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Athena
Which she and Zeus. Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena#Mythology. Athena’s birth allegorically proclaims her essential character: her divine wisdom drawn from the head of god; the special bond of affection between father and daughter; her championship of heroes and male causes, born as she was from the male, and not from a mother’s womb. A dread goddess of war, she remained a virgin. Http:/ www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195397703/student/materials/chapter8/? THE PARTHENON AND ITS SCULPTURE.
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Jason and the Argonauts
Jason and the Argonauts. When Jason turns 20, he journeys to see Pelias to reclaim his throne. At a nearby river, Hera the Queen of the Gods approaches him disguised as an old woman. While carrying her across the river he loses a sandal and arrives at court wearing only one. Pelias is nervous when he sees Jason missing a sandal, for an oracle has prophesied that a man wearing only one sandal shall usurp his throne. Http:/ www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths four jason.html. Jason and the Skeleton Fight.
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The Mycenaean Saga
The House of Atreus. Tantalus initially held the favor of the gods, but decided to cook his own son Pelops. And feed him to the gods as a test of their omniscience. Most of the gods, as they sat down to dinner with Tantalus, immediately understood what had happened, and, because they knew the nature of the meat they were served, were appalled and did not partake. But Demeter. Who was distracted due to the abduction by Hades. Of her daughter Persephone. Http:/ www.ask.com/wiki/Atreus. Iphigenia accepted h...
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Heracles
Handel - Hercules "Where shall I fly? THE TWELVE LABORS (ATHLOI). The Greek word for the “labors” is athloi. Ie, contests for a prize, which for Heracles was immortality. The first six of the labors were undertaken in the Peloponnese, and the other six were progressively further away from the center of Greece. Associated with them are incidental or subsequent exploits, known as parerga. 8220;incidental deeds” ( parergon. 1 The Nemean Lion. Heracles killed a lion at NEMEA. 2 The Lernaean Hydra. Son of Hel...
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Monstrous Females & Female Monsters
Monstrous Females and Female Monsters. Medusa - Peter Paul Rubens. Perseus was then able to use Medusa's head as a weapon during other battles (which included rescuing Andromeda), but he eventually returned it to Athena, who then placed it at the center of her Aegis as a symbol of her power, and her own capacity to turn her enemies into stone. Historically, before ancient Greece, Medusa was worshipped by the Libyan Amazons as a Serpent -Goddess, and associated with the destroyer aspect Anath. Ships who s...
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Odysseus
Odyssey, lecture 1. THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS (THE ODYSSEY, BOOKS 1–12). The return of Odysseus (Ulysses) is narrated in the Odyssey. It was delayed for ten years by the anger of Poseidon. When, after many adventures, he reached his home, he found his wife, PENELOPE, hard pressed by many suitors, who were ruining his property and plotting to kill his son, TELEMACHUS]. Odysseus killed them all and was reunited with Penelope, resuming his rule over Ithaca. The Lotus-Eaters. Then the Greeks sailed to the l...
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Gallery of the Gods - a quick look
Gallery of the Gods - a quick look. CHILDREN OF ZEUS AND HERA: EILEITHYIA, HEBE, HEPHAESTUS, AND ARES. Was a goddess of childbirth, like her mother, Hera, and Artemis. 8220;youthful bloom,” was a cupbearer of the gods. She became the wife of Heracles. HEPHAESTUS, APHRODITE, AND ARES. The wife of Hephaestus was APHRODITE. Theirs was an archetypal union between the lame intellectual and the sensuous beauty. Aphrodite turned to the handsome and whole ARES. HESTIA, GODDESS OF THE HEARTH AND ITS FIRE. Zeus, P...
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Poseidon and the Sea Deities
Poseidon and the Sea Deities. Poseidon and Sea Deities. MAJOR DEITIES OF THE SEA. Became established as the mighty god of the seas. His wife was AMPHITRITE. 8220;sea”), produced by Gaia in the first stages of creation. The stream of Ocean, and his mate Tethys, titans who produced thousands of children, the Oceanids. A pre-Olympian deity who became an attendant or son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, was an old man of the sea who could foretell the future and could also change his shape at will. Poseidon, as t...
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Theories About Myth
Oedipus and the Sphinx. Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Sir J G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough. Remains a pioneering monument in its attempts to link myth with ritual. Frazer believed that primitive man starts out with a belief in magical laws; later, when man begins to lose faith in magic, he invents myths about gods and claims that his formerly magical rituals are religious rituals intended to appease the gods. MYTH AS SOCIAL CHARTERS. Vladimir Propp, a Russian folklorist, developed the structuralist approa...
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The Trojan Saga
Book I: The Wrath of Achilles. Agamemnon and Achilles clash over the return of Chryseis to her father in order to appease Apollo and stop the plague. Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles, who withdraws from the fighting. Thetis obtains from Zeus promise to favor the Trojans until Achilles's honor is satisfied. II-XV: The Trojans win upper hand. 1st day of fighting (II-VII). 2nd day of fighting (VIII-X). 3rd day of fighting (XI-XV). XVI-XIX: Achilles returns to battle. 8220;lord of men,” was the le...
