Places to Know Flashcards
Stoa Poekile
A building on which the Amazonamachy was painted on (amongst others). The Amazons were dressed as Persians
Return to Argos
Perseus
Skyros
Where Theseus died, and where Odysseus exposed Achilles. Also where Neoptolemus (son of Achilles) was living before joining the Trojan war.
Thespius
Fifty daughters that Herakles has sex with
Aeaea
The island of Circe
King of Athens
Aegeus
Ithica
Where Odysseus is from
Ogygia
Where Odysseus is detained by Callypso
Crete
The location of the Minotaur; Theseus travels here
This is also where Rheia hid Zeus as a baby, and where Zeus was raised (in a cave)
Attica
The area around Athens. Theseus was said to have organized it (local Athenian hero).
King of Argos
Acrisius
King of Uruk
Gilgamesh
King of Troezen
Pittheus
Areopagus
Meaning the “hill of Ares”. The location of the Amazonamachy instigated by Theseus by taking Hippolyta.
Also the location of the first trial by jury for homicide with Orestes
Naxos
The island that Theseus leaves Ariadne on. Liminal space of Ariadne.
Aulis
Where the Greeks gather before heading to Troy
Corinth
Jason and Medea have two sons here
Polybus and Merope adopted Oedipus here
Pylos
Where Athena sends Telemachus to go to ask Nestor about Odysseus
Thrinakia
Island with Helios’ sheep
Seriphos
Perseus
Laestrygonian shore
Where most of Odysseus’ men were killed by giants
Ethiopia
Cassiopeia and Cepheus (Andromeda’s parents)
King of Tiryns and Mycenae
Perseus
Mt. Ida
Where Paris was raised after Hecuba’s prophecy.
Athens to Troezen
The road that Theseus made safer
Iolcus, Thessaly
Home of Jason (as well as Aeolus, Aeson, and Pelias)
Colchis
Where the Golden Fleece lies; it is up to Jason to retrieve it
The royal family includes the descendants of Helios
Scheria
Island of Nausicaa and the Phaeacians
Aegean Sea
Location of King Aegeus’ suicide
Sparta
Helen from Sparta. Theseus attempts to marry her (Pirithous attempts to marry Persephone) and they become trapped in the underworld.
Thebes
Cadmus and the autochthonous family
Labdacus’ family and Oedipus’ true family
Phthia, Thessaly
Peleus
Statue of Pallas Athena
Troy
Lemnos
The place where Philoktetes was left alone for over 10 years due to a snake bite.
The island was volcanic, and sacred to Hephaestus. Hephaestus has a cult site on it.
Where do Menelaus and Helen end up living together?
In Sparta
Myecenaean cities? (heroes x2)
Menelaus and Nestor
Mt. Helikon
Home of the 9 muses
Mekone
Prometheus acting as sacrificial priest in Theogony and Works and Days (Hesiod).
This is where the first sacrificial feast occurred.
Epidauros
Where Athenian tragedies, such as Prometheus Bound were held - great acoustics in open air
Where was Leda the queen of?
Sparta
Thrace
Sacred island of Hephaestus - where he pretends to flee to when he sets the trap for Aphrodite and Ares
Delos
A floating island. Delos agrees to let Leto give birth on their island as long as a temple is built for Apollo there.
She gives birth clinging to a palm tree.
The name Delos means “bright” or “shining”.
Letoon
The Temple built in honour of Apollo at Delos
Pytho
Delphi
Telphusa
A river that denied Apollo, and did not allow him to build his temple there
Acropolis
The hill that the Parthenon is on in Athens
Sacred temple for Hephaestus?
Hephaesteion, Athens
Mt. Nysa
Where Dionysus was raised, by nymphs, as a goat
Phyrgia
Where Cybele, the mother-goddess was from (see Dionysus)
Styx, Acheron
Rivers that the dead must cross before reaching the underworld.
Charon is the ferryman
Elysium
A paradise, full of light and music, opposite to Tartarus
Tartarus
The “cellar of Hades”, where the worst sinners go
Thebes, Corinth, Delphi
Oedipus
Colonus
Sacred to the Furies
The place of death of Oedipus, as predicted by the oracle at Delphi
Thracia
The home of Tereus, who takes Procne, an Athenian princess as his wife.
Thracia is not in Greece, it is considered foreign
Avernus
Orpheus cannot look back at Eurydice until he has passed Avernus
Lesbos
An island associated with love. The river Hebrus takes Orpheus’ head and lyre here. This is where Sappho is from.
Phaeacia
Where Cadmus is from (not Greek) before he establishes Thebes, after slaying a dragon and sowing the teeth
River Lethe
Where Anchises was found in the Isles of the Blessed
Gate of Ivory
Also known as the gate of false dreams: where Aeneas exits out of the underworld from
Latium
Where Rome is now (Amata, Latinus and Lavinia)
Arcadia
Evander - a king allied with Aeneas
Sacred to the Furies
Colonus, where Oedipus will die
