Exam 3 Flashcards

Question

Epigoni

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In Greek mythology, Epigoni are the sons of the Argive heroes who had fought and been killed in the first Theban war, the subject of the Thebaid, in which Polynices and six allies (the Seven Against Thebes) attacked Thebes because Polynices' brother, Eteocles, refused to give up the throne as promised. The second Theban war, also called the war of the Epigoni, occurred ten years later, when the Epigoni, wishing to avenge the death of their fathers, attacked Thebes.

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the widest plain in Greece best known as the birthplace of Achilles later it was backward socially but famed for its horses and horse-breeders

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was a Bronze age city | traces of 2 Mycenaean palaces have been found there

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most important literary version of the voyage of Argonauts | whose account we generally follow

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his parents spread a rumor that he was stillborn to protect him from his uncle who wanted supreme power sent him to Chiron, the wise centaur to be raised he named him Jason Married Medea, daughter or Aeetes, who helped him obtain the golden fleece

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son of Athamas Ino (Athamas' second wife) tricked Athamas into almost killing Phrixus but he was saved by a golden ram apprearing right before Athamas stabbed him the golden ram carried both him and his sister Helle away

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son of Athamas Ino (Athamas' second wife) tricked Athamas into almost killing Phrixus but he was saved by a golden ram apprearing right before Athamas stabbed him the golden ram carried both him and his sister Helle away married one of Aeetes' daughter

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Athamas's daughter was carried away by the golden ram that appreared right before Athamas stabbed Phrixus (her brother) with Phrixus but she lost her grip on the ram and fell to her death in a spot that's still called Hellespont

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the spot where Helle fell to her death (Athamas' daughter)

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this is where the golden ram carrying Phrixus landed | here the tyrant Aeetes rules

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tyrant rules Colchis, where Phrixus's golden ram landed Phrixus sacrificed the ram to him and Aeetes gave one of his daughters to him to marry had the golden fleece Medea's father

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``` was arrogant and intolerant aspired to supreme power over Thessaly even drove out his own brother fathered several daughters imprisoned his half brother (Aeson) ``` sent Jason on the quest for the golden fleece because it was said that Jason would bring about his downfall

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the wise centaur to whom Aeson and his wife sent their son to to protect him from Aeson's half brother Pelias who was a tyrant and wanted supreme power Chiron named him Jason, taught him the arts of civilized life and raised him to manhood

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Jason had Argo construct the largest ship ever made, could hold 50 men was called Argo after its creator the ship Jason used to go on his adventure

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sons of Boreas are the wind brothers accompanied Jason on his adventure on the Argo (ship)

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was a king in a terrible plight when Jason and his fellow heroes (the Argonauts) got to his land he had abused the gift of prophecy recieved from Apollo so Zeus gave him the burden of a long and painful old age, took his sight from him and denied him enjoyment thorough Harpies who would take his food from his fingers and mouth Phineus agreed to give Jason the exact information for his course if he hot rid of the Harpies for him, which they did

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"clashing rocks" massive rumbling rocks which lay in impenetrable mist, smashed tigether and destroyed everything between them before getting through, the Agronauts were advised by Phineus to release a dove. if it got through the rocks, they could too but if it died they should abandon their quest but the dove lived, and the Argonauts were able to get through

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sorceress was part of Hera's complicated plan to destroy Pelias persuaded Aphrodite to make Medea fall in love with Jason, so Medea then helped Jason get the golden fleece from her father Aeetes in exchange for Jason marrying her, to which he agreed also murdered her brother Apsyrtus who was persuing the Argonauts when they were trying to get away

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Medea's brother | murdered by her when he was pursuing the Argonauts on his father (Aeetes') orders, in an effort to slow Aeetes down

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bronze giant ran around the island of Crete looking for strangers to attack Medea killed him to help Jason and the Argonauts

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the district north of the entrance to the gulf of Corinth | captial was Calydon

