Part IV Flashcards
orion
tries to rape art gets turned into constalation
Brauron
ritual for girls 5-10, dress as bears and play games
Atalanta
was stupid fast so if she won against suitors the suitors had to die. One suitor there down golden apples and she stopped to pick them up
Hippolytus
hippo don’r want no love interest. phaedra loved him so lied and said she was raped by hippo, so Thesesus sends poseidon curse down on his son and dead
katabasis
decent down
Realm of hades, tropes 4
●Charon (ferryman)
●Minos (judge of souls)
●Cerberus (3 -headed dog)
●Furies (Erinyes) vengeful beings
5 underworld rivers
●Acheron – river of pain
●Cocytus – river of wailing river of wailing
●Lethe – river of forgetfulness river of forgetfulness
●Phlegethon Phlegethon – river of fire
●Styx – river of hate (best known)
myth of Er
Plato: Er dies goes to under, theres 4 beams of light. two up where you say for 1000 years or two down, then draw lots for your next life and are reborn
Virgils book of the dead
Agnes get golden bog for harry man, the unproperly buried wait on the banks, then roads diverged
heaven
elysium/ elysian fields
mythos sinners 5
Tityus (vultures eat liver), ixion (spun in wheel), danaids (try to carry water), sisyphus (tries to roll boulder), tantalus (can’t reach food)
Diony
Zeus and semele, god of vegetation ecstatic behaviour, cup/vines, leopard tiger, thyrsus pine cone staff, long exotic hair
Diony birth
semele asks to see zeus in full form, gets set on fire so zeus takes out doily and raises his in his tight till birth
dion and pirates
escapes because no one can bind him
Pentheus
leader of thebes don’t like dino, dresses as a women spy, women think he’s a lion so catch him and tear him up and Agava takes the head down (she’s pens mom)
