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Week 11 Flashcards

1
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saga or legend

A

focuses on one or more heroes

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2
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propp

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reocurring motifs

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3
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argos

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ecompasses the argolid area, corinth, thebes, contact with mediterranean and egypt

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4
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heraeum

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hill where hera’s sanctuary stood, religious center of the area.

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5
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hera and poseidon contest

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phoroneus established argos, decided hera over poseidon. Poseidon dried up argive rivers including phoroneus father, inachus

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6
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great grandfather of perseus and his sons

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abas, acrisius (king of argos) and proteus (tiryns)

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7
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perseus birth

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acrisius daughter danae, oracle said her son would kill acrisius. She was shut up in a brozen chamber but zeus came to her in a shower of gold. Perseus was hidden until he was 4, acrisius put them in a chest to float out to sea

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8
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perseus and danae rescued by

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fisherman dictys (net), on island of seriphos

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9
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polydectes

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brother of dictys, king of seriphos, in love with danae

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10
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persesus at the banquet

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polydectes has a banquet, where everyman has to give him a horse (attempt to get perseus to give him danae), perseus boasts he could give him a gorgon head

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11
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athena’s assistance

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perseus’s guide, tells him where graeae

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12
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perseus and the graeae

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perseus gets their eye and tooth, gives back when they tell him where to find the nymphs, they give him cap of invisbility, winged sandals, and kibisis (wallet)

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13
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hermes’s assistance

A

gives a scimitar

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perseus and medusa

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gorgons were asleep, guided by athena, looks only at gorgon reflection in the shield, beheads medusa (only medusa was mortal) and puts her head in kibisis, flies away with cap of invisibility

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15
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from medusa’s body

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chrysaor (he of the golden sword) and pegasus, father was poseidon

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16
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athena/ medusa and the flute

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athena invented the flute in imitation of the gorgons lament for medusa’s death.

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17
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perseus returns to seriphos

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18
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andromeda parents

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king cerephus (ethiopia) and cassiepea, she boasted andromeda more beautiful than the nereids, poseidon flooded and sent sea monster

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19
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andromeda rescue

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oracle told cepheus andromeda had to be offered to monster, perseus killed with scimitar and married her

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20
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perseus and andromeda son

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perses, after he was born they returned to seriphos and left him as heir to cepheus’s kingdom

21
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phineus

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andromeda’s previously bethrothed, perseus kills with gorgon head

22
Q

what does gorgon blood create

A

poisonous snakes of libyan desert
atlas into mountain range (when he doesn’t show hospitality)
creation of coral

23
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death of acrisius

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acrisius hears that perseus is alive, goes to larissa in thessaly. perseus competes in games in larissa and throws a disc that accidentaly kills acrisisus. perseus returns to tiryns insteado of argos and exchanges kingdoms with megapenthes (proteus son) cause he feels bad and eventually founds mycenae

24
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persesus myth format

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closest of all legends to a folktale, danae follows the “girl tragedy”

25
Q

other legends of argos

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reflects important and intimate relationship with the argive plains and egypt (inachus family)

26
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descendants of io

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kingdoms of crete, thebes, phoencia

27
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daughters of danaus myth

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twins aegyptus and danaus (great grandsons of io) argued over kingdom, danaus left with his 50 daughters (danaids) to become king of argos. (subjects = danai) aegyptus had 50 sons, who pursued danaids to marry. Danaus gave daughters daggers to kill husbands, all did except for hypernmestra, who spared lynceus. 49 punished in the underworld. hypernmestra grandmother of proteus and acrisus.

28
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electryon death

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was king of mycenae, accidentally killed by amphitryon who is sentenced to exile in thebes and takes electryons daughter alchemena

29
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alchemena and amphitryon

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alchemena will not lie with amphitryon until he avenges her brothers by attacking the teleboans, he does but zeus disguises himself and extends the night 3x, when amphirtryon returns she only believes him because of tiresias. alchemena has twins heracles and iphicles

30
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hera’s wrath and zeus’s trickery

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zeus boasts about heracles, so hera slows heracles birth and speeds up eurystheus (son of sthenelus) and sent snakes to heracles which he killed

31
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heracles music teacher

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linus keeps complaining about how bad heracles is at the lyre, heracles bashes him in the head with it, charged with murder, acquitted with self defense

32
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exploits in thebes

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freed the thebans and led the army into battle, king creon gave him daughter megara as wife in gratitude

33
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megara and heracles

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he goes mad and kills megara and 3 kids

34
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heracles and the oracle

A

goes to oracle at delphi, she tells him to serve eurystheus for 12 years at tiryns, then he would become immortal

35
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12 labours overview

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first 6 are in the greek peleponese, last 6 in the world, goes from local hero to wordly hero

36
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peloponnesian labours

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  1. nemean lion
  2. lernaean hydra
  3. cerynean hind
  4. erymanthian boar
  5. augean stables
  6. stymphalian birds
37
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  1. nemean lion (important image)
A

exaggerate, rampaging in nemea, instructed to slay lion and bring back skin, stuns with his club and strangles with bare hands, always wears skin after this

38
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  1. auguean stables
A

important because humiliating, diverts water into stables to clean feces

39
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non-peloponnesian labours (overcoming death)

A
  1. cretan bull
  2. mares of diomedes (WRESTLES DEATH)
  3. girdle of hippolyta
  4. cattle of geryon
  5. apples of hesperides
  6. cerebus
40
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  1. apples of the hesperides
A

grew on magical tree guarder by hesperides (3 daughters of night, nymphs) that was a wedding gift to hera, she plants at the foot of mt atlas, only she knows where it is. Sends the serpent ladon to help guard the apples. Heracles looks for atlas and switches to hold up the sky so atlas gets the apple, heracles tricks atlas into switching back, gives apples to eurthyseus who gives them to athena to return to the garden

41
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parega

A

side quests

42
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city of heracles birth

A

thebes

43
Q

althoi

A

contests undertaken for a prize (immortality)

44
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heracles helpers

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athena and nephew iolaus

45
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  1. mares of diomedes parega
A

king admetus is sad about death of his wife alcestis, heracles wrestles with thanatos (death) to get her back

46
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  1. cattle of geryon parega
A

pillars of hercules, kills fire god cacus who steals cattle

47
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  1. nereus
A

sea god nereus tells him where to find garden after turns himself into a bunch of different shapes but heracles does not let him go

48
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  1. apples of herperides parega
A

kills king busiris of egypts who sacrificed strangers to zeus
kills giant antaeus (son of gaia and poseidon, drew strength from earth) by holding him up and crushing him
finds prometheus and releases him

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