Week 11

Question 1

saga or legend

Answer 1

focuses on one or more heroes

Question 2

propp

Answer 2

reocurring motifs

Question 3

argos

Answer 3

ecompasses the argolid area, corinth, thebes, contact with mediterranean and egypt

Question 4

heraeum

Answer 4

hill where hera’s sanctuary stood, religious center of the area.

Question 5

hera and poseidon contest

Answer 5

phoroneus established argos, decided hera over poseidon. Poseidon dried up argive rivers including phoroneus father, inachus

Question 6

great grandfather of perseus and his sons

Answer 6

abas, acrisius (king of argos) and proteus (tiryns)

Question 7

perseus birth

Answer 7

acrisius daughter danae, oracle said her son would kill acrisius. She was shut up in a brozen chamber but zeus came to her in a shower of gold. Perseus was hidden until he was 4, acrisius put them in a chest to float out to sea

Question 8

perseus and danae rescued by

Answer 8

fisherman dictys (net), on island of seriphos

Question 9

polydectes

Answer 9

brother of dictys, king of seriphos, in love with danae

Question 10

persesus at the banquet

Answer 10

polydectes has a banquet, where everyman has to give him a horse (attempt to get perseus to give him danae), perseus boasts he could give him a gorgon head

Question 11

athena’s assistance

Answer 11

perseus’s guide, tells him where graeae

Question 12

perseus and the graeae

Answer 12

perseus gets their eye and tooth, gives back when they tell him where to find the nymphs, they give him cap of invisbility, winged sandals, and kibisis (wallet)

Question 13

hermes’s assistance

Answer 13

gives a scimitar

Question 14

perseus and medusa

Answer 14

gorgons were asleep, guided by athena, looks only at gorgon reflection in the shield, beheads medusa (only medusa was mortal) and puts her head in kibisis, flies away with cap of invisibility

Question 15

from medusa’s body

Answer 15

chrysaor (he of the golden sword) and pegasus, father was poseidon

Question 16

athena/ medusa and the flute

Answer 16

athena invented the flute in imitation of the gorgons lament for medusa’s death.

Question 17

perseus returns to seriphos

Question 18

andromeda parents

Answer 18

king cerephus (ethiopia) and cassiepea, she boasted andromeda more beautiful than the nereids, poseidon flooded and sent sea monster

Question 19

andromeda rescue

Answer 19

oracle told cepheus andromeda had to be offered to monster, perseus killed with scimitar and married her

Question 20

perseus and andromeda son

Answer 20

perses, after he was born they returned to seriphos and left him as heir to cepheus’s kingdom

Question 21

phineus

Answer 21

andromeda’s previously bethrothed, perseus kills with gorgon head

Question 22

what does gorgon blood create

Answer 22

poisonous snakes of libyan desert
atlas into mountain range (when he doesn’t show hospitality)
creation of coral

Question 23

death of acrisius

Answer 23

acrisius hears that perseus is alive, goes to larissa in thessaly. perseus competes in games in larissa and throws a disc that accidentaly kills acrisisus. perseus returns to tiryns insteado of argos and exchanges kingdoms with megapenthes (proteus son) cause he feels bad and eventually founds mycenae

Question 24

persesus myth format

Answer 24

closest of all legends to a folktale, danae follows the “girl tragedy”

Question 25

other legends of argos

Answer 25

reflects important and intimate relationship with the argive plains and egypt (inachus family)

Question 26

descendants of io

Answer 26

kingdoms of crete, thebes, phoencia

Question 27

daughters of danaus myth

Answer 27

twins aegyptus and danaus (great grandsons of io) argued over kingdom, danaus left with his 50 daughters (danaids) to become king of argos. (subjects = danai) aegyptus had 50 sons, who pursued danaids to marry. Danaus gave daughters daggers to kill husbands, all did except for hypernmestra, who spared lynceus. 49 punished in the underworld. hypernmestra grandmother of proteus and acrisus.

Question 28

electryon death

Answer 28

was king of mycenae, accidentally killed by amphitryon who is sentenced to exile in thebes and takes electryons daughter alchemena

Question 29

alchemena and amphitryon

Answer 29

alchemena will not lie with amphitryon until he avenges her brothers by attacking the teleboans, he does but zeus disguises himself and extends the night 3x, when amphirtryon returns she only believes him because of tiresias. alchemena has twins heracles and iphicles

Question 30

hera's wrath and zeus's trickery

Answer 30

zeus boasts about heracles, so hera slows heracles birth and speeds up eurystheus (son of sthenelus) and sent snakes to heracles which he killed

Question 31

heracles music teacher

Answer 31

linus keeps complaining about how bad heracles is at the lyre, heracles bashes him in the head with it, charged with murder, acquitted with self defense

Question 32

exploits in thebes

Answer 32

freed the thebans and led the army into battle, king creon gave him daughter megara as wife in gratitude

Question 33

megara and heracles

Answer 33

he goes mad and kills megara and 3 kids

Question 34

heracles and the oracle

Answer 34

goes to oracle at delphi, she tells him to serve eurystheus for 12 years at tiryns, then he would become immortal

Question 35

12 labours overview

Answer 35

first 6 are in the greek peleponese, last 6 in the world, goes from local hero to wordly hero

Question 36

peloponnesian labours

Answer 36

1. nemean lion 2. lernaean hydra 3. cerynean hind 4. erymanthian boar 5. augean stables 6. stymphalian birds

Question 37

1. nemean lion (important image)

Answer 37

exaggerate, rampaging in nemea, instructed to slay lion and bring back skin, stuns with his club and strangles with bare hands, always wears skin after this

Question 38

5. auguean stables

Answer 38

important because humiliating, diverts water into stables to clean feces

Question 39

non-peloponnesian labours (overcoming death)

Answer 39

7. cretan bull 8. mares of diomedes (WRESTLES DEATH) 9. girdle of hippolyta 10. cattle of geryon 11. apples of hesperides 12. cerebus

Question 40

11. apples of the hesperides

Answer 40

grew on magical tree guarder by hesperides (3 daughters of night, nymphs) that was a wedding gift to hera, she plants at the foot of mt atlas, only she knows where it is. Sends the serpent ladon to help guard the apples. Heracles looks for atlas and switches to hold up the sky so atlas gets the apple, heracles tricks atlas into switching back, gives apples to eurthyseus who gives them to athena to return to the garden

Question 41

parega

Answer 41

side quests

Question 42

city of heracles birth

Answer 42

thebes

Question 43

althoi

Answer 43

contests undertaken for a prize (immortality)

Question 44

heracles helpers

Answer 44

athena and nephew iolaus

Question 45

8. mares of diomedes parega

Answer 45

king admetus is sad about death of his wife alcestis, heracles wrestles with thanatos (death) to get her back

Question 46

10. cattle of geryon parega

Answer 46

pillars of hercules, kills fire god cacus who steals cattle

Question 47

11. nereus

Answer 47

sea god nereus tells him where to find garden after turns himself into a bunch of different shapes but heracles does not let him go

Question 48

11. apples of herperides parega

Answer 48

kills king busiris of egypts who sacrificed strangers to zeus kills giant antaeus (son of gaia and poseidon, drew strength from earth) by holding him up and crushing him finds prometheus and releases him