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Perseus is from?
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Argos (Region) Argolid (City)
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Argos has legendary connections with...
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Corinth, Thebes and Mycenae
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Argive saga centers around...
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Hera
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Hera's oldest temple in Greece is located...
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in Argos, Argive Heraion-Religious complex
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Argos becomes sacred to Hera When Phoroneus-Epithet-earliest human habitat in the area-1st of men
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establishes a kingdom and holds a contest between Hera and Poseidon. Hera wins
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Poseidon's revenge on Argos for not picking him
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Dries up rivers, which have been dry ever since.
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Perseus
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1st in importance, not in time
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Perseus's Grandfather Acrisius rules in Argos, Oracle tells Acrisius that his daughter's son will kill him
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So he locks Danae in a Bronze chamber. Zeus impregnates Danaeby by way of a shower of gold.
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Danae keeps her son Perseus hidden from her father for four years
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When Acrisius found out about Perseus he looked him and Danae in a chest and through them into the ocean
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Danae and Perseus landed on the island of Seriphos
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Dictys-fisherman(exiled) brother to the king Polydectes (like most brother's in mythology they fight for power)
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King Polydectes wants to marry Danae, but she refuses.
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Polydectes throws a banquet to impress her and requires that all guest brong the gift of a horse to give to Danae
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Perseus does not think the Pollydectes is good enough to marry his mom
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Perseus says that the gift of a horse is nothing he will bring the gorgon's head. Polydectes challeges Perseus to the quest.
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Helper of Perseus and his quest to get the gorgons head
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Athena(gorgon's head=Aegis, which she wears around her neck) and Hermes (associated with argos and the peloponnesus.
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Perseus goes to see the Graiai (Gray/old women) 3 sisters
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only one tooth and one eye, only give advice under duress, he steals their eye and refuses to give it back until they give him advice.
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after seeing the graiai, Perseus goes to see the Nymphs
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who give him magic objects and directions to find the Gorgon Medusa
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Magical Gifts
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Winged Sandals, Invisibility cap, Kibisis(leather bag or satchel), Scimitar(curver sword from the middle/near east)(from Hermes)
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Gorgons are located in North Africa at the “edge of the world”
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3 sisters that are the daughters of Pontus and Gaia, they have serpent hair and faces that turn one to stone.
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Poseidon’s affair with Medusa
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Medusa is mortal and she becomes pregnant by Poseidon, Pegasus is Poseidon’s and Medusa’s son that springs from her blood, Pegasus is a winged horse.
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Pegasus’s hoof- hits Mt. Helicon
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and creates the Hippocrene fountain scared to the muses, sacred water where the draw inspiration
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Athena’s flute
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made to intimidate the mourning songs of the two remaining gorgons for the sister.
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There are two ways the Saga Ends
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Ethiopia/Levant
Andromeda, Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopea becomes Perseus’s wife. Cassiopea boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than the Nereids. Poseidon sends a sea monster to destroy the city and the land, King Cepheus consults Zeus Ammon (Oracle in Egypt), He must sacrifice Andromeda to the monster. Perseus kills the monster and marries Andromeda and turns Phineus (Cepheus’s brother and Andromeda’s fiancée to stone) Andromeda and Perseus return to Seriphos and they have a son Perses, Danae and Danae and Dictys have fleed Polydectess and they are taking refuge at an altar. Perseus turns Polydectes and his court to stone. Danae, Perseus, Andromeda leave for Argos. |
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1st version
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Perseus goes back to Seriphos and turns Polydectes to stone and he and Danae go back to Argos. Acrisius fled to Larissa (Thessaly) Perseus pursues him, competes in an athletic contest, and accidentally kills Acrisius with a discus.
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Perseus must atone for family homicide,
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to atone; he exchanges kingdoms Argos for Tiryns. Perseus establishes Mycenae and becomes its first king
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Perseus has a long line of sons
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who are kings and heroes including Herakles
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Snakes of Libya
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some of medusa’s blood drips into the sand of Libya and turns into thousands of snakes.