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captial of Aetolia

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son of the king in the days of Heracles when he was born, the fates appeared 2 of them blessed him, the third pointed to a log burning in the fireplace and said that he would die when it was consumed with fire his mother extinguished the log and hid it years laters when he had grown up, a hunting party was hunting a wild boar sent by Artemis because Meleager's father had offended her Meleager struck the killing blow to the boar, but with the help of Atalanta, a woman but famous female athlete Meleager lusted after her so he gave her the pelt, but his uncles didn't want a woman having it so they took it. in the scuffle that ensued, the uncles died Meleager's mother, in a fit of rage toward her son, took the log she had hidden and burned it, thus killing him

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famous female athlete her father had wanted boys so had exposed her at birth but a he-bear found her and suckled her and hunters raised her like Artemis, she only cared for hunting she joined the boar hunt, and though many objected to the presence of a woman, Meleager was attracted to her so he allowed her to partake in it she ended up helping him kill the boar

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Tantalus invited the gods to a banquet then chopped up his son Pelops and served his pieves in a stew to test their omniscience all the gods recognized the dish at once as human flesh and rejected it except demeter (preoccupied with the dissapearence of Persephone, her daughter) ate his shoulder accidently won the unwinnable contest set by Oenomaus for his daughter's (Hippodamia's) hand

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ruled as king over Pisa was in love with his own beautiful daughter Hippodamia, who refused sexual relations with him, but he prevented her from marrying anyone else by offering her as a prize in an unwinnable contest

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King Oenomaus' charioteer, Pelops bribed him bu promising him the first night in bed with Hippodamia if he helped him win the race later after Pelops won the contest and Myrtilus tried to bed Hippodamia, Pelops killed him by throwing hims from a towering crag into the sea, he cursed Pelops and all his line as he fell

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king Oenomaus' daughter whom he was in love with but she refused to have sexual relations with him so he prevented her from marrying by offering her hand in an unwinnable contest

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father of Aegisthus (through his own daughter) Atreus' brother, with whom he competed with for the Mycenaean throne was having an affair with Atreus's wife, for which Atreus later punishes him by feeding him his sons after Atreus had become king an oracle told him that the way for Thyestes to get back at Atreus for that was by having a son with his daughter -whom he later accidentally rapes

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Thyestes' son through his own daughter | stabs and kills Atreus after he finds out that Thyestes was his actual father

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brother of Thyestes with whom he competed for the Mycenaean throne and won father or Menelaus and Agamemnon fed Thyestes his sons in revenge for him having an affair with his wife later also tries to have him killed

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son of Atreus who with his brother Agamemnon drags Thyestes (their uncle) back to their father Atreus to be killed

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son of Atreus who with his brother Menelaus drags Thyestes (their uncle) back to their father Atreus to be killed (for sleeping woth Atreus' wife)

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king of sparta was sympathetic to Agamemnon and Menelaus' cause after they get driven away by Thyestes raised an army for them, allowing them to drive Thyestes from the land Agamemnon then becoms king

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wife of Tyndareus (who was sympathetic to Amamemnon and Menelaus) was very beautiful, so Zeus appeared to her in the form of a swan and had his way with her Tyndareus also had intercourse with her that same night and she gave birth to 4 children: Polydeuces, Helen, fathered by Zeus were semidivine and Castor and Clytemnestra fathered by Tyndareus who were mortal

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were inseperable when Castor was killed in a cattle raid, the grieving Polydeuces gave up half his immortality to Castor, On alternate days the brothers lived in Hades, and then on Olympus

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daughter of Leda by Zeus (who appeared to her as a swan) | was married to Agamemnon, and later murdered him

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an oath that they would protect and defend whichever Suitor of Helen was chosen. No hero of note would break such an oath, and even if someone did, then they would have to face the force of the other Suitors who were bound to protect Helen’s husband.

