Greece Flashcards
Argo
Argonaut’s boat
Orpheus
On the Argos, musician; married to Eurydice who he sought in the underworld but lost because he turned around to look
Who was on the Argos?
Caster and Pollux, Orpheus, Hercules, Jason, Hylas
Gegenees
6-armed monster occupied the same island as the Doliones
Doliones
King Cyzicus; offered hospitality to the Argonauts who later mistakenly massacred them
Cyzicus
King who Jason killed on accident
Hylas
Argonaut; kissed a nymph who dragged him under
Aeëtes
King of Colchis with Golden Fleece; Medea’s father
Absyrtus
Jason or Medea killed him; Medea quartered him and sent the pieces in opposite directions to distract her father from her escape
Melos
an island 100 miles from the Pireus; Athens killed all the men and enslaved the women and children because the island wouldn’t join in a military alliance against Sparta to whom many of the people on Melos were related