Legendary Women Flashcards
Pandora context (3)
- Greece
- Written by Hesiod
- First woman
Pandoras gifts (4)
- aphrodite :charm
- Hephaestus: goddess looks
- Athena:handy craft
- Hermes: cunning
What is the only thing left in the pithos after Pandora let all the evils escape?
Hope
Who was Pandora taken in by?
Epimetheus
Hellen in Iliad (5)
- Greek
- Written by Homer
- She is admired by her beauty “like an immortal goddess”
- She is unwanted in troy because her beauty is problematic
- She regrets leaving her family
Helens actual husband (2)
Meneleaus
King of Sparta
Helen left for
Paris
Who Is Priam
Helens father in law
Helen in Euripides
- Written by Euripedes
- She is presented as someone who had no control over her whole life
- She blames herself for the trojan war
- She fled to Egypt
- She is struggling to protect her virginity from the king of Egypt, Proteus
Sabine women
- Rome
- Written by Livy
- Romulus ordered the Sabine women to be kidnapped
- They were fickle and soon fell for their new husbands
How did the Sabine women stop the battle between the Romans and the Sabines?
They moved the arguing men so much by risking there lives to tell them to stop fighting
Tarpeia (3)
- Written by Livy
- Rome
- Daughter of general Spurius Tarpeius
Tarpeia story
Tarpeia said she would let the Sabines into Rome if they gave her their jewelry but instead they crushed her to death with their shields
Alternate Tarpeia
Asked for their shields instead of jewellery
Lucretia context (3)
- Rome
- Written by Livy
- Upper-class woman
Lucretia respect
- She died by a dagger which was the manly way to die instead of poison which was more common for women
What was the name of Lucretia husband?
Collantinus
Who was Hellen the daughter of
Zeus and Leda
What was Helen renowned for (2)
- beauty
- Demi-god
What did Tyndareus do?
Evoked the oath all of Helen’s suitors took
Who was Romulus
The first king of Rome
Who was the Sabine king
Titus
Who was sextus Tarquinius superbus
Raped Lucretia
Prince of Rome
Lucretia story (4)
- most virtuous
- got raped
- asked for justice
- killed herself
What did the poet Ovid say about Lucretia
She was a matrona with manly values
