Universal Hero

Question 1

Ovid Metamorphoses events

Answer 1

Roman
- Achelous wrestles Hercules (Talking to Theseus, fought over Deanira, snake, bull, tore)
- Nessus (offers to carry Deanira over river, shot w poison, gave her blood shirt, gave to Lichas, H)
- Agony then Death ( Thinks its Juno, rip, listing acts, flames, goes to gods)

Question 2

Virgil Aeneid events

Answer 2

Roman- Pallentium after Geryon
- Evander speaking to Aeneas (Trojan, founder of Roman Race) about A’s father Anchises and worshipping Hercules
- Cacus was terrorising Arcadia
-Cacus took Hercules’ cows
-H tore off top of cave, strangles C

Question 3

Metamorphoses- why H is better x3, think gods

Answer 3

‘Jove as his brides father in law’
‘famous labours’
‘Juno prescribed’

Question 4

Metamorphoses- why A is better

Answer 4

‘god vs mortal’
‘‘native’
juno ‘passes me by!’
accuses of father not immortal or mother adulterer

Question 5

Achelous fighting H

Answer 5

‘two strong bulls’ ‘sleekest heifer’
‘gripped by a vice’
‘ mutilated brow’

Question 6

Nessus H

Answer 6

‘pale with fear’
‘did not hesitate… calmest’
‘predator’
‘return or stay?’ repeated

Question 7

Agony and death H

Answer 7

’ repressed his groans’
‘hisses and boils’
repetitive questions 12 lab
‘among the shining stars’

Question 8

Aeneid Heracles quotes x4

Answer 8

‘pallid with sad decay’
‘half-human’
‘venomous dark rage’
‘gnashing’