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| Who is the father of Persephone? |
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| What piece of writing tells the story of Eleusian Cult? |
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| Who approves Persephone's marriage to Hades? |
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| What flower led to the abduction of Persephone by Hades? |
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| Who is the non-Olympian who heard the cry of Persephone? |
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| What does Demeter do as a result of Persephone's capture? |
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| Leaves Olympus and lives among mortals in Eleusis |
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| Who tells Demeter and Hecate the story of Persephone's abduction? |
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| Who found Demeter at the well of the Maiden? |
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| the daughters of the King of Eleusis |
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| What does Demeter call herself while disguised as a mortal in Eleusis and what is her excuse for being there? |
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| Doso; she escaped from pirates and is looking for work |
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| Who is the Prince Doso takes care of and attempts to make immortal? |
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| Why does Demeter reveal herself to the mortals and cause a famine? |
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| Because the Queen caught her rolling her sun in fire and takes him away |
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Demeter ceases the famine once the gods beg her to |
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| Who is sent to Hades to retrieve Persephone? |
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| What does Hades have Persephone eat before she leaves the Underworl and what happens as a result? |
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| Pomegranate; she must return there for 2/3 of the year |
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| Who are the children of Hades and Persephone? |
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| No one; it was a sterile marriage |
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| What is the fruit of death? |
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| What happens as a result of Demeter bringing grain back to the Earth? |
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| She establishes her cult which lasts until the 4 CE |
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| What is the reward for the members of the Eleusian cult? |
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| What time of year is it when Persephone is with her mother? |
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| What were the four possible meanings of the story of Persephone and Demeter? |
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| metaphor for the four seasons; coming of age for women; sadness of marriage for the mother; explanation for death on Earth |
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| member of the Eleusian cult; could be anyone who spoke Greek except murderers |
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| What is the name for the 2-day Eleusian initiation? |
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| What happened during Telesterion? |
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| Where did Telesterion take place? |
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| Who was the "spreader of grain"? |
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| What is the Roman name for Cybele? |
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| From one of the rocks pyrrha and Decalion used to repopulate the Earth |
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| What was Cybele in charge of and how do you recognize her in art? |
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| fertility, hearing, protection in war, oracles; wears a crown of towers |
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| Zeus ejaculates because of his interest in Cybele and it lands on a rock; Agdestis comes from the rock |
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| How is Agdestis punished for his behavior and who executes his punishment? |
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| Dionyses castrates him by tricking him into drinking from a lake of wine and tying his groin with vines in his sleep |
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| What is created as a result of Agdestis' castration blood? |
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| Who does the pomegranate fruit impregnate? |
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| What is Nana's punishment for becoming pregnant and who is her child? |
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| She is imprisoned by her father; Attis |
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| Who helps raise Attis and who is his unlikely friend? |
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| Who does Attis marry and what happens at their wedding? |
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| the daughter of Midas; Agdestis casts a spell to make everyone worship Attis; Attis and Gallus castrate themselves; Attis' wife kills herself. The pine tree comes from the blood of Attis; Violets come from the blood of Attis and his bride |
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| Where are Attis and his wife buried and what grows from their grave? |
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| Together in a grave; an Almond tree |
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| Who do Cybele and Agdestis beg to give life back to Attis and what happens as a result? |
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| Zeus; he does not bring him back to life but the body doesn't decay, his hair grows, and his pinky finger is always animated |
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| What was the name for the followers of Cybele and what did they do? |
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| Galli; castrated themselves |
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| Who is the lover of Adonis, how does he die, and what happens as a result of his death? |
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| Aphrodite; he is gored by a wild boar that Aphrodite warned him not to hunt; He is turned into an Anemone (flower) |
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| What rites were performed by members of the cult of Adonis? |
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| Women buried seeds in shallow earth and ripped out their hair when the plants died as a symbolic mourning for the death of Adonis |
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| What is the pattern found in the stories of goddesses and their dying consorts? |
