Section 4 Flashcards
Heroes who travel to the Underworld
Humans changed to animals by Gods
Girls who die before marriage, thus ‘marrying death’
Grieving mothers
Princesses who help a hero in his quest and are then abandoned
Monsters whose forms are composites of other things
Parents who kill their parents (whether intentionally or not)
People who commit suicide
Wives who kill or harm their husbands
Heroes who are trained by Chiron
Mortals who are blinded
Heroes who have issues with their feet (injuries or footwear)
Heroes who defeat a monster and are rewarded with a female
Figures (mortal and immortal) who succeeded more through their brains than brawn
Husbands who betray their wives
Mortals with divine parents
Heroes who are threatened with death as infants
Gods and humans for whom the consumption of food is an important event
Gods who mate with humans
Heroes who consult the Delphic oracle
Trickster figures (Human and divine)
Survivors of the Trojan War
Gifts that are dangerous or have unintended bad consequences
Mortals to whom immortality is offered (whether that offer is accepted or rejected)
Woman who use cloth or piece of clothing to deceive or harm a man or men
Gods who disguise themselves as humans
What is and examples of the pattern withdrawal-devastation return
Gods and humans who eat the wrong or forbidden type of food
Females who sleep with Odysseus
What a quest hero is (and examples thereof)
Patterns that are repeated in the Trojan War or Odyssey
Characters whose gender is changed