LCT13: Artemis

Question 1

Artemis is sister of who and daughter of who?

Answer 1

twin sister to Apollo, daughter of Leto and Zeus

Question 2

Associated with…

Answer 2

wild and untamed

• forests, uncultivated meadows, mountains, etc.
• wild animals
• hunting = bow (like her brother)

Question 3

Attributes of Artemis

Answer 3

• protector of the young
• a virgin goddess (attendants are virgins too)
• a goddess of the moon
• beautiful but severe and quick-tempered (like Apollo)

Question 4

Why does Niobe mock Leto?

Answer 4

because she only had two children (instead of 14)

Question 5

What does Artemis and Apollo do?

Answer 5

attack, spare one daughter

Question 6

What does Niobe turn into? What do her tears represent?

Answer 6

turns into stone - tears = flowing spring on Mt. Sipylus

Question 7

Who is Actaion?

Answer 7

a hunter and raised by Cheiron the Centaur

Question 8

Who is Cheiron?

Answer 8

wise, kind train of the hero’s

Question 9

At midday Actaion calls a halt to the hunt because…

Answer 9

he comes upon Artemis bathing

Question 10

In the situation with Action with Artemis, he is…

Answer 10

innocent victim … OR … wants to rape Artemis

Question 11

What does Artemis turn Actaion into? What happens after that?

Answer 11

a deer –> own pack of hunting dogs chase after him and maul and devour him

Question 12

What happened to Atalante?

Answer 12

abandoned by parents… nursed by a bear the rescued and raised by hunters

Question 13

Attributes of Atalante

Answer 13

beautiful, swift and fearsome… emulates Artemis (virgin/shuns men, dwells in a cave)

Question 14

Alternate tradition of Atalante

Answer 14

not abandoned by her parents

Question 15

What does her father do?

Answer 15

arranges a competition for his daughters hand in marriage

Question 16

What does the competition consist of?

Answer 16

must outrun an armed Atalante - caught = killed (also got headstart)

Question 17

What does Aphrodite give Hippomenes?

Answer 17

golden apples

Question 18

What does Hippomenes do?

Answer 18

outruns Atalante –> drops golden apples behind him, Atalante can’t resist picking them up

Question 19

Oineus and Althaia have a son named…

Answer 19

Meleagros

Question 20

Who visits Meleagros parents? What do they say? What does Althaia do?

Answer 20

The Fates - say that Meleagros will die when a particular log is burned up, Althaia hides that log in a chest

Question 21

What does Oineus forget to do one year?

Answer 21

include Artemis in a harvest sacrifice

Question 22

What does Artemis do?

Answer 22

sends a huge boar to devastate the countryside around Calydon

Question 23

Who does Meleagros fall in love with?

Answer 23

Atalante

Question 24

On the hunt, who strikes the first blow and who strikes the killing blow?

Answer 24

First blow - Atalante

Killing blow - Meleagros

Question 25

What does Meleagros do with the dead boar? Who is upset? How does Meleagros respond?

Answer 25

gives it to Atalante as a gift - family dispute as Meleagros uncles upset at gift to Atalante - responds by killing uncles

Question 26

Who is bitter about the deaths of his uncles? What does she do?

Answer 26

His mother - Althaia (her brothers were killed) .... puts the log into the fire = death of meleagros