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| Blood sacrifice; Earth goddes = permanent fertility of the Earth; the male =renewable through the powers of the Earth mother |
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| What is the roman name for Dionysus? |
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| Bacchus is the god of what? |
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| wine (life force is the sap, instinctive side of personality)and male fertility (phallus and semen) |
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| What animals are associated with dionysus? |
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| Who can be found with grape leaves in their hair or in a grape suit? |
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| What god was late coming to Olympus and sometimes dresses like the opposite sex? |
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| Who is the male complement to Demeter and why? |
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| Dionysus; encourages growth of everything living |
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| What are the basics of the birth of Dionysus? |
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Parents: Zeus and Semele
AKA "Twice Born" because he is ripped from his mother's womb and reborn from the thigh of Zeus
Raised by Ino and them the nymphs |
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| What is the story of Semele? |
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| Princess of Thebes who falls in love with Zeus; tricked by Hera into asking Zeus to prove that he is a god; She asks him to come to her the way he does Hera and she is incinerated |
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| what does Ino do to Dionysus and why? What are the consequences of doing so? |
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| Disguises him as a girl to keep him from Hera; Hera drives Ino and her husband mad. She cuts up her children, puts them in a pot, and runs off a cliff; Transformed into sea deity Leucothea |
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| Who taught Dionysus the art of wine-making |
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| Who is responsible for curing Dionysus of his madness and who cursed him with it? |
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| Cybele, also gives him feminine robes; Hera |
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| a staff wound with ivy leaves and crowned with a pine cone |
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| Who did Dionysus give the golden touch to and why? |
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| Midas, the king of Lydia; He was hospital and helped Dionysus find his lost, drunken satyr |
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| Where does Midas go to get rid of the golden touch? |
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| Who is the wife of Dionysus and where does he find her? |
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| Ariadne; the island of Naxos where she was abandoned by Theseus |
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| What is the name of Dionysus' group of followers and what do they consist of? |
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| Thyiades; Satyrs, Sileni (old satrys), and Bacchae (Maenads are female followers) |
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I pruned my own limbs thinking they were vines and was eaten alive by wild horses because I opposed Dionysus |
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| What is the story of the Daughters of Minyas |
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| AKA minyads; Good Greek women who refused to join Dionysus after he tries to coerce them in the form of a girl, bull, and a panther; Dionysus turns their looms into grapevines, nectar, milk, created darkness and changed them into bats |
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| What is the story of the daughters of King Proteus? |
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| AKA Proteids; cursed with itching (leprosy); went mad and thought they were cows; Seer tells king he'll cure them for 1/3 of kingdom as payment, gets denied, then cures them in return for 2/3 of the kingdom |
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| What is the story of Dionysus and the Pirates? |
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| Etruscan pirates abduct him thinking he is an easy target; the Helmsman figures out he is a god and warns the crew but they do not listen; the ship fills with wine and vines start to grow on it; Dionysus becomes a lion; the entire crew jump into the water and become dolphins but the Helmsman is safe |
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| What is the play and its author that tells the story of dionysus in Thebes? |
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| What is the story of Dionysus in Thebes? |
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| Dionysus goes to Thebes to spread his cult and punish his aunts for spreading lies about his mother; He turns the women of Thebes into mad Bacchae who have orgies in the mountaints |
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| In the land of Thebes, who are the opposed to Dionysus' cult and who accepts it? |
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Accept: Tiresias (seer) and the Old King of Thebes (Semele's father)
Opposed: King Pentheus |
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| What happens between Dionysus and Pentheus? |
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| Pentheus captures and interrogates Dionysus but he escapes; a messenger comes to tell Pentheus what the crazed women are doing and urges him to accept the cult; Pentheus plans to stop the women |
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| What happens as a result of Pentheus trying to stop the female followers of Dionysus? |
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| Dionysus influences him to spy on them in women's clothing, he likes it, Dionysus places him in a pine tree; the women find him there and rip him to shreds |
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| Why does Dionysus go to the Underworld? |
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| To retrieve the soul of his mother |
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| How does Dionysus get to the Underworld and what is the result? |
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| A shepherd helps him find the entrance at the Alcyonean Lake; Semele becomes Thyone (she who receives sacrifice); He searches for the now dead shepherd to reward him but settles for carving a phallus from a fig tree onto his grave |
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| What is the meaning of Thyrsus? |
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| What is the Lydian meaning of Dionysus? |
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| What other things is Dionysus associated with? |
