bellerophon Survives
Crippled
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28
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What does “glory of hera” mean in greek?

A

Heracles

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29
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What is boeotia and trachis?

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Birth and some adventuress

Final adventures and death

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30
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Geographical assosiactions of Heracles?

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Mycenae, Tiryns

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31
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what does hercules wear and what weapon does he use?

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Wields Club & wears Lion-Skin

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How was hercules concieved?

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Zeus lusts after alcmena (granddaughter of perseus) and disguises himself as her husband AMPHITRYON and sleeps w her and she has 2 kids, Hercules (son of zeus) and iphicles (son of amphitryon)

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33
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what did zeus boat to hera about heracles? and what does hera do in ressponse?

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My Descendant born that day
§ To rule over all

Hera delays Heracles’ birth
Hastens Eurystheus’ birth

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34
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What doess heracles do for eurystheus?

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Performs Labours for Eurystheus

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35
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how was the milky way created? and what does hera do in retaliation?

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from heraccles ssuckling on heras breasts too hard, hera releases serpents and hercules throttles them in crib

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Why was heracles troubled?

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Kills music teacher, Linus, with lyre

50 Daughters of Thespius
Sleeps with 1 each night
Variant: all 50 on 1 night!

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37
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Who was heracles firstt wife, how many kids and what did hera maake him do?

A

Megara, daughter of Creon, King of Thebes
1st wife with whom he has 3 kids

Heracles Maddened Hera drives him mad and he murders entire family

38
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why does heracles perform his labours? how many and where does he go for them and what does he gain if completed?

A

§ In expiation for killing family

12 Labours for Eurystheus

Tiryns

immortality

39
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What are the 12 labours called in greek?

A

12 Athloi

40
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where do the first 6 labours take place?

A

Peloponnesus

41
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What is the first labour of hercules and how does he complete it?

A

Nemea (N.W. of Mycenae)

Kill lion; bring back skin

Kills with club

42
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Second task of hercules? what and how?

A

Lernaean Hydra For every head cut off, 2 more grow

Cauterizes stump § Buries immortal head beneath boulder

43
Q

3rd labour and how and where?

A

Cerynean Hind

Hind (= Deer) sacred to Artemis

Tracks it for 1 Year
§ Must not harm it

44
Q

4th labour?

A

Erymanthian Boar

Trapped with nets

45
Q

side deed of labours?

A

called : Parergon

§ Pholus the Centaur

Entertains Heracles with wine

Other centaurs attack; killed by Heracles,
Chiron, wise centaur, wounded in melee , Exchanges immortality with Prometheus

46
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5th labour

A

Augean Stables

Augeas, King of Elis (N.W. Peloponnesus)
Owned vast herd of cattle
Had never cleaned stables!

‘A River Runs Through It’

Heracles cleans them by diverting 2 rivers

47
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6th labour

A

Stymphalian Birds

Flock of birds
Heracles flushes them out
With castanets given him by Athena
Shoots them all

48
Q

what are the last 3 labours of heracles conneccted with?

A

Conquest of Death

49
Q

7th labour?

A

Cretan Bull
§ Bull Rampaging throughout Crete
§ Overpowers Bull
§ Rides it back to mainland

50
Q

8tth labour?

A

Mares of Diomedes
Diomedes, King of Thrace Son of Ares
Mares feed on … human flesh!!
Heracles feeds them their master

51
Q

another paragon connected to 8th labor?

A

Alcestis

Heracles entertained by Admetus
Wife, Alcestis, recently deceased
Heracles wrestles Thanatos ‘Death’
Brings Alcestis back from dead

52
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9th labor

A 
Girdle of Hippolyta
Hippolyta: Queen of Amazons
Hippolyta offers Heracles Girdle
Sign of sexual submission
Hera intervenes
Disguised as an Amazon
Announces Heracles’s Abduction of Hippolyta
Amazons attack Heracles & companions
Heracles strangles Hippolyta
53
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10th labour

A

. Cattle of Geryon

3-Bodied Monster

Heracles kills them all

54
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where does Cattle of Geryon live

A

Island of Erythia

55
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11th labour

A

Apples of Hesperides

‘Daughters of Evening’

Guard Tree bearing Golden Apples

56
Q

who does heracles have to fight to find the 3 daughters

A

wrestle with Nereus

57
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12th labour

A 
3-Headed Hell-Hound
Most difficult of all Labours
Most clearly Conquest of Death
Meets Theseus & Pirithoüs
Brings Cerberus to Eurystheus
58
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who does herculess rescue from cerberus fight

A

Rescues only Theseus and not pirithous

59
Q

who does herccules marry second?

