Women of legend Flashcards
Pandora context(3):
- Greece
- Written by Hesiod
- First woman
Pandora’s gifts(4):
- Aphrodite: charm
- Hephaestus: made her look like a goddess
- Athena: handy craft
- Hermes: made her cunning
What is the only thing left in the pithos after Pandora let all the evils escape?
Hope
Who was Pandora taken in by?
Epimetheus
Helen in the Iliad(5):
- Greek
- Written by Homer
- She is admired by her beauty “like an immortal goddess”
- She is unwanted in troy because her beauty is problematic
- She regrets leaving her family
Who is Helen’s actual husband?
[2]:
- Menalaus
- He was a Prince of Mycenae and king of Sparta
Helen left her husband for….
Paris
Who is Priam?
Helen’s father-in-law
Helen in the play(5):
- Written by Euripedes
- She is presented as someone who had no control over her whole life
- She blames herself for the trojan war
- She fled to Egypt
- She is struggling to protect her virginity from the king of Egypt, Proteus
The Sabine women(4):
- Rome
- Written by Livy
- Romulus ordered the Sabine women to be kidnapped
- They were fickle and soon fell for their new husbands
How did the Sabine women stop the battle between the Romans and the Sabines?
- They moved the arguing men so much by risking there lives to tell them to stop fighting
Tarpeia context(3):
- Written by Livy
- Rome
- Daughter of general Spurius Tarpeius
Tarpeia story:
Tarpeia said she would let the Sabines into Rome if they gave her their jewelry but instead they crushed her to death with their shields
Alternate Tarpeia :
She asked for the shields instead of their jewelry
Lucretia context(3):
- Rome
- Written by Livy
- Upper-class woman
Lucretia (respect):
- She died by a dagger which was the manly way to die instead of poison which was more common for women
What was the name of Lucretia’s husband?
Collatinus
Who was Helen the Daughter of?
[2]:
Zeus and a mortal woman named Leda
What was Helen renowned for?
[3]:
- Being a Princess
- Being a demi-god
- Being the most beautiful woman in the world
What did Tyndareus do?
He made all the suitors swear an oath that they would go to war against anyone who threatened the marriage that Helen eventually chose
Who was Romulus?
King of Rome
Who was the Sabine King?
Taitus
Who was Sextus Tarquinius Superbus?
[2]:
- The son of the king of Rome; (Tarquinius Priscus)
- He was the man who raped Lucretia
Lucretia’s story [4]:
- She killed herself with a knife because her pudicitia was tainted
- Her husband and father took her to the forum and a crowd gathered
- This lead to a collective uprising against the king
- The king and his family fled and escaped into exile
What did the Poet Ovid say about Lucretia?
“A matrona with a manly spirit”