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| "He of the Trees"; Blossoms, Ivy, Black goatskin; "Boukoloi" (bull-herders); Wet vegetation; life force and death; dying fertility god; possible original consort of Semele |
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| Who represents Greek aversion to violence and irrationality and takes over Delphi when Apollo goes on vacation? |
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| How was the cult of Dionysus different from others? |
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| Direct and personal and gives freedom from everyday reality |
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| What are the 5 terms associated with the cult of Dionysus and their meaning? |
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| Euthousiasmos (being filled with the god); Ekstasis (standing outside oneself); Lysios (deliverer); Sparagmos (tearing apart); Omophagia (eat raw human flesh) |
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| Females favored the cult of which god? |
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| Where and during what event were tragedies performed in honor of Dionysus? |
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| Lenaea and Dionysa; Festival of the Maenads |
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| What were the logistics of the Festival of Maenads? |
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| 3 days of tragedy; 3 plays/ day; each day ends with a satyr play |
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| What are the three main theories of Dionysus' relation to theater? |
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| Emerged from choral dance in honor of him; religious mystery of performances; ritual for mourning a dead hero |
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| Who was Thespis, when did he live, and what did he do? |
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| Creator of theater as we know it; During the time of Pisistratus the tyrant of Athens; made festivals of Dionysus available to Athenians and had citywide drinking parties to celebrate the new change to theater |
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| What did most people consider to be the causes of death? |
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| hostile forces from natural/human world or the supernatural world |
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| What is the Ancient Greek term for "soul" |
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| What were the 6 common ways of appeasing the dead? |
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| Funeral, Bury valuables, ritual mourning, making it a tomb with a feast; human sacrifice; and wearing dark clothing/scratching yourself and crying |
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| What are the four names for Hades and their meaning? |
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| Pluto; Dis; Polydegmon (receiver of many); Polyxenos (host of many) |
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| What are the 3 types of landmarks in the Underworld? |
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| Rivers (Styx-abhorent; Lethe-oblivion); Tartarus; Elysium/Elysian Fields |
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| Who are the two main workers in the Underworld and their role? |
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| Charon (fairy man that must be paid to cross river Styx); Cerebrus (3 headed dog that keeps you from leaving the Underworld) |
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| What is another name for the Eurinys and where did they live? |
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| What is the name for the Judges of the Underworld and what was their purpose? |
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| Arbitrators; keep the peace between the dead |
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| Name the 5 damned individuals and their treacherous deeds |
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| Tityus (tried to rape Leto); Tantalus (feeds the gods his son Pelops at a banquet); Sisyphus (tried to cheat death by saying he had to go home to make sure his wife buried him correctly; refused to come back; must roll a boulder up a hill forever); Ixion (tried to rape Hera; strapped to a spinning wheel); Danaids |
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| Who are the two sources for life in the Underworld? |
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| Homer (Archaic) and Virgil |
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| What is the basic story of Odysseus? |
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| After the Trojan war he travels fromTroy to Ithaca (home) but it takes him 10 yrs to get there because of various "distractions" along the way |
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| Who was Odysseus told to seek counsel from? |
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| Tiresias, the now dead blind seer who lived for 7 generations |
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| What is the story of Tiresias? |
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| Killed a female snake having sex; turns into a female; later kills a male snake having sex and turns back into a male |
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| Who do Hera and Zeus go to to settle their dispute on which gender enjoys sex more and what happens as a result? |
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| Tiresias; he says women enjoy it more (meaning Hera was wrong) and Hera makes him blind. Zeus gives him prophecy and a long life to make up for it |
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| How does Odysseus get into the Underworld to find Tiresias? |
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| the land of Cimmerians; makes a pit of liquid and blood sacrifices so the dead come to him |
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| Who are the dead that appear to Odysseus and what do they say? |
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| Elpinor (former shipmate; asks for proper burial); His mother; Eidolon of Heracles; Menalaus King of Spartus( lives in Elysium); Achilles |
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| What is the story of Orpheus of Thracion? |
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| The greatest mortal musician whose wife (Eurydice) is killed by a snake bite; Goes to the Underworld where he begs to have her back (plays his music); gets her soul but is told he can't look at her till they reach the surface; he looks and she is gone forever |
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| Who is blamed for introducing homosexual activity and is ripped apart by followers of Dionysus? |
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| A collection of writings that describe a different cosmogany that ensure a happy afterlife |
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| What is different about the Orphism cosmogany (3)? |
