Week 12

Question 1

Ovid “heroides”

Answer 1

• written between 25 to 16th bc
• written in the form of letters to well known heroes of myths from their badly treated wives and lovers
• very unique

Question 2

Ariadne to theseus

Answer 2

• written by ovid in heroides
• ariadne was trapped on the island and theseus had left her
• she wishes that he won’t forget about her

Question 3

Euridipes

Answer 3

• one of the three greatest 5th century bc Athenian tragic playwrights
• he was the latest and least traditional of them
• his play medea was preformed at the city dionysia in 431 bc

Question 4

Euridipes medea

Answer 4

• play that showed medea in a good light despite the words of Jason
• condemned medea as a foreign, evil, unnatural witch or monster
• Basically Jason is killed but she was helped by the gods to escaped

Question 5

Atalanta

Answer 5

• follower of Artemis
• raised by a she-bear after being left to die (daddy wanted a boy) and became a great huntress
• a female hero and one of the argonauts according to pseudo apollodorus (not apollonius rhodius)
• beats peleus at wrestling in the funeral games at Iolcus (after pelias died)
• took part of the Calydonian boar hunt

Question 6

Thr calydonian boar hunt

Answer 6

• another heroic quest that all the heroes of the generation take part in
• meleager, prince of Caledonm summons the Greek heroes to kill a vicious boar
• they kill the boar
• meleager wanted to give the boar hide to atalanta but the others object
• meleager kills his uncles
• mother kills him
• won’t settle down until her husband beats her in a footrace