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daughter of Leda and Zeus was the most beautiful woman in the world the richest and best born young men from all of greece gathered for her hand, prompting Tyndareus to ask them all to swear the "oath of Tyndareus"

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he and his brother Telamon envied their half-brother Phocus for his superior athletic ability that they murdered him for their crimes they were exiled by their father Zeus arranged for him to marry Thetis Peleus found Thetis and pinned her down until she agreed to marry him and Hera, thankful that Thetis didn't sleep with Zeus arranged for a very splendid wedding for them fathered Achilles

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son of Telamon, he and his brother Peleus murdered their half-brother Phocus for his superior athletic ability and were exiled Ajax was a suitor of Helen and one of the greatest heroes of the Trojan war

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she bore Hector, destined to be the greatest fighterif the Trojans when she became pregnant a seer said the child would cause the city's destruction her husband (Priam) ordered the child exposed on Mount Ida but a shephard found him and raised him as Paris When the child grew up he took down a band of robbers by himself Hermes asked him which goddess was the fairest: Hera, Athena or Aphrodite he chose Aphrodite as she promised him the most beautiful woman in the world- Helen

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where all the old suitors of Helen gathered after the Oath of Tyndareus was invoked after Paris stole Helen

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knew that Odysseus was faking being mad in order to not have to fight in the trojan war he placed Odysseus' son in front of the blade of the plow Odysseus was following to prove he wasn't mad Odysseus got back at him by framing him for betraying the greeks he was stoned to death

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prophet of the greek exhibition for the trojan war | declared that the greeks would never take Troy without the help of Achilles

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a snake bit him and the wound festered and smelled so much that the other warriors left him behind on an island he survived only by the bow that he recieved from heracles as a reward for lighting his pyre with which he shot small game

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her father came to the Greek camp to ransom his daughter from Agamemnon who had received her as booty from the war though he was urged to give her up, Agamemnon wouldn't so Chryseis' father asked Apollo for help and Apollo did, and so the greeks fought the war for nine years without victory and it was announced that the only way they would win was if she was returned

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Achilles prize whom Agamemnon was given to him in exchange for Agamemnon giving up Chryseis (his own war booty)

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wife of Hector During the Trojan War, after Hector was killed by Achilles and the city taken by the Greeks, the Greek killed Astyanax, her son by Hector, by throwing him from the city walls. This act was carried out by Neoptolemus who then took Andromache as a concubine

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Hector and Andromache's son | was thrown from the city walls after Achilles killed Hector and the city was taken

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Achilles' son, conceived when Achilles was still in the women's quarters, and had to join the army because as the war dragged on, the greatest heroes on both sides were dead carried Polyxena, youngest daughter of Priam to the tomb of his father Achilles and cut her throat over it, the blood pouring into it to quench the dead warrior's thirst

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a priest of Poseidon, suspected that the trojan horse was a trick and held warriors, and tried to destroy it but 2 serpents arose from the sea and strangled him and his 2 sons

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youngest daughter of Priam Neoptolemus carried her to the tomb of his father Achilles and cut her throat over it, the blood pouring into it to quench the dead warrior's thirst

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a genre of ancient epic that told of the returns of heroes from Troy and all that happened to them these were called Nostoi or "homecomings"

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Agamemnon's return to Argos, his murder by Clytemnestra, and Orestes' revenge are known to us through Aeschylus' dramatic trilogy called the Oresteia

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Agamemnon's son was taken as a child to be raised near Delphi ordered by the delphic oracle he returned to avenge the murder of his father Clytemnestra

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Orestes' sister | plots to kill her mother Clytemnestra with her brother for murdering their father

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the persecuting spirits of murdered kin | they surrounded Orestes when he killed his mother and drove him mad

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Athena appeases the furies by assigning them permanent place in Athens as beneficent spirits, no longer malignant hence their new name the Eumenides, "the kindly ones"

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violent winds blew the greeks (after the trojan war) out of the everyday world and into the mythical land of the lotus eaters the local inhabitants consume a drug that makes them forgetful of their home and their purpose

