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Women to be feared Flashcards

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When did Medea meet Jason?

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When he was on his quest to find the golden fleece

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Who was Medeas the daughter of

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Aites, the King of Colchis

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Summarise Jason’s quest for the golden fleece:

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  • Jason was promised the thone of Thessaly by his uncle Pelias if he got the golden fleece
  • Jason built a ship called the Argo, and collected a group of heroes, who became known as the Argonauts
  • The King of Colchis, Aites, didn’t want Jason to get the fleece so he set him a challenge
  • Jason had to yoke a pair of oxen to a plough, use them to plow a field and then sow the field with serpent’s teeth
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What would happen once the field had been sowed with the serpent’s teeth?

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Warriors would spring up from the earth

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What where the oxen?

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Beasts made of metal that breathed fire

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How was Hera involved in Jason’s quest?

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  • Jason was one of Hera’s favourite mortals
  • She knew the quest for the fleece would be difficult so she made Medea fall in love with Jason
  • Hera hoped that Medea would help Jason complete the quest with her magical powers
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Which Greek epic poet narrated the moment Medea fell in love with Jason ?

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Appolonius

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The love Eros inspired in Medea was…

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Overwhelming (she longed for nothing else but to save Jason’s life)

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How did Medea help Jason?

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  • She gave Jason a charm that would make him invulnerable
  • She used a combination of magic, chants and drugs to lull the serpent to sleep
  • In return, Jason promised to take Medea back to Greece with him and marry her
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Why was it a problem that Medea helped Jason?

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She was betraying her father and her country

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What Greek word is Medea’s name derived from?

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Planner, or deviser

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How did Medea slow down the Colchians as they chased after the Argonauts?

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She killed her brother Apsyrtus and cut his body into pieces - every time the Colchians got close she’d throw some of his body into the water, so they’d have to stop to collect is, as the Colchians believed in proper burials

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When Jason and Medea arrived in Thessaly..

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King Pelias was shocked that Jason had gotten the golden fleece and refused to give up the throne

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What was Medea’s plan to get the throne of Thessaly?

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  • She showed Pelias’ two daughters a magic ritual that could reverse the aging process
  • She demonstrated it by cutting up an old ram and boiling it in a cauldron
  • When the girls weren’t looking she replaced it with a lamb, tricking the girls
  • The girls tried it on their father, and killed him in the process
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What happened to Medea and Jason after the death of King Pelias?

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They were driven out of Thessaly by angry townsfolk, and had to seek refuge in the Greek city of Corinth

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Medea’s unpopularity in Corinth:

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  • Jason and Medea settled down in Corinth and had 2 sons
  • Medea had gained an unfavourable status or barbarian foreigner which meant Jason was unable to get on with local rulers
  • Jason left Medea so he could improve his status, and his new bride was Glauce, Princess of Corinth
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Medea’s revenge:

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  • On the day of Glauce’s wedding, Medea sends her a coronet and a wedding dress
  • The dress burns the princess as soon as she puts it on
  • King Creon tries to help his daughter by removing the dress, but instead, it burns him too, and they both die
  • Medea kills her two sons to hurt Jason
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How does Medea predict Jason will die?

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He’ll be hit on the head by a piece of the Argo- a very unheroic death

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Cleopatra’s background?

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  • Born around 69BC and grew up in a royal household
  • Her family was the Ptolemy’s, who had ruled Egypt since the fall of Alexander Great in 323 BC
  • She became ruler in 55BC
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Cleopatra’s sole rule of Egypt:

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  • Believed that a man and woman should rule together, although the woman should be subservient towards the man
  • Her father Ptolemy died when she was 18, making her younger brother the new monarch
  • Cleopatra took advantage of her brother’s young age and took control
  • Her sole rule was short lived as she had to flee Egypt in 45 BC as a result of a coup that removed her from power
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The Roman civil war:

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  • Between Julius Caesar, and Pompey, two military generals, who were former allies
  • After a military defeat, Pompey fled to Alexandria
  • Pharaoh Ptolemy xiii ordered Pomepy’s execution in an attempt to win Caesar’s favour
  • Caesar only wanted Pompey’s defeat, not death so he took control of Alexandria
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Cleopatra and the civil war:

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  • She saw Caesar’s control of Alexandria as an opportunity to reclaim her throne
  • She sought to make her claim to the Egyptian throne to Ptolemy herself
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Plutarch’s description of how Cleoptatra got the throne:

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  • Cleopatra arranged a meeting alone with Caesar
  • Her plan relied on Caesar preferring her over her brother
  • Caesar declared that Cleopatra would jointly rule with her brother
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Caesar and Cleopatra’s relationship:

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She became his lover and they had a child together- Ptolemy Caesar (Caeserion)

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Ptolemy xiii’s death:

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He was killed months after Caeserion’s death, in a failed attempt to take the throne for himself

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Cleopatra’s unpopularity with the Romans:

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  • Immediately unpopular as the Romans didn’t like monarchs, and she insisted on calling herself Queen
  • The people of Rome worried that her influence on Caesar would result in radical changes in Rome
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Cleopatra’s statue in Rome:

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  • Ordered by Julius Caesar
  • Portrayed Cleopatra as the Egyptian Goddess Isis
  • Put in the temple of Venus Genetrix, Goddess of motherhood
  • This was seen as a radical change to Romans as they did not worship rulers
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Caesar’s death:

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  • Happened months after he was appointed permanent dictator
  • Stabbed to death in the senate house
  • Cleopatra returned to Alexandria in fear for her life
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Power vacuum in Rome after the assassination:

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  • 2 men rose to prominence: Mark Antony and Octavian
  • They eventually turned on each other
  • IN 41 BC Antony requested that Cleopatra meet with him in Tarsus so that she would ally with him in any upcoming wars
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Cleopatra’s seduction of Antony:

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  • According to Plutarch, Cleopatra had no intention of allying with him, but just wanted to seduce him like she did with Caesar
  • They married in 36 BC, despite him having been married to a Roman noble woman
  • This caused a scandle as bigamy was not allowed
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Donations of Alexandria:

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  • A public event in 34 BC held by Antony and Cleopatra
  • A celebration of Antony’s victory over the Parthians
  • The fact that it wasn’t held in Rome was seen as proof that Cleopatra had persuaded Antony to move the centre of the Roman Empire to Egypt
  • During celebrations, Antony declared Cleopatra the ruler of Cyprus as well as Egypt
  • He also gave land to her children, which was seen as a betrayal of Rome
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Antony’s civil war with Octavian

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  • IN 33BC, relations between the two completely broke down
  • Octavian convinced the senate to declare war on Cleopatra
  • The decisive battle of this conflict was the battle of Actium, fought off the coast of Greece
  • Octavians forces fought and won against Antony and Cleopatra’s fleets, who then retreated to Alexandria
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Cleopatra’s death

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  • IN 30 BC, Octavian marched on Alexandria and took control of Antony’s remaining forces
  • Antony killed himself
  • Cleopatra killed herself (supposedly by allowing an Egyptian asp or Cobra to bite her)

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