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Atlas is turned in the mountain range
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Atlas refuse hospitality to Peresus and in a fit of rage he turns Altas to stone (Mountain Range)
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Coral
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More blood drips out from Medusa’s head into the ocean and makes Coral
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Herakles-god man or hero?
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Great grandson of Perseus. Son of Alcmena and Zeus(disguises himself as her husband Amphitryon, because she is happily married).
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Amphitryon is exiled because of accidental homicide
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Stheneleus (Amphitryon’s uncle) becomes king, Alcmena and Amphityron go to Thebes to be purified by Creon, Alcmena refuses marriage until he avenges her brother’s death.
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Alcmena’s children
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Twin boys because they have two fathers, Herakles(Zeus) and Iphikles (amphitryon)
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Herakles early childhood- Theme-
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Hera’s Hostility because Zeus cheated, sends two snakes to the babies crates, Herakles strangles them.
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Herakles’ education-He is not very smart
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, but he has the best tutors in the world, Amphityron (Chariot champion) and Autolycus (wrestling champion) and also Linus(Son of Apollo) tries to teach Herakles how to play the lyre, but herakles gets frustrated and kills him by hitting him with the lyre.
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Herakles is exiled to Thebes and the pastures of Mt. Cithaeron for killing Linus.
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He frees Thebes from various Monsters. For this he is reward the king’s daughter Megara in marriage.
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Hera again is a bitch and sends madness onto Herakles and he kills
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Megara and their three children. When he becomes sane again he seeks purification in Thebes and then goes to Delphi for advice and a name. Right now he is called Alcides (grandson of Alcaeus), he doesn’’t have his own name. Herakles (glory of Hera, must become glorious in Hera’s eyes) advicetells Herakles to go to Tiryns and perform the labors for king Eurystheus (son of Sthenelus). He will become Immortal after the 12 labors.
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Labors Athloi
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contests for a prize, based on physical abilities
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Herakles Devine helper
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Athena and his nephew Iolaus
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12 labors
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6 in the Peloponnesus (Local hero) and 6 outside that make him a benefactor to humankind
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6 Peloponnesian Labors-
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1. Nemean Lion- Attacked the people of Nemea, he gets his iconography skin and club.
2. Hydra- 9 headed serpent or snake near Argos, 8 mortal heads and 1 immortal, when the head is cut off two replace it. Iolaus cauterizes the stumps after they have been cut off. Hera also sent a giant crap to attack them. 3. Golden Hind- Acadia-Artemis, cannot be killed and bring it back to the shrine, took a full year to hunt 4. Boar Mt. Erymanthus 5.Cleaning the Augean Stables, Augeus, son of Helios and the King of Elis, Diverts two rivers Alpheus and Peneus to clean decades of cattle poop that has piled up. Herakles also beigins the Game sat Olympia in honor of Zeus: paces off the stadium, and designates the olive tree for the crowns. 6. Stymphalion Birds- perhaps man eaters, He uses Castanets given to him by Athena to scare away the birds by clicking them with both hands |
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Non-peloponnesian Labors Benefactors
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7. Cretan Bull- Minos refused to sacrifice it to Poseidon, which was giving to him by Poseidon. Heracles brings it back from crete and frees it. Theseus sacrifices it later.