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a cyclops Odysseus lands on the island of the Cyclops during his journey home from the Trojan War and, together with some of his men, enters a cave filled with provisions. When the giant Polyphemus returns home with his flocks, he blocks the entrance with a great stone and, scoffing at the usual custom of hospitality, eats two of the men. Next morning, the giant kills and eats two more and leaves the cave to graze his sheep.\After the giant returns in the evening and eats two more of the men, Odysseus offers Polyphemus some strong and undiluted wine given to him earlier on his journey. Drunk and unwary, the giant asks Odysseus his name, promising him a guest-gift if he answers. Odysseus tells him "nobody"[2] and Polyphemus promises to eat this "Nobody" last of all. With that, he falls into a drunken sleep. Odysseus had meanwhile hardened a wooden stake in the fire and now drives it into Polyphemus' eye. When Polyphemus shouts for help from his fellow giants, saying that "Nobody" has hurt him, they think Polyphemus is being afflicted by divine power and recommend prayer as the answer. In the morning, the blind Cyclops lets the sheep out to graze, feeling their backs to ensure that the men are not escaping. However, Odysseus and his men have tied themselves to the undersides of the animals and so get away. As he sails off with his men, Odysseus boastfully reveals his real name, an act of hubris that was to cause problems for him later.

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the wind king gave Odysseus a special gift in accordance with xenia: a bag containing fierce winds, that they were not supposed to open after the Greeks leave his island, and Odysseus falls asleep, his men open the bag in greed thinking it contained gold, and a storm is unleashed on them, blowing them back to the Island of Aeolus

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the greeks arrived on this island they were cannibals the king's daughter meets them and guides them to the king who eats one of them other Laestrygonians harpoon the wiggling men and eat them alive all the ships are destroyed except for Odysseus' and his lucky crew who cleverly moored their vessel outside the entrance of to the harbor

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Odysseus' crew reaches this island and half his men go to investigate and discover a sorceress Circe who sings to them, gives them a potion and turns them into pigs Odysseus who had stayed on his ship goes alone to take care of her on his way Hermes apprears to him and gives him a magic herb that makes him resistant to Circe's potion she asks him if he is Odysseus as a prophecy foretold that a man would one day defy her magic she invites him to her bed, but first he makes her sware not to harm him she restores his men, and they spend a year on the island feasting before deciding to return home

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half women half birds whose song no man can resist Circe warned him of them so he has his men stop up their ears with wax and orders them to bind him to the mast, so that when he hears them, and cries out they will know its the sirens and bind him to the mast tighter until they pass safely

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an enormous whirlpool that sucks down and spits up torrents of water 3 times a day

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a 12ft monster, misshapen with 6 long necks each with its own head she holds her heads out of caves and snatches up sailors Odysseus' crew passes by her and she eats some of them

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Odysseus lives with her for 7 years Calypso is a beautiful nymph who loves him and offers him eternal life if he marries her, but since he longs for home and his wife, he refuses Athena, his protectress asks Zeus to release Odysseus from his suffering at the hands of Poseidon (for blinding his son) and Zeus consents

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island ofPhaeacians where Odysseus drifts ashore Posiedon sees him there and still angry at him for blinding Polyphemus his son, sends a great storm his way his raft breaks and throws Odysseus into the sea

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adolescent daughter of the Phaeacian king who sees Odysseus when doing her laundry by the shore, she and her maids bathe him and cloth him and her father recieves Odysseus at court where he tells his stories

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Odysseus' only son | in danger of his mother's suitors who wanted to marry her behind Odysseus' back

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Odysseus' faithful dog | was very old when Odysseus returned from war and dropped dead from excitment at Odysseus's return

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the suitors led by Antinous revile the beggar that is Odysseus in disguise they complain how Penelope (Odysseus' wife) promised to marry one of them but now refuses

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an old nurse who sucled Odysseus when he was an infant, was told by Penelope to wash the begger (Odysseus) and she recognizes him

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roman deities | spirits that can inhabit almost any object or serve almost any function, petty or grand

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one of the best known numina "gate" a numen of bridges, hence going forth and returning was represented as a man with 2 faces, one looking forwards, the other back

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originally numen of the sky identical to Zeus was worshipped in many manifestations became the incarnation of the striking power of the Roman state

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numen who presided over women as members of family equated with Hera had close ties to the moon

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numen of wheat | equated with Demeter

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the Roman Artemis in origin, was the spirit of the wood, as the goddess of the hunt, the moon, and nature being associated with wild animals and woodland,

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Hermes equivalent | no Italian heritage

