Flashcards in LCT28: Myths of Mycenae (Act2) Deck (21)
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What does King Pelops do?
curses his family
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Who are Pelops wife and children
Hippodamia - Atreus, Thyestes, and bastard son Chrysippus
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Who did Hippodamia hate? What happened to that person?
bastard son Chrysippus - killed by Atreus and Thyestes fir mother
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What does Pelops do?
curses them and banishes them to Mycenae
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What are they suppose to do in Mycenae?
take over and establish themselves as kings/rulers
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Who are Atreus' two sons?
Agamemnon and Menelaus
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What does Thyestes do?
seduces Atreus' wife Aerobe and has a daughter named Pelopia and two sons
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What does Atreus do in response to Thyestes?
- sends Pelopia away to grow up elsewhere
- keeps sons as hostage
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Years later what does Atreus do? How does Thyestes react?
throws reconciliation banquet for Thyestes - serves Thyestes the flesh of his two sons - Thyestes flees Mycenae devastated
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What does oracle say about Thyestes?
if he fathers a son by Pelopia (his daughter) that son will avenge him
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What does Thyestes do in response to oracle?
many years later and disguised Thyestes rapes his daughter Pelopia
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How does Pelopia respond to Thyestes?
steals his sword, conceive son Aegisthus
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Who does Atreus find?
Pelopia - do not recognize each other
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Who is born from Pelopia?
Aegisthus - Thyestes son but raised as Atreus' son
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What does Pelopia give Aegisthus?
the sword of Thyestes
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What happens to Thyestes?
sons of Atreus - Agamemnon and Menelaus - capture Thyestes and bring him to Mycenae
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What does Atreus order Aegisthus to do?
kill Thyestes
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What does Thyestes do?
recognizes the sword and thus Aegisthus as his son - tells him he needs to see his mother
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What does Pelopia and Thyestes do?
kills herself with sword - Thyestes sends Aegisthus to kill Atreus
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What does Aegisthus do?
shows bloody sword to Atreus and then kills Atreus as he is thanking the gods
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