English Final Flashcards
(102 cards)
The flood
“Jove was like ‘bitches be crazy so fuck ill kill everyone with a flood since they are fighting they all gonna die eventually’”
Lycaon
Tyrant of Arcadia
Jove goes down to earth to stop all the fighting and ends up stopping in Arcadia
He says he doesn’t believe he is a god
Jove flattens his palace with a lightning bold and changes him into a wolf
Deucalion & Pyrrha
Jove flooded the earth. They survived because of their piety
Themis tells them how to repopulate
He tells them to cover their heads and cast the bones o their mother behind them
She is upset that it would be disgracing their mother
He says they have to throw rocks behind them
the stones turn into humans
Io
Young nymph, daughter of the river Inachus
Catches Jove’s eye while walking her father’s banks
He rapes her
Juno gets pissed so Jove turns Io into a cow and gives it to her as a present.
Io tells the story to her father (who doesn’t know its her) using her hoof
She gets turned back into a human and gives birth to Jupiter’s son (Epaphus)
Phaethon
son of Apollo and Clymene
His father is the song god and promises him proof
He wants to drive the sun chariot and he nearly destroys the earth
He is killed by Jupiter
Callisto and Areas
She is one of Diana’s nymphs sworn to virginity
Jove rapes her and gets her pregnant
She gets turned into a bear and her son is raised by the court of King Lycaon
He almost kills his mother while hunting
They both get turned into constellations
Aglauros
The greedy sister of Herse
Minerva gets angry at her for helping Herse and goes to Envy
Envy fills her with so much envy that she cannot bear anyone’s good fortune and happiness and eventually she turns into stone
Europa
Daughter of King Agenor
Jove turns himself into a bull and heads to the shore to be with her
She sits on his back and he takes off to Crete where he reveals his true form
Cadmus
Son of King Agenor
His sister Europa was kidnapped by Jove and he was sent to find her
He asks the oracle of Apollo what to do and follows his directions
He decides to offer a sacrifice to Apollo and his men get killed by a snake
He kills the snake and Minerva instructs him to bury the snake’s teeth in the earth
A giant army rises up and the last five make peace
He lives happily ever after
Diana and Actaeon
He founded Thebes
He was out hunting where he saw her bathing
She got pissed off and turned him into a stag
He was sad and ran towards where he kept his hounds
They tear him apart
Semele
lover of jupiter, mother of Bacchus
Juno tricks her into asking Jupiter to make love to her with his full power as a god
Juno asks Jupiter to grant her an unspecified request and he promises to follow through
Jupiter can’t go back on his words and makes love to her with all his power (Cause dick to bomb)
she dies pregnant with Bacchus and Jupiter brings Bacchus to full term in his thigh
Teiresias
Jove and Juno fight over who has more pleasure in sex (man or woman)
They ask him since he is transsexual
He takes Jove’s side (women have more pleasure)
Juno doesn’t like the decision so she blinds him.
Jove gives him the power of foresight
Narcissus & Echo
Narcissus is the son of the nymph Liriope.
When he is 16 he is loved by everyone but he never wants anything to do with anyone
Echo used to act as the “Wing-nymph” (like wing woman) for the other nymphs who wanted to sleep with Jove
She distracted Juno while the nymph would have a chance to run away
Juno figured it out and took away her ability to speak except to echo the last word other people say
Narcissus is wandering the woods and gets separated from his friends and called out
Echo answered back but he rejected her and she like decomposes and only her voice is left
Pentheus & Bacchus
Pentheus thinks that Baccus is ruling Thebes badly and dislikes him
Pentheus sends out his slaves to capture Acoetes, Bacchus’ companion
They capture him and he tells a tale of when he was out sailing and took aboard a young boy who they thought was a god
(It was Bacchus)
Pentheus gets mad that the story was a wate of time and orders Acoetes to be chained up
Women worshipping Bacchus rip Pentheus’ body apart
Arethusa
The goddess of a spring in Sicily
Originally she was a nymph living in Achaes
After she went hunting one day, the god Alpheus fell in love with her
She prayed to Diana to protect her so Diana turned her into a mist
Alpheus turned himself into a river so Diana split the earth where she eventually ended up in Ortygia and became a fountain
Pyramus & Thisbe
They fall in love but their marriage is forbidden by their parents so they kept their love a secret
They decided to sneak out and meet in the tomb of Ninus
She arrives first and sees a lioness and drops her cloak
The lioness mangles the cloak so when he arives he thinks the lion ate her and he comitts suicide
She comes back and sees him dying and kills herself
Salmacis & Hermaphroditus
He was the son of Aphrodite and Hermes
When he turned 15 he left and met her (a nymph) and rejected her
She jumped onto him and prayed to be joined to him
They gods turned him into an androgynous being
Perseus & Andromeda
He sees her (daughter of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia) chained to a rock on the beach
She is being offered
as a sacrifice to Poseidon so that he doesn’t send a monster to destroy the land
He kills the moster and marries her even though she was already engaged to Phineus
There is a fight at the wedding but eventually he turns Phineus into stone by using Medusa’s head
Ceres & Proserpina
Mother and daughter.
Pluto falls in love with the daughter and takes her to the underworld where they are married
She tries to leave the underworld but she ate 6 seeds form a pomegranate in the underworld
She can be with her mother for half the year (spring and summer) and in the underworld for the other half (fall and winter)
Arethusa
The goddess of a spring in Sicily
Originally she was a nymph living in Achaes
After she went hunting one day, the god Alpheus fell in love with her
She prayed to Diana to protect her so Diana turned her into a mist
Alpheus turned himself into a river so Diana split the earth where she eventually ended up in Ortygia and became a fountain
Arachne
She is from the land of Lydia and is famous for her knitting
She boasts that she could beat Minerva in a weaving contest which pisses Minerva off
Minerva goes to her house disguised as an old telling her to honor the goddess
She refuses so she challenges her to a weaving contest
She wins and Minerva tears her work to shreds so she hangs herself
Minerva turns her into a spider
Niobe
A wealthy woman from Thebes and the mother of 14 children
She boasts that she is greater than the goddess Latona (the mother of Apollo and Diana)
Latona sends her kids to kill her 7 sons
Her husband kills himself and she remains almost indifferent
Latona killer her 7 daughters then turned her into stone and sent her off to a mountain
Latona
A goddess
She is offended by Niobe who refuses to worship her and apollo and diana (her children)
She is outraged her and her children kill Niobe’s children; seven sons and seven daughters
the people now fear her
Tereus, Procne & Philomela
Athens was under attack by barbarians but Tereus (of thrace) came and helps lead Athens to victory.
The king of Athens gave his daughter (Procne) to Tereus to marry as a gift.
After a few years of marriage, Procne asks her husband to bring her sister Philomela because she misses her.
Tereus goes to find her sister and rapes her and cuts off her tongue and imprisons her
He goes and tells Procne her sister died on the journey
Philomela weaves a messaage describing what happened to her and gets a servant to deliver the message to Procne
She saves Philomela and sneaks her into the kingdom
They kill Itys (Tereus and Procne’s son) and serve him to Tereus during the feast
They are all turned into birds