8. Mares of Diomedes-man eating mares. Herakles tames them feeds diomedes to them and then takes them to Argos and frees them and dedicates them to Hera Alcestis and Admetus-Herakles is entertained by Admetus who grieves for Alcestis, who agreed to die in his place. Herakles wrestles with death for her return. Herakles challenges Hades in a wrestling contest (Conquering death) 9. Belt of Hippolyta-Queen of the Amazons- warrior women, northern limits of the world. Her belt or girdle has magical powers. Herakles kills Hippolyta (Greek vs. Amazons Wars) On Herakles way home from the Amazons- he goes to Troy, rescues Hesione from the sea monster, she is suppose to be sacrificed. King Laomedon was suppose to pay him for saying Hesione, but he cheats him of his fee and later returns and sacks Troy and puts Priam in charge 10. Cattle of Geryon- 2-bodied monster, west-end of a human life (a palace of dying), must steal Geryon’s cattle, he is aided by Helios, golden cup,he sails to the River of Ocean. On his return he sets up the pillars of Herakles at the Atlantic entrance to the Mediterranean Sea and is now called the Rocks of Gibraltar. 11. Apple of the Hesperides- 3 daughters of Night- guarded a tree, far in the west, golden apples. The tree that the apples are on was a wedding gift from Ge to Hera. The serpent Ladon guards them. 1st version-Herakles alone kills the serpent and plucks the apples. 2nd version Atlas helps and Herakles is tricked. Apples=immortality, tree=eternal life and journey to the west=journey to death. He returns via EgyptEgypt, Libya, Caucasus Mountains, frees Prometheus from the rock where he was mounted to the Rock. 12. Cerberus- Herakles kidnaps Cerberus the watch dog of Hades. Herakles is aided by Hermes (easy access to the underworld) and Athena |
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Herakles was also apart of the expeditions of Argos crew
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and the Gogantomachy with Zeus against the Giants, Troy and Pylos wounds Hades- death itself
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After the labors are competed, Herakles marries Deinara, princess of Calydon(very pretty)
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Wrestles with Achelous the horned river gods for her. Achelous can change his shape. They return to Tyrns and the centaur Nessus carries Deinara across the river but then attempts rape, Herakles shoots him with an arrow because he is still on the other side of the river. Nessus is dying and advises Deinara to save his blood as a charm, in case Herakles falls in love with another woman.
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Herakles kills princess Iole’s brother and is unable to find purification;
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Herakles goes to Delphi steals the tripod of Apollo this leads to a fist fight with Apollo. Zeus separates them and orders a year of slavery under Omphale queen of the Lydians. 1st version- acts as her hero doing heroic deeds. 2nd version- dresses as a womena and acts as her handmaid.
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Deianeira finds out that Herakles’ love for Iole,
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She dyes a cloak with Nessos’s blood and gives it to her husband as a gift to restroy their love. Herakles bursts into flames. Extremely larger funeral pyre, it is going to take nine days to die and burn away his mortal aspects.
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After Herakles’ death, he is allowed into Olympus
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He reconciles with Hera, and to show this he is allowed to marry to the daughter Hebe and then he becomes a god.
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The Voyage of the Argos-oldest saga ancient Saga-crew
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heroes before the Trojan war(very OLD). Crew Minyae- seamen (pirates and explorers) of Mycenaean Greece and the expansion intyo asia inor and the black sea afrer 700 BCE Archaic Greece
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Golden Fleece- refers to early mining practices
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dam, stretch across fleece or sheepskin and it collects all of the gold which is where the name comes from.
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Various areas that are related to the Argonauts,
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centered in Boeotia (NE Greece), associated with Iolcus-city (Thessaly), Miletus-city (Asia Minor), and Euxine (black) Sea
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List of Heroes who participated-ones with special gifts- Zetes and Calais-winged sons of Boreas, Polydeuces-Castor’s brother is a boxer.
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Tiphys sters course of argos helmsman. Fathers of Trojan War Heroes- Peleus(Achilles) and Telamon (Ajax Greater). Post Homeric additions- Orpheus and Herakles
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The Argos Saga begins in Boeotca (Orchomenos) King Athamas marries sky goddess Nephele (Cloud) (like Peleus and Thetis)
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She decides that a mortal husband and a mortal life is not for her, so she returns to the sky. Their Children are Helle and Phrixus. King Athamas marries Ino (daughter of Cadmus) she is the first evil step mother, who tries to kill the children, by sowing bad grain so there was famine, King Athamas sends someone to Delphi to find out what they should do to appease the gods, Ino intercepts the message and changes it to you must sacrifice Phrixus.
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Nephele and the golden flying ram-
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Nephele seizes he children and puts them on the golden ram and flys to the east (Dardanelles-the straits that separate Europe and Asia.
