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40 Cards in this Set
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Reminder of Myth Types-
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Divine Myth, Legend/Saga, Folktale
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"Hero"
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Greek word for "noble". Legends are stories of Heroes, it is analogous to History and has elements of folktale
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The Mycenaean Age is also called the ...
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Late Bronze Age (1600-1100 BCE)
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2 Major Divisions of Greek Heroes
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Older heroes - Long before the Trojan War, younger heroes- just before or during the Trojan War
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10 Folktale Motifs of Heroic Quests...
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1: Unusual Conception/Birth (often Divine)
2.Immediate Opposition (Threat at Birth) 3. Enemies Instigate Accomplishments (Direct Challenge) 4. Assistance (Divine or Mortal) 5. Insuperable Challeneges (Crazy hard Quest) 6. Various Adventures/Tempations (human, monsterous, divine, physical, spiritual, sexual) 7. Taboos (various prohibitions) 8. Triumph over death (Katabasis) 9. Reward (marriage, power, wealth) 10. Death (obscurity or disgrace) |
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Cadmeia
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Means Acropolis, aka Thebes
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Armed men who fight only each other spring up because...
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A serpent which was sacred to Ares was killed and Athena advised Cadmus to sow its teeth. Only 5 men survive
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"Spartoi"
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"Sown men", nobility of Thebes descended from them
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Cadmus
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Founds citadel (Thebes), serves as Ares slave for 1 year after killing his sacred snake, at the end of service he marries Harmonia (Ares & Aphrodites daughter)
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Wedding Gift...
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Hephaestus gives Harmonia a necklack as a wedding gift
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Cadmus & Harmonia's children
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Semele (mother of Dionysus), and Agave (Mother of Agave)
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Cadmus & Harmonia transformed into...
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Serpents
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Antiope
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Raped by Zeus, gives birth to Amphion and Zethus but abandoms them on Mt. Cithaeron
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Amphion & Zethus
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Twins born of Antiope and Zeus (rape) left on mountain, found by a shepard, Amphion grows up to be a musician, and Zethus a shepherd. They kill their mothers oppressor (Lycus) and become rulers of Cadmeia
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Amphion uses music to...
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build the walls around Thebes
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Zethus marries
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Thebe...and the city's name is changed
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Oedipus Tyrannus AKA
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Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King
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Sophocles' 3 plays
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Sometimes called the Theban Trilogy. 1. Oedipus Tyrannus 2. Antigone 3. Oedipus @ Colonius
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Xenia
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Guest/Host relationship (Zeus and Ixion, Laius and Pelop)
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Laius raped...
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Hosts son Chrysippus
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Pelops casts curse of Laius, but once he returns from Exile...
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He becomes the King of Thebes and marries Jocasta
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The Delphic Oracle tells Laius..
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Hes destinied to die at the hands of his own son, which is his punishment for raping Chrysippus
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On Mt. Cithaeron..
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Oedipus is taken after his birth and spikes are driven through his ankles. But he is resuced by Corinthian shepard and is raised by King and Queem of Corinth - Polybus & Merope, they name him.
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"Oedipus" means..
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"Swollen foot"
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Oedipus is mocked for being adopted, the Delphic Oracle tells him
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he is desitned to kill his father and marry his mother. He didnt want to do this so he vowed to never return home and instead went to Thebes. Along the way he kills a nobleman and his attendants, not knowing that Laius is his true father, and the oracle is being fulfilled.
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Sphinx
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"The Strangler"
Was terroizing Thebes and eats/kills those that couldnt answer his riddle "4 legs, 2 legs, 3 legs" |
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Sphinx commits suicide why?
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Oedipus answers his riddle (Man-infant, adult, old age) and because of this becomes king of Thebes and Marries Jocasta (His mother, other half of prophecy)
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Oedipus & Jocasta children:
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2 sons - Polyneices & Eteocle
2 daughters- Antigone & Isemene |
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Later plague comes on Thebes, why?
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The murderer of their king Larius is still among them, so Oedipus vows a curse on the murderer
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Messengar comes from Corinth to tell Oedipus
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Polybus is dead, Oedipus is to be King of Corinth, he doesnt want to go back in fear of marrying his mother, but the messenger reveals the truth that Oedipus is not biologically their kid, Jocasta realizes what has happened and hangs herself, Oedipus finds her dead and blinds himself
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Antigone
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Leads her father Oedipus after he blinds himself. He goes out to Colonus, but is rejected there.
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Oedipus' death?
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Mysterious and unknown. Disappears...
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Eteocle & Polyneices
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Sons of Oedipus, cursed by their father, Eteocles is the king of Thebes, while Polyneices is exiled from Thebes.
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Exiled Polyneices
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Steals Harmonia Necklace (wedding gift from Hepheastus) and declares war on Thebes with 6 others including Adrastus & Tydeus
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Adrastus & Tydeus
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Part of the 7 who attack Thebe. Adrastus is the King of Ardos while Tydeus was exiled from Arcadia
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Attack Fails...
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7 gates to Thebes, 7 heroes at each one. Eteocle and Polyneices battle it out and both die. This failure was prophesied by Tiresias (Prophet of Underworld)
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Only 2 survive the attack of Thebes
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Amphiarus: A seer who is later swallowed by the earth and become Chthonic Hero.
Adrastus: Saved by divine steed Arion |
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Arion
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Offspring of Poseidon and Demeter, saves Adrastus in the attack aganst Thebes
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Creon
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Antigone's uncle, becomes King of Thebes when Polyneicces and Eteocles die. He decides Polyneices shouldn't recieve proper burial, Antigone protests, Creon sentances her to be imprisioned w/o food or water, so she hangs herself.
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Tiresias
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Had a sex change because he struck 2 snakes who were copulating and was changed into a woman for 7 years. Prophet of Underword..how'd he get that? Jupiter asked who gets more pleasure out of sex, he agreed with him and said women, so Juno made him go blind but Jupiter rewarded him with the power of prophecy
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