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identified with Haphaestus | god of volcanic and other forms of destructive fire

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numen of water (although not specificallythe sea until identified with Posiedon

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assimilated with greek Ares | closely associated with the wolf, he may have once protected flocks or been a primordial god of war

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numen of handicrafts | associated with greek Athena

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"kindly one" | numne of unreasoning terror of the lonely forest and so identified with Pan

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was once numen of freshwater, especially springs since water is essential for growth of tplants etc Venus under greek influence also took animal fertility and human fertility under her protection

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to hercules belongs the earliest form of foreign cult at Rome the form of his name reflects westrn pronunciation

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protective deity began as protective ghosts of fertile fields, then came to protect all kinds of places such as homes, streets, cities were worshiped in small shrines at crossroads where the boundries of 4 farms came together fixed at a specific location, not portable

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imilar to Lares protected household things were portable, while Lares were not

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corresponds to Greek Hestia protectress of hearth and home 6 vestal virgis served her, each chosen from the great families served for 30 years starting at the age of 7 could marry afterwards, but few did

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refers to the extraordinary devotion one shows first to the pater-familias, then by extension to the abstraction of the state itself and its gods

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queen of Carthage fell in love with Aeneas (founder of Roman race) but he abandoned her, and she kills herself

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son of Aeneas (founder of Roman race) was claimed as ancestor by the Julian clan to which Julius Ceaser and Augustus belonged he left Lavininium (founded by his father) and founded the town Alba Longa

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descendants of Aeneas born in Alba Longa (founded by Aeneas' son Iulus) founded the city of Rome grew up and became great hunters, first of animals and then of bandits

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king of Rutulians was betrothed to Lavinia but a prophecy directed that she be given to a foreigner instead so her father promises her to Aeneas Aeneas accepts and war errupts, where in the end Aeneas kills him

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she was the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa, and descended from Aeneas. Numitor's younger brother Amulius seized the throne and killed Numitor's son, then forced Rhea Silvia to become a Vestal Virgin, a priestess of the goddess Vesta. As Vestal Virgins were sworn to celibacy for a period of thirty years, this would ensure the line of Numitor had no heirs. However, Rhea Silvia conceived and gave birth to the twins Romulus and Remus. She claimed that the god Mars was the father of the children. Livy says that she was raped by an unknown man, but "declared Mars to be the father of her illegitimate offspring, When Amulius learned of the birth he imprisoned Rhea Silvia and ordered a servant to kill the twins. But the servant showed mercy and set them adrift on the river Tiber, which, overflowing, left the infants in a pool by the bank. There, a she-wolf (lupa), who had just lost her own cubs, suckled them

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during a festival large crowds of people flocked to Rome from neighboring latin towns including a people called the Sabines who lived in the hills as soon as the festival began the Romans rushed into the crowd and seized the young Sabine women for the Romans living in Rome and their communities to grow

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the king of Sabines made war on the romans for stealing their women and gained entry by bribing Tarpeia, daughter of a Roman comander (or because she fell in love with Titus Tatius (King of the Sabines) and then was murdered by the Sabiens upon entering Rome

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"the process of becoming a god" the spirit of every ruler after Ceaser and Agustus until Constantine's adoption of Christanity in AD 337, was elevated to godhood Imperial apotheosis apperas at the beginning of a new era of peace for Rome and also at the close of decades of horrendous bloody civil war

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the romans were at war against their parent city of Alba Longa they agreed to decide the dispute by a duel between 3 romans and 3 alban brothers, the Horatii and the Curiatii the fighting began and 2 of the Roman Horatii were killed, and the remaining one ran, but managed to kill his opponents this inspiring lesson in Roman steadfastness was marred when the survivng Horiatus returned home, saw his sister weeping for a Curiatii she was betrohed to and killed her he was tried for murder but aquitted

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one of Servuis Tullius' (king of Rome) daughter Tullia, was as wicked as Clytemnestra began a passionate love affair with her brother inlaw, Tarquin the proud, the last king of Rome and asked him to kill her sister (his wife) and his brother (her husband) so they could rule together, which he did