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Helle is small and weak and falls to her death
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and to commemorate her they named the place where she fell Hellespont which it is still called today.
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Phrixus- Colchis (eastern Black Sea) is treated as a great hero.
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He marries King Aeetes’ (name means father of the people) Daughter. Phrixus sacrifices the ram and gives the fleece to the King who hangs it in a grove of Ares and it is guarded by a serpent.
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In Iolcus (Thessaly) Cretheus, brother of Athamas
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, king of Iolcus has two sons, Aeson(rightful king, exiled by his brother) and Pelias who now rules. Aeson and Polymede have a son named Jason. Polymedes sends Jason to Chiron for education and safety.
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Pelias and the warning from Delphi
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beware of the stranger with one sandal- he will kill you.
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Jason has come of age and goes back to Iolcus to claim his throne,
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He helps an old woman cross a stream and loses his sandal.
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Hera favors Jason and is hostile to Pelias
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because he has neglected her sacrifices. Sends Phrixus to him in a dream; regain the golden fleece, Pelias sets Jason on his quest: If he recaptures the golden fleece then he will recapture the throne.
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The Argos is a ship- name means swift and was built by Argus with Athena’s help.
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A plank was taken from Zeus’ oracle Dodona shrine and has the ability to speak and commicate directly with the gods.
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The Crew of the Argos
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Every hero wanted to be apart of this. Polydeuces-horseman and boxer, Zetes and Calais-winged sons of Boreas, Tiphys-helmsman, Argus who is the shipwright and Jason.
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Lemnos and the curse of Aphrodite-
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inhabited only by women, they did not give enough sacrifices to Aphrodite so she turned them into Prostitutes. Theirr husbands didn’t want to be with them anymore, so the women killed them. The Argonauts stayed there for a year at Cios northern shores of Asia Minor.
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Herakles and Hylas (water Nymphs)-
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sent out to find freshwater, they split up. The water Nymphs fall in love with Hylas because he is too beautiful for his own good and the pull him into the water and drowned him.
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King Phineus and the Harpies-
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King Phineus-blind prophet is tormented by two harpies because he told the future to someone who did not want to hear it. Zetes and Calais (winged sons of Boreas) Chase away the furies and Phineus warns them of dangers to come.
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Dangers that Phineus warns the Argonauts about
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Symplegades(clashing rocks) No ships have ever passed, if a ship ever does sail between them than they will be ficxed in place. First let a dove go and if it makes it between the two rocks, then paddle as fast as you can and don’t look back.
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Island of Ares- Stymphalian birds
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- herakles clashing shields makes the birds fly away and Zetes and Calais chase them.
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King Aeetes- promises Jason the Golden Fleece if he performs a series of tasks.
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Yoke a pair of bronze footed, fire breathing bulls, plow a large field and sow it with the serpent’s teeth. Medea the daughter of Aeetes, priestess of Hecate, nice of Circe, has magical powers, falls in love with Jason and wants to help him, she gives him magical ointment to protect him from the fire breathing bulls, she also drugs the serpent and captures the fleeces.
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Medea leaves with the Argonauts, to slow her father’s pursuit
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she convinces brother to come too and she cuts him up and the fleet has to stop and collect his limbs which slows him down
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Returning Adventures- Scylla & Charybdis, Siren and the Phaeacians
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The marriage of Jason and Medea stops her father’s pursuit because she is no longer his problem. Libya-they carry the argos across the desert and past the garden of the Hesperiaes guided by Triton.
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Crete meeting with Triton, Talus guardian of the island
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, bronze giant, has Achilles heel:bronze nail or membrane. If it is pierced the the ichor (life blood) flows out.
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Back to Iolcus-the quest ends but the legend continues
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Upon bring back the Golden Fleece, Pelias refuses to give up the throne. Medea rejuvenates Aeson(Jason’s father) and offers to do the same to the daughters of Pelias for Pelias. By cutting him up and then boiling him in special herbs, but for Pelias she does not add the special herbs. Both Jason and Medea are exiled and driven out, they go to Corinth, Jason marries the princess of Corinth. Medea is pissed and kills (Jason and Her)’s two sons and gives a cloak to the princess and she bursts into flames. Jason dies when he crawls under rotten wood for selter and pieces of the rotting Argos fall on his head.
