Classics 106 - Test 5 Flashcards
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Theseus
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- son of aethra & aegeus
- raised by mother and sent to father when he was strong/old enough
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Cecrops
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- half-man, half-serpant
- claimed by Athenians as basis of their origin
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Procne
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- wife of tereus
- sends for sister who gets raped by procne’s husband
- serves son to husband
- turned into nightingale after incident
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Philomena
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- sister of procne
- repeatedly raped & tongue cut out by Tereus after he fell in love with her
- turned to a swallow
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Tereus
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- husband of procne
- father of Itys
- served child as punishment for what he did to wife’s sister
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Itys
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- child of tereus & philomena
- served to father after he raped wife’s sister
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Aegeus
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- father of theseus
- king of athens
- dies when theseus comes home without changing the black sail
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Aethra
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- princess of troezen
- mother of theseus after affair with aegeus
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Hippolytus
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- youth who rejected advances of phaedra
- cursed by theseus and zeus after he “raped” her
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Phaedra
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- wife of theseus
- sister of ariadne
- falls for hippolytus who rejects her
- commits suicide after claiming he raped her
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Pirithous
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- son of Ixion
- king of lapiths
- tried to kidnap queen of the dead
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Erichthonius
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- early king of athens, succeeded cecrops
- born when athena being pursued by hephaestus wipes his seed of her leg on piece of wool and throws it to the ground
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Erechtheus
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-brother of procne & philomena
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Pandion
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- father of pronce, philomena, erechtheus
- suceeded erichthonius
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Minotaur
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- half-man, half-bull
- king minos required 7 athenian maidens/young men to be sacrificed to bull
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Ariadne
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- helped theseus slay minotaur
- since she shamed her family, she travels to athens with him
- theseus leaves her in sleep > saved & immortalized by Dionysus
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Thebes
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- Boetia “cow-land”
- cadmeians/cadmea
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Cadmus
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- went to search for sister after she is kidnapped by Zeus
- married daughter of ares & aphrodite (harmonia)
- children semele, ino, agave
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Antiope
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- zethus & aphion > children with zeus
- betrayed by sister dirce
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Dirce
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- aunt of zethus and amphion
- killed by bull set on her by nephews for betrayal
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Oedipus
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- destined to kill father Laius and marry/breed with mother Jocasta
- after he fulfills his destiny and realizes what he did, gauges his eyes out and wanders alone as poor man
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sphinx
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winged lion with woman’s head
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siren
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bird with human head, typically female
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Adrastus
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- king of argos
- dies with Polynices in seven against thebes
- rescued from death by winged horse Arion
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Jason
- father aeson, brother of pelias
- raised by centaur chiron when exiled by Pelias
- fathered a son with one lemnos woman
- sent to fetch golden fleece that "flew" to king aeetes in aea
- king did not want to part with it > sent jason on tasks
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Argo/Argonauts
- lemnos: populated by foul smelling women who killed their husbands
- rescue blind seer phineus from harpies
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Medea
- falls for jason, helps him get the fleece
- kills brother/dissects him
- has two sons with jason
- enraged when husband has to marry young princess
- kills her and the king through wedding gifts
- kills children and jason
- escapes to athens where she marries aegeus
- soon banished when she tries to kill theseus
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Meleager
- destined to live as long as a log
- father Oeneus/mother Althea
- killed his uncles
- killed
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Atalanta
- female warrior who was nearly impossible to beat
- in funeral games of Pelias, she wrestled achilles father
- races suitors to find her mate
- hippomenes wins
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Bellerophon
- hero from corinth
- had pegasus>winged horse born from severed head of medusa
- acidentally killed someone > purified by king of tiryns/argos
- queen claimed he raped her b/c he would not be her lover
- offered lycian princess as rewards from Iobates
- not satisfied, tried to fly to olympus but fell and died
- pegasus made it
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Proetus
- king of tiryns/argos
- purified bellerophon
- later exiled him to Iobates for "raping" his queen
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Iobates
- king of lycia
| - sent bellerophon on dangerous tasks
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chimera
lion with she-goat head on back and snake tail
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Procrustes
-man who altered people to fit his beds
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Pasiphae
- daughter of helius [sun-god]
- wife of minos
- mother of ariadne, phaedra, and androgeus
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Daedalus
-great craftsman imprisioned by minos to create labyrith for minotaur he 'helped' create
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Icarus
- took wings made by father to escape crete
| - flew too close to the sun and fell to his death
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Pelias
- evil king/uncle of Jason
| - killed by daughters who were tricked by Medea (sorceress linked to hera)