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wife of Tarquin Collatinus, was virtuously spinning wool with her women servants when officers serving in the military, boasting of their woves virtue dropped by unannounced. of them, Sextus Tarquin was astonished by her beauty, virtue and modesty formed a plan to have her he retunred days later alone, was recieved, and at night snuck into her bed and forced her into bed with him in shame, Lucretia told her father and husband, and then killed herself

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"founder of the Roman republic a leader in the conspiracy to overthrow Julius Caesar one day, before the revolution, a serpent appeared in the royal palace Tarquin the proud sent his sons to ask the Delphic oracle what to do, and they took Brutus with his for laughs the oracle said that he who first kisses his mother will succeed to the highest place in Rome and while Tarquin's sons went to kiss their mothers, Brutus recognized that mother meant earth, and kissed the ground, and became one of the first consuls his own sons tried to overthrow him and the democracy, but were found out and executed

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Tarquin the proud, fled Rome and asked another king to restore him, raised an army and went back to Rome they needed to capture a bridge to cross the Tiber Horatius and 2 others occupied the bridge until the rest of the Roman army could chop it down Horatius' companions retreated before the bridge fell, but Horatius, injured, was forced to swim back in full armor- a model of bravery for every good roman

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when the Rtruscans were encampe across the river, one of Rome's bravest men, Gaius Mucius sneaked through enemy lines to kill the king of the Etruscan king Porsenna, but didn't know what the king looked like, and ended up killing his secretary, and was captured he was brought before the king and said that 300 other men had sworn to kill him, and stuck his hand in the fire on an altar until it burned off to show his determination the king was so impressed he sent him back, and have up the attack and sent Mucius home, where he recieved the nickname Scaevola thus the Etruscans were expelled from Rome forever and the republic firmly established

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Gnaeus Marcius had earned the name Coriolanus by conquering a town called Corioli in northwest Latium plebian pressure forced his expulsion from Rome because of his intolerable arrogance and disdain for men of common birth in anger he went to another city and led them against Rome, so offended was he by their rejection of him only when his wife carrying their younger sons and mother ran between the 2 armies into the battlefield and beg him to stop did he relent

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an ex-consul was living and working on his farm when word was recieved that he was chosen as dictator-used in extreme emergencies, to repel an enemy attack he left his plow in the field, led the Romans to victory and then returned to his plow all within 16 days this inspiring tale of dedication to the simple life, constant readiness and selfless devotion to the state gave the name to the society of Cincinnati, a fraternal patriotic organization

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only the senate could grant it was a great victory parade to earn it, at least 5000 of the enemy had to fall in battle, and the legions themselves had to proclaim the general "triumphator" on the field of battle the ceebration included feasting at public expense over several days, contests, captured loot paraded through the streets etc it ended at the temple of Jupiter

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youngest son of Priam and Hecabe | Achilles killed him in an ambush at a spring

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Agamemnon once boasted, while hurling his spear that "even Artemis" could not do so well and to save the expedition, he had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia he sent a herald to bring her to him, pretending that he wanted her to marry Achilles, she was led to a wood, in her wedding dress, and Agamemnon slashed her throat at an alter but at the last seconf Artemis sent down a doe as a substitute and carried Iphigenia away

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Leda was married to Tyndareus, but her beaty was so great that Zeus noticed and came to her as a swan and had his way with her she gave birth to 4 children, one of whom was Polydeuces (and Helen) who were both fathered by Zeus, and Castor and Clytemnestra Castor and Polydeuces were inseperable, and when Castor was killed in a cow raid, he gave up half his imortality to Cadtor and on alternative days the brothers lived in Hades, then on Olympus

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was very unlucky his wife Nephele bore him a boy Phrixus and a gril Helle, but he grew tierd of her and married another- Ino, who bore him 2 sons and was jealous that Phrixus would inherit the throne instead of her own children so she bribed messengers from the Oracle to report that Apollo had said that to restore fertility to the land, Athamas must sacrifice his firstborn, Phrixus just as he was about to, a golden ram appreared, and Phrixus and his sister Helle climed on it and soared away while Athamas watched

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