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Homer Heroic Code and its Conventions
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Master warrior, isolation, even within his companions, lives and fights to help his allies and harm his enemies. Gains immortality for acts of great valor and thus remains in the memory of his people
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Aristeaia
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Greatness in battle
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Moniomacheia
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single combat, act of calor, bring down a great enemy
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If Women could be heroes, then they are the Amazons
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The amazons are first dipicted in 575 BCE in an Artistic representation which celebrates Athens Greatness, They are defeated by the great heroes (Herakles or Theseus)
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Herakles and Theseus and the Amazons
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Herakles and the amazons 9th labor the girdle of the Amazon Queen. Theseus war and he takes one as a wife
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Theus and Peirithous raid the home of the Amazons, Theseus Rapes hippolyte (or Antiope) annd takes her home to marry
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the Amazons besiege athens are defeated and Theseus and his Amazon wife conclude a treaty, she gives her independence as an amazon. Theseus and his amazon wife have a son but Theseus abandons her for Phaedra.
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Change in Art and Mythology of the Amazons for Political propaganda
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Amazons dont represent women but threats to the state and Parthenon battles on exterior frieze.
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Trojans and Greek Lapiths and centaurs
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Gigantomachy Amazons and Athenians Athena would have prestige in Athens. The amazons increasingly represent other-eastern strangers barbarians-not civilized not greeks.
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Amazon Society
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Race of warrior women. Live apart from men in the east or near east (maybe asia minor) To conceive girls, to keep the rave and society alive, they capture and enslave men in battle. keep girl children and either killed maimed or returned to their fathers. Men return home after proven pregnancy. Daughters of Ares-unbeatable in battle. Fight from horseback. eager for military campaigns and conquests. Closely connected with Artemis: goddess of hunting and protectorr of young girls especially those in isolation (temple of Braueron)
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Why was the Amazon society invented?
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opposition to patriachal realities and values, Uneasy memory of an earlier (eastern Matriachal) society. Duality in greek though and mythology e.g. Hesiod
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The Amazons are the opposite of the usually Greek women
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Independent and autonomous- can go out of their houses with out male protectors, exposed male children, free without male protector, rides horses- most cities outlawed women riding horses. not weak house bound or ill nourished but strong healthy warriors on the field handle weapons. meet and fight with the greatest greek warriors Achilles Herakles and Theseus
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Typical heroes in heroic model but female
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Athena-typical heroic warrior but female, who becomes less warrior and more a beneficent Amazon who as the ally of zeus upholds his law.
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Tradition of the amazons continues into Roman Literature
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Virgil's Aeneas-Camilla (like Diana) fights for the latin (native people) aga9nst the Roman Trojans. Aeneas justifies the empire but also counts the cost :lost culture, mixing of cultural traditions. Romans also drew on celtic traditions of the warrior Queen Boudicca-celtic warrior woman who almost drove the romans off the island. Cassius Dio (historian) describes her as huge of frame and terrifying bright red hard. The public flogging and rape of her daughters by the Romans lead to her rebellion
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Neither the Roman Camilla or the celtic Boudicca
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hate men or live apart from men or in isolation but both threaten the Empire by the Autonomy and freedom as other symbols of culture.Amazons that are more entergrated into society.
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Iconograpy of the Graeco-Roman Amazon
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Penthesilea Posthomerica 4th c CE. She was beautiful even after she died
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Characteristics of the late Classical Amazon
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Beautiful tale graceful, rider (single) or sometimes with a troop of amazon riders. Closely associated with artemis and Ares. Erotic potential. Dies in battle fighting a great warrior like a great warrior and is mourned by all. Christian thought and Romantic Revival split Greek, roman and celtic amazon
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Good (Romano-celtic)
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Tall blond or redhaired fair skinned Nordic celts in appearance (Camilla Boudicca)
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Bad Greek or Mediterranean
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shorter darker black or brown hair Greek or mediterranean in appearance Sexual lust desire of power
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Modern oppositions between light and darkm northern Europe and the mediterranean
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each stereotype carries it underlying racial and sexual ideologies. Shared caracter trait: both are skilled in the arts of war.
