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Week 12 Flashcards

1
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  1. cerebus
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most explicit conquest of death, heracles asks hades and persephone who agree as long as he doesnt use weapons, wrestles cerebus, brings to eurytheus and then returns to hades

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ghost of meleager

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only ghost that doesnt flee from heracles (past hero), who offers him his sister deianira

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heracles and achelous

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wrestels deianira suitor river god achelous, breaks off one of horns but gives it back to him, rewarded with the horn of amalthea (food horn)

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heracles and nessus

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they go home to tiryns, but have to cross a river, centaur nessus offers to carry her, he tries to rape her, heracles shoots with arrow and tells deianira to gather his poison blood

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heracles and iole

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falls in love, wants to marry so wins an archery competition, father eurytus says no

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heracles and iole brother

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takes iole to a little citadel and kills her brother who comes looking for his horses in madness

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heracles atonement

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goes to oracle at delphi, she is silent, he tries to steal the tripod, apollo comes and they wrestle, broken up by lightning from zeus

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8
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heracles punishment

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sold to queen omphale of lydia for a year, her lover and humiliating tasks

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9
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deianira’s reaction

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told by herald lichas, heracles requested a new marriage robe, she soaks it in nessus poison, mortal part of him dies and deianira kills herself

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10
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apotheosis

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the process of becoming a god

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god heracles marries

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hebe

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12
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heraclidae

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mother and children persecuted by eurytheseus, athenians defeat him, macaria voluntarily sacrifices herself

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13
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return of heracleidae

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oracle says after 3 generations they can go back and reclaim peleponese (explains occupation of dorian tribes)

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14
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minyae

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crew of the argo, leading heroes before the trojan war

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iolcus

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jason’s birthplace and location of main part of the saga

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16
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what the argo means to homer

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“all men’s concerns”

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17
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aea and aeetes

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land / man of the land (folktale elements, personification of the land)

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king athamas and wife 1

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king athamas (unlucky), takes cloud nymph nephele for his wife, 2 kids, phricus and helle, she returns to the sky and leaves children

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king athamas wife 2

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ino, daughter of cadmus of thebes, 2 sons, very jealous of phricus

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20
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ino’s plot

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gets women to plant dead sea grain so there is no harvest, they ask oracle, ino bribes for false report to sacrafice first born

21
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golden ram appearance

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upset athamas takes phricus onto mountain, golden ram appears, sent by nephele with helle on it, helle falls off above dardanelles (hellespont straights)

22
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phricus at colchis

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welcomed to colchus by aeetes, gives aeetes golden fleece, hung and guarded in a tree

23
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athamas brother

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cretheus, king of iolcus, after his death his stepson pelias deposes rightful heir aeson, (jason’s dad)

24
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pelias oracle

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“beware of the man with one sandal”

25
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jason stream

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jason heads back to iolcus, on the way helps an old lady cross a stream (hera), becomes her favorite and loses a sandal

26
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jason teacher

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chiron (stillborn rumor)

27
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building of the argo

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argus, son of phrixus, magic prow with power of speech as athena’s gift

28
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jason challenge pelias

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pelias promises to yield throne after jason brings him golden fleece

29
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orpheus and heracles

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not originally in story, but prominent in story

30
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character of those on the argo

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all great men, some have gifts, some stand out

31
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voyage to colchis: island of lemnos

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isle of sex starved women, punsihment from aphrodite due to lack of worship, had them kill all their husbands (thoas survived), queen hypsipyle says the argonauts should stay for a year, they have lots of kids, before remebering their purpose

32
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voyage to colchis: cyzicus and cios

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welcomed by king cyzicus, they leave but at next habour they are pushed back, battle which cyzicus is accidentaly killed, bury him and leave. heracles breaks an oar boasting, they pull ashore at cios, hylas taken by water nymphs, heracles leaves expedition

33
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amycus

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polydeuces kills ugly giant in boxing match

34
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voyage to colchis: symplegades / euxine sea

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only way to escape clashing rocks is if dove makes it through, dove loses a tail feather, ship loses ornament, symplegades remain fixed after
euxine sea = more deaths, take sons of phrixus aboard

35
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phineus and the harpies

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zetes and calais drive away harpies (the snatchers) in exchange for info from blind prophet (punished by apollo for abusing gift of prophecy) warns about symplegades

36
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jason at colchis

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cruel aeetes will only let jason take the fleece if he performs impossible tasks, oracle says foreigner is supposed to be his undoing

37
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aeetes tasks

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yoke the fire breathing bulls, sew dragon’s teeth/ fight subsequent army

38
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medea

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aeetes daughter, priestess of hecate and niece of circe falls in love with jason (eros) and give him a magic ointment / drugs the serpent

39
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euripides medea

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medea kills the dragon

40
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jason and medea flee

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sets sail with fleece, pursued by colchians under medeas brother apsyrtus, who medea tricks and jason kills in ambush

41
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ovid’s jason

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a heroic figure

42
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pindar’s return narrative

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brief clean journey back

43
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apollonius of rhodes return narrative

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  1. circe purifies jason and medea
  2. same dangers as odysseus
  3. jason and medea married among phaeacians
44
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pelias in argo’s absence

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thinks the argo has sunk, kills all of jason’s family, super surprised by jason return, does not honour his pact

45
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medea’s pelias plot

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rejuvenates jason’s father and a ram to show him, daughters see this and brings pelias, she kills him instead

46
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pelias death aftermath

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murder enrages iolcus, jason and medea driven to corinth

47
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jason and medea in corinth eumelos

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medea becomes queen of corinth, respects hera, kids die

48
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jason and medea in corinth (euripides)

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jason divorces medea to marry glauce (cresua), medea posions wedding gift of robe, which kills glaucea and father, medea kills her children and flees to athens

49
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jason death

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jason never recovers from children death, old and depressed, killed by rotted away prow of argo

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