Exam#4 Flashcards
Iolcus
Located at the foot of Mount Pelion
Bronze Age city
Modern name is Volos
Thessaly
Widest plain in Greece
Northernmost mainland
Apollonius of Rhodes
Writer whose account of the voyage that is usually followed.
Literary version is called Argonautica
Jason
Descendant of Aeolus
King of Magnesia
Colchis
A distant town that the ram flew over
Where Aeetes ruled
Pelias
Grew up to be arrogant and intolerant
Wanted to be the supreme power over Thessaly instead of his brother, Neleus
Chiron
Wise centaur
Named the son of Aeson, Jason
Taught him civilized life
Symplegades
“Clashing rocks”
Argonauts were warned about these dangers waters
Let a dove pass through first
Medea
Kings daughter
Agent of hera’s plan to destroy pelias
Talus
Bronze giant who threw boulders at the argonauts
Zeus formerly gave to Europa after he abducted her in the form of a bull
Aetolia
North of the entrance of Corinth
Calydon
Capital of Aetolia
King was Oeneus
Meleager
King Oeneus and Althaea bore this child
When the log is consumed he will die … Three fates appeared 7 days after he was born and told him so… Also that he would be handsome and brave
Atlanta
Famous female athlete
From Arcadia
Joined the boar hunt
Argo
Name of the boat that the argonauts sailed on
Thyestes
Father of Aegisthus
One of Pelops’ sons
Atreus
Father of Menelaus and Agamemnon
One of the sons of Pelops
Leda
Who tyndareus married
Beautiful
Zeus appeared to her as a swan. Had sex with him and her husband that same night and bore four kids
Helen
Fathered by Zeus and Leda
Semi divine
Clytemnestra
Birthed by Leda and Tyndareus
Mortal
Tyndareus
King of Sparta
Sympathetic to the causes of thyestes and helped him created an army
Married Leda
Oath of Tyndareus
Created by Odysseus
Was finding suitors to marry a Helen
He was too poor… Odysseus had a solution… This was the solution
Peleus
Was born on the island of Aegina
Father = Aeacus
Ajax
Father was Telamon (Peleus’ brother)
Suitor of Helen and one the the greatest heroes of the Trojan War