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| Chronos and Andrasteia (necessity); Aether and Chronos have Phane (makes everything); Zeus swallows Phanes along with all other creations |
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| Who remakes all creations in Orphism? |
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| In Orphism who is born from Zeus and Persephone? |
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| In Orphism who are the parents of Dionysus? |
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| What is another name for metempsychosis? |
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| According to Orphism, how could you break the cycle of reincarnation? |
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| through Ascetic purity and magic formulas |
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| Who did reincarnation influence (3)? |
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| Plato, Virgil, and early christians |
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| Who said that the soul is a divine spark in an Earthly body? |
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| Who wrote the Myth of Er? |
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| Plato in Republic (spoken by socrates) |
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| A soldier named Er dies in battle but comes back to life to tell what he saw |
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| What does Er say that he learned? |
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| Souls end up in a place where there are openings up and down; after 1000 yrs of torment or bliss you return to Earth to a life that you choose; approved by Atropos; Drink from river of forgetfulness before you return |
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| What is the river of forgetfulness? |
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| The soul is ____ and ____ law governs the world |
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| Where is the story of Aeneas found? |
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| What is the story of Aeneas? |
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| The Trojan Prince who has to find a new home after the war; guided by Sibyl of Cumae so he can ask his dead father for advice |
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| What are the characteristics of Virgil's Underworld? |
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| There is a judgement; spirits live in Elysium or Tartarus for 1000 yrs; good spirits are purified so they can return to a new life on Earth |
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| Who are the different groups of dead in the Underworld? |
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| Infants, Wrongly convicted, suicides, died for love, soldiers |
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| What are the 5 components of the Heroic pattern? |
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| impossible tasks, divine parentage, quests, kingdoms to be won, divine help |
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| What area is associated with Perseus? |
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| What areas are associated with the Argive Plain? |
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| Tiryns, Mycenae, Argos; AKA Argolid |
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| What areas is Io associated with? |
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| An Oceanid descendant who is a priestess of Hera desired by Zeus |
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| What is the story of Zeus and Io? |
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| Zeus wants Io so he changes her into a cloud then a cow to hide her from Hera; Hera decides she wants the beautiful cow and Zeus gives it to her; Hera has Argus (made of eyes) watch over it; Zeus sends Hermes to kill Argus and he sings him to sleep to do so; Hera puts the eyes of Argus in the peacock |
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| Describe the wanderings of Io and its cause |
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| Tormented by a gadfly sent by Hera; she flees all over the world and meets Prometheus while he is tied down at Caucausus Mts; He says Zeus will free her once she reaches Egypt and they will have Epaphus; Descendant will be Heracles |
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| Who is Io often associated with? |
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| Describe the Danaids (who they were and what they did) |
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| Descendants of Io who live in Argives; murder their husbands and bury the heads in a swamp; one spares her husband and they become the House of Argos |
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| Grandson of the House of Argos who attempts to keep his daughter from men so that she can's have a son who will kill him |
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| Who does Acrisius consult about his future? |
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| Who are the two grandsons of the House of Argos? |
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| Acrisius (rules in Argos); Proteus (rules in Tiryns) |
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| Which grandson of the House of Argos has daughters but wants sons? |
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| What is the story of the daughter of Acrisius? |
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| imprisoned in an underground chamber by her father; Zeus comes to her in the form of a golden shower and impregnates her; Perseus is their son |
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| What is the story of the early life of Perseus? |
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| is put in a box with his mother and thrown into the ocean by Acrisius; they were rescued by Dictys (fisherman/brother of Polydectes) at Seriphos |
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| Why does Perseus set out on his quest? |
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| Polydectes wants his mother; she does not want him; Perseus protects her from him; Polydectes (pretending to be in persuit of another woman) sends Perseus on a quest for head of Medusa to get rid of him |
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| How many Gorgons are there? |
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| 3; Medusa is the only one not immortal |
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| Who offers to help Perseus and how? |
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| Athena says the nymphs might know where to find Medusa; Graceae helps him find the nymphs |
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| What are the magical implements of Perseus' journey? |
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| Cap of Hades (invisibility); winged sandals; Kibisis (leather pouch); Extra sharp sword; highly polished bronze shield |