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Good amazons are simple and child like: virginal nature: loner, follows her own path and lives alone and by her own standards
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but when she joins forces with a male hero, she is loyal and lethal in her defense of him(Aristeia) falls in love with the male hero
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Bad amazons are comples mature and dangerous
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through her sexuality and selfishness cheats to achieve her goals
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Amazons in General
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The amazon is a female fighter of greater martial accoplishments who derives satisfaction from killing and fighting. Combines physical attractiveness with masculine characteristics courage endurance action decision making and heroism. In modern versions still in keeping with the traditional good woman the good amazon is heterosexual and wither celibate or monogamous. Bad amazon is lesbian or bisexual. Modern good woman deviations or additions the the amazon model Children and motherhood the quest for human survival Emortality for the entire world
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Modern Amazons
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joan of Arc
wonder woman-magic belt (robe) & bracelets Valeria in Conan the Barbarian (athena) Red Sonja in Red Sonja (good and bad Amazons) Sarah in terminator (a reluctant Amazon) Ripley in aliens (amazons in outer space) |
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Athenians claim that they were never moved or taken over
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AutoChthonous-sprung from the earth, proud to be the native people of their land
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Cecrops
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1st king, not in name but in form. 1/2 human and 1/2 snake-claims that he sprang from the earth. Founds kingdom Cecropia, during his rule, the contest for naming the city took place betwee Poseidon and Athena
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Erichthonius
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also half snake, born of Hephaestus' attempted rape of Athena, (seed is scattered on the ground) Athena puts child in a chest and gives chest to the daughters of Cecrops and says don't look inside. The daughters of course look inside and are driven mad and commit suicide off of the acropolis, Athena brings up Erichthonius
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Erectheus
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grandson of erichthonius and successor both are forms of poseidon. (who used to be as important as zeus in ancient history) 3 earliest kings reflect ates earliest history
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Acropolis
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mycenaean culture fortress or palace contest between poseidon and athena reflects melding of earliest indigenous people and the indo europeans
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After Erectheus, many descendants, many myths and much confusion
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Theseus son of Aegeus king of Athens Great Hero of Attica Son or lover of Poseidon. Cultural descendant of Herakles as Athens grows and increases in power and importance and needs a hero for Attica
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Adventures of Theseus based on the labors of Herakles
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Aegeus-another form of poseidon, Aegeus- Aegean Sea (linked with Poseidon)
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Ageus king of Athens is childless and in need of an heir
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Brother Pallas sends him to an Oracle. Dont undo the wineskin until you're home. Ask advice of Pittheus (king of Troezen)about what the message means. Pittheus drunk and gives him to his daughter of Aethra, she gets pregnant and doesn't tell him who his father is and sends him to Athens, when he can lift the rock under which will be tokens of recognition sword and a pair of sandals
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Adventures or Labors of Theseus 1st 6 on the way to Athens
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In Epidaurus-Periphetes is a lame Giant who brings people into his home and then beats them to death with his club
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Second Labor of Theseus
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In Corinth-Sinis (Pine Bender)- takes two pine tree and ties the guest to both trees and then lets them go which ripes them apart. Theuse does this to sinis to kill him
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3rd Labor of Theseus
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In Isthmus, Monster Sow
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4th Cliffs of Sciron
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Sciron preys on travelers, he makes them kneel and then kicks them into the sea where they get eaten by a giant turtle
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5th in Eleusis
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Cercyon wrestles travelers to the death
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6th in Eleusis or Athens
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Procrustes:stretcher-tortures of the ancient world, lie on a bed if the are too short stretch them too tall saw off there legs. Theseus kills him the same way