A

Deïanera

60
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why does shercules fight centaur nessus and what does he do with his dying breath

A 
§ Nessus Helps Deïanera across river
§ Attempts to rape her midstream
Convinces Deïanera Blood is Love Potion
§ To prevent Heracles from loving Another
§ Blood later causes Heracles’ death
61
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why was heracles sosld into slavery and drag dressed

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heracles loved iole but eurytus said no so heracles kill ioles brother and wresltes apollo and is sold into slavaery by zeush for 1 year and is bought by omphale queen of lydaians and they become lovers and change clothes

62
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how does hercules die

A

deianera learns of hercules love for iole and dips robe in poisoned blood of nesssus cuz thinks its love potion and hearcles is burned and cannot remove robe and dies. funeral pyre is on mt oeta and deianera commits suicide

63
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how is heracles deified

A

mortal flesh is burned away and immortal spirit ascends to olympus. he is reconciled with hera and marries hebe (youth)

64
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what is the choice of heracles in choice between pleasure and duty

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§ Heracles chooses Duty

§ Paradigm of Roman Stoic

65
Q

what are the 3 athenian boasts?

A
  1. Autochthonous
    § “[Born from] Earth Itself”
    § Snake as Symbol
  2. Descended from Cecrops
    § Mortal King
    § Athens, a.k.a. Cecropia
  3. Descended from Athena
    § City of Athens
66
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what did cecrops introduce?

A 
Arts of Civilization
§ City-Building
§ Burial
§ Monogamy
§ Abandoned Human Sacrifice
67
Q

what does hephaestus try to do to athena?

A

Tries raping sis!
§ Semen falls upon Earth
§ Up springs Erichthonius!

68
Q

what does erichthonius mean?

A

“Very Earthy”

69
Q

who was erichthonius and who did athena give him to?

A

King of Athens raised by athena

given to Daughters of Cecrops and athena warns to not look inside, they disobey and see snake shaped child, go insane then kill themselves by jumping off acropolis

70
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who was athens greatest hero?

A

Theseus

71
Q

most dominant polis?

A

Athens

72
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region where athens is situated?

A

Atticca

73
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Who was aegeus and what happens to him at troezen?

A

he was Avatar of Poseidon and Childless king of Athens

king pittheus of troezen gets him drunk and has him sleep with his daughter aethra

74
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what is aethras dream?

A

Sacrifice at nearby island and poseidon sleeps w her and there is dual paternity like in the case of heracles concetpion

75
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How was theseus similar to heracles?

A

had to do 6 labours

76
Q

first 2 labours of theseus?

A
  1. Epidaurus
    § Kills Periphetes
  2. Isthmus of Corinth
    § Kills Sinis
77
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3rd and 4th labours of theseus?

A
  1. N. of Isthmus of Corinth
    § Village of Crommyon
    § Kills Monstrous Sow
  2. Near Megara
    § Sciron
    § Forces passers-by to wash his feet
    § Boots them over cliff; devoured by gigantic turtle!
78
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5tth and 6th labours of theseus?

A
  1. Eleusis
    § Cercyon
    § Former Local Hero
    § Out-Wrestles Wrestler
  2. Between Eleusis & Athens
    § Procrustes (“Stretcher”)
    § “Procrustean Bed”: conformity through extremity
79
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what happens upon theseus homeccoming?

A

aegeus new wife medea tries to poison theseus beccause he is a threat to medeas son medus. recognition by aegeus and medea has to flee on dragon drawn chariot

80
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what was the bull of maratthon?

A

bull formerly known as cretan bull ravages plain of mararthon so theseus cacptures and brings to athen and sacrifices to apollo delphinus.

81
Q

how did king minos get his revent and what was the treaty?

A

minos invades attica cuz son androgeos was killed in attica and 7 young men and women are sacrificed tyo minotaur.

82
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how did thesues stop minos and why?

A

He stoped him from raping woman but minos calls zeus to drop lightning from sky and minos challengess theseus and tosses ring into sea to test thesus divin paternity.

83
Q

who falls for theseus and is a daughter of minos? and how does theseus use her?

A

Ariadne and theseus uses her to escape labrinth

84
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who does theseus slay aftter escaping labyrinth?

A

minotaur

85
Q

how and why does theseus become king of athens?

A

aegeus hurls himself into sea whicch becomes aegean sea and thesseus becomes king of athens and makes it capital

86
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why do amazons invade athens?

A

because of heraccles 9th labour theseus share is antiope and they have child hippolyta so amazons invade and athenians win

87
Q

who was pirithous and why was he important to theseus?

A

he was king of lapiths and they helped each other find wives (daughters of zeus) helen and persephone

88
Q

Why does heracles have to rescue theseus?

A

theseus and pirithous have to katabasis to kidnap persephone and are trapped so heracles rescues Theseus but pirithous
hubris too great

89
Q

who was daedalus and perdix?

A

daedalus was skilled craftasman and inventor of athenian royalty

perdix was assistant to daedalus who invents saw. daedalus kills him cuz he was jelaous of perdix and is exiled to crete because of this.

90
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what does daedalus build and who is trapped in it?

A

labyrinth and it is a cage for the minotaur

91
Q

what does daedalus fasion and what does it lead to?

A

fasions wings of feathers and wax and his son icarus tries to use them, neither too high nor too low is warned but warning is unheeded and he falls to his death

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