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| Describe the death of Medusa |
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| pregnant at time of death; Pegasus and Chrysaor (giant) were born from her headless body; her head killed Polydectes when Perseus showed it to him |
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| What is the story of Perseus and Andromeda? |
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| Andromeda was going to be sacrificed to Ceto the sea monster because her mother (cassiopea) said she was more beautiful than the Nerieds; Perseus kills the monster with head of Medusa; son is Perses (ancestor of Persians) |
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| Describe the death of Acrisius |
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| Perseus returns to Argos;Acrisius flees; Perseus participates in a sporting event where he accidentally kills a spectator with a discus (Acrisius) |
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| Define Apotropaic. What does it refer to? |
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| wards off evil; the head of Medusa whose blood mixed with desert sand created scorpions and coral when mixed with sea weed |
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| What is the deeper meaning behind the story of Perseus according to Freud? |
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| Medusa's head represents the female genitalia; reflection of the social conditions (overthrowing the mother to join the world of the father); medusa might not even be a part of the original Perseus story |
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| Herakles is the descendant of ____ |
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| Herakles is a hero of ____ and physical strength |
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| What kind of hero is Herkles? |
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| Who are the children of Perseus? |
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| Electryon (had 9 sons and one daughter); Alcaeus; Sthenelus |
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| Who are the grandchildren of Perseus? |
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| Alcemena; Amphitryon; Eurystheus |
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| Who kills 8 of Electryon's sons? |
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| What is the story of Elecrtryon's revenge? |
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| Left Alcemena with Amphitryon to avenge his sons; Amphitryon kills Electryon and Alcmena says he has to avenge her brothers or she won't have sex with him |
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| What role does Zeus play in the quarrel between Alcmena and Amphitryon? |
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| He disguises himself as Amphitryon and has sex with Alcmena |
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| What happens as a result of Zeus boasting that his seed would rule Mycanae? |
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| Hera speeds of the birth of Eurytheus (diluted descendant of Zeus) so he becomes king instead of Hercules |
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| What is the story of the birth of Heracles? |
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| Hera keeps the goddess of childbirth from assisting Alcmena; Alcmena's servant tricks the goddess by saying the child is born so she unwinds herself and Heracles is born; the servant is turned into a weasel |
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| Who are the children of Alcmena? |
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| What are the youthful deeds of Heracles? |
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| killing serpents; created the Milky Way from spitting out Hera's milk; Finest training and education; Kills Linus music teacher (self-defense?); has sex with 50 daughters of Thespius in one night |
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| Who is the wife of Heracles? |
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| Megara the daughter of Creon |
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| What does Heracles do to his family and why? |
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| He kills his wife and 3 children because Hera drives him mad |
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| What is the punishment for Heracles' crime of blood guilt? |
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| he has to serve his cousin Eurytheus as punishment (12 labors; wins immortality) |
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| What are the 12 Labors of Heracles? |
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| Nemean Lion; Lernaean Hydra; Ceryneian Deer; Erymanthian Boar; Augean Stables;Stymphalian birds; Cretan Bull; Horses of Diomedes; Girdle of Hippolyta; Cattle of Geryon; Apples of the Hesperides; Cerberus |
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| Where does the knowledge of the 12 labors come from? |
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| the Temple of Zeus at Olympic Metopes |
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| What are the side deeds of Hercles? |
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| Describe the Various Deeds of Heracles? |
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| Wants to remarry; wins Io;e in archery contest but her dad won't give her up; stole horses to get back at him and kills his son Iphitus |
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| What happens as a result of Heracles seeking cleansing from blood guilt a second time? |
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| The Oracle at Delphi denies him; Heracles tries to steal the tripod; Apollo agrees to purify him if he serves a woman for 3 yrs and gives all earnings to Eurytus, King of Oechalia |
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| what happened as a result of Heracles attempting to steal the tripod? |
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| Apollo came down to stop him (tug of war) and Zeus had to separate them with a lightening bolt |
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| Who bought Heracles from the slave market? |
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| What is the story of Heracles and Omphale? |
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| She buys him at a slave market as a lover; they trade clothes in a cave one day so Pan tries to have sex with Heracles; reason why Pan gives up clothing (they're deceptive) |
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| Why does Pan give up wearing clothing? |
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| Tries to have sex with Heracles who was dressed as a woman; believes clothes are deceptive |
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| What is the meaning of "Deianira"? |
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| what is the story of Heracles, Deianira and the Underworld? |