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Athens Aegeus and Recognition
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Aegeus is now married to Medea Witch daughter of Helios and was the wife of Jason. Son=Medus(heir). Medea tells Aegeus that Theseus is an assasin and that they should poison him at the banquet. Theseus carves his meat with the token sword which Aegeus recognizes him by and does not poison him. Pallas (brother of Aegeus and his sons also have designs upon the throne:general bloodshed and destruction. Theseus fends off medea and has to fight with Pallas and sons and has to do more labors to atone for the blood murders
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2nd set of labors for Theseus
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Bull of Marathon Brought by Herakles from crete
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2nd set of labors for Theseus
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Crete and the Minotaur Orgins of conflict:Minos' son killed in Athens at Panatheanic games, Minos wages war and Athens agrees to a treaty, 7 girls and 7 boys annually to crete: Labyrinth and the Minotaur, Minos refuses to sacrifice bull given to hims by poseidon, Poseidon is upset and causes Pasiphae (Minos' wife) to fall in love with the bull and she asks Daedalus to build a wooden frame to look like a heffer and she hides inside and then gives birth to the Minotaur
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a€driadne, Daughter of Minos, falls in love with Theseus and helps him
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she gives him thread to retrace his tracks and a special weapon
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The Minotaur
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.5 man .5 bull hidden in the labyrinth because everyone is afraid of the minotaur man eating
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Theseus kills the Minotaur
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escapes the labyrinth sails away to crete. Desers Ariadne on the island of Naxos, where she is found by Dionysus and they have a rare happy marriage
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Theseus forgets to change his black sails to white
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so Aegeus throws himself into the Aegean sea, becomes king, associated with historical reforms and institutions incorporation of villages in county of Attica and refounding of the Isthmian Games (Poseidon)
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Amazons
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Theseus joined Herakles in his expedition against the amazons and his share of the spoils Antiope (concubine) Hippolytus
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Amazons invade Athens in turn defeated Antiope dies in battle
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Temple of Athena Parthenos on the acropolis displays the defeat of the Amazons
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Battle of Lapith and the Centaurs.
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made a mistake and asks the centaurs to the wedding when they consume alcohol(never drank before) they become very drunk. Pirithous and Theseus swear to help each other find wives.
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Theseus wants Helen, (child) kidnapped her, and takes her to Athens but is rescued by the Dioscuri (her brothers)
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Pirithous wants Persephone, with Theseus's help, Pirithous tries to kidnap Persephone, held fast in magic chairs. Herakles frees Theseus, Pirithous stays not yet dead but is part of the dead in Hades
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Theseus, Phaedra (Crete women, princess of Minos) 2nd wife and his son Hippolytus from Antiope
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Battle between aphrodite and artemis to see who is more powerful, Hippolytus, chaste, hunter, vowed to remain a virgin in Artemis' honor. Aphrodite causes Phaedra to fall in love with her step son, While Theseus is gone her maid tells Hippolytus of her love and he rejects her. Phaedra ashamed of her unholy passion for her son, kills herself and leaves a letter for theseus accusing Hippolytus of seduction and rape. Theseus returns and banishes Hippolytus and alls on Poseidon, who sends a bull from the sea and frightens Huppolytus' horses and throw and tramples him. Dies reconciled with his father (tells him what really happened)
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Other adventures of Theseus
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Argonauts, Calydonian Boar Hunt, Theseus is called a second Herakles, Protects Oedipus, secures bones (prosperity) for Athens
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Theseus death one of failure and defeat is driven out of Athens
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Leader of the Athenian forces at Troy, Forced to Leave battle of Troy goes to the island of Scyros and is killed by the local kind for being a pirate, Sons eventually recover the throne. Delphic oracle and a prophecy arises shortly after the Persian Wars: returning Theseus bones to Athens would insure Athenian success and prosperity. Cimon (athenian general fighting on Scyros searched for his body and finding an enormous skeleton complete with bronze armor brought them back to Athens brought about the end of the persian war
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