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| Heracles battles river god Achelous for Deianira and wins; centaur Nessus tries to rape her on the way back; Heracles kills Nessus but gives Deianira a "love potion" from his blood before he dies; Heracles also fights for Iole and wins |
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| Describe the death of Heracles |
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| H goes away to make a sacrifice to Zeus; Deianira remembers H loves Iole and could be cheating so she coats a shirt in the "love potion" and sends it to H via their son as a gift; shirt torments him; shepherd lights his funeral pyre |
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| Who else dies with Heracles? |
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Definition
| the messenger and Deianira (suicide) |
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| What happens after the death of Heracles? |
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Definition
| the shepherd receives his bow and arrow; he becomes a god of Olympus and marries Hebe; Odysseus sees his "shade" in Underworld |
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| Describe the character of Heracles |
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Definition
| Sufferingl Averter of Evil (Alexikakos); monster-slayer; man of excess, most loved of all Greek heroes |
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| Who vows to kill Heraklidae and who are they? |
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Definition
| Eurystheus; many sons of Heracles+ |
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| Where were the Heraklidae hidden? |
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| Who kills Eurystheus and what happens to his body? |
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| hyllus; Alcmena defiles it (cuts it up) |
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| What is the story of the conquering of Peloponnesse? |
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Definition
| Heraklidae tried to conquer it and were told they would be successful at the 3rd harvest; thought it referred to agricultural harvests but it meant generations of ppl |
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| What were the five areas of excellence for Classical Athens? |
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| Architecture and Art (Parthenon); Drama (Aeschylus); Philosophy (Sophocles, Euripides); Military; Politics (democracy) |
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| what are the three stories of Athenian origin? |
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Definition
| from mortal Cecrops (snaky); Athena; Autochthanous (from the Earth itself--grasshoppers) |
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| What are the characteristics of the Golden age? (cecrops) |
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| Arts of civilization; worship of Zeus; End of Human sacrifice; building of cities; proper burial of dead; monogamous marriage |
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| Who is the "man of wool and Earth"? |
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| Who are the parents of Erichtnonius? |
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| Hephaestus and wool (Athena) |
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| What is the story of Athena and Erichthonius? |
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Definition
| She wants to make him immortal; she places him in a basket and gives it to daughters of Cecrops telling them not to open it; they fall off the Acropolis for looking; Athena takes him back to raise as her own |
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| What daughter of Cecrops is the only one that does not look in the basket? |
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| Describe the Festival of Dew Carriers |
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| based on myth of the daughters of Cecrops; Yearly ritual of the Arrhephoria (dew carriers--2 lived on Acropolis; wove robe for wooden statue of Athena in Erechtheem; sent to Athena's grove and returned with strange object in baskets |
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| Who are the daughters of Pandion? |
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| What is the story of Procne and Tereus? |
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Definition
| they marry and have son Itys; their wedding is overseen by the Furies; Tereus goes to fetch the sister Philomela, rapes her, cuts out her tongue, and abandons her telling Procne she died |
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| How is Philomela rescued? |
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Definition
| she weaves the story of her plight and sends it to Procne; Procne kills Itys and makes him into stew to get back at Tereus; sisters change into a nightingale and a swallow |
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| What is the story of Theseus' birth? |
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Definition
| Aegeus king of Athens had no sons and went to the oracle to find out if he could get some; oracle said do not open the wine skin until he gets home but he was confused; he stays with Troezan who figures it out and tricks him into sleeping with his daughter Aethra; she also "sleeps" with Poseidon |
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| what was the relationship between Theseus and his mortal father? |
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Definition
| He had to be raised in secret and could not visit him until he was strong enough to lift a boulder where his father placed a sword and sandals |
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Term
| How does Theseus choose to reach Athens and what happens as a result? |
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Definition
| Chooses land instead of sea; 6 Labors of Theseus |
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Term
| What are the six labors of Theseus? |
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Definition
| Periphetes, the clubber; siris, the pinebender; Crommyonian Sow; Sciron the kicker; Cercyon the wrestler; Procrustes, the bed-fitters |
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| What is the story of Theseus' arrival at Athens? |
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Definition
| Aegus does not recognize him because he is spelled by Madea; aegeus sends him to kill bull on Marathon (father of minotaur); Madea tries to poison Theseus but Aeugus saves him by recognizing the sword |
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Term
| What changes does Theseus make to Athens? |
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Definition
| Synoicism, Panathenaic festival, assembly; abducts queen of Amazons |
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| What is the result of the Amazonomachy? |
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