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Greco-Roman Mythology (Men)
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Religious Studies
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01/26/2009

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Term
-Hero of the Trojan War
-Dipped in the River Styx by his mother Thetis, leaving only his heel vulnerable
-Kills Hector and desecrates the body
-Killed by Paris by an arrow to the heel
Definition
Achilles
Term
-Famed huntsman
-Comes across Artemis bathing; she turns him into a stag
-Killed by his own hunting hounds
Definition
Actaeon
Term
-Beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite
-Killed by a wild boar
-A flower grew from his blood
Definition
Adonis
Term
-Escapes from Troy, wanders for years, ends up in Italy
-Ancestral hero of the Romans
-Central figure of Virgil's Aeneid
Definition
Aeneas
Term
-Brother of Menelaus and leader of the Greeks during Trojan War
-Sacrified daughter Iphigenia
-Killed by wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
-Story told in Aeschylus's tragedy
Definition
Agamemnon
Term
-Catches winged horse Pegasus
-Slays fire-breathing monster Chimera
Definition
Belleraphon
Term
-Boatman who ferries souls across the River Styx to the Underworld
Definition
Charon
Term
-Built the Labyrinth on Crete for King Minos
-Imprisoned in it, escaped with son Icarus using wax wings
Definition
Daedalus
Term
-Peasant who became king of Phrygia
-Tied a complex knot that Alexander the Great cut with a sword
Definition
Gordias
Term
-Son of Priam and Trojan hero
-Killed by Achilles
Definition
Hector
Term
-Kills family in a fit of madness
-Performs 12 Labors to atone
Definition
Heracles (Hercules)
Term
-Leader of the Argonauts who found the Golden Fleece with Medea's help
-Marries Medea, then leaves her for Glauce (daughter of King of Corinth)
Definition
Jason
Term
-King of Thebes and first husband of Jocasta
-Killed by his son Oedipus
Definition
Laius
Term
-King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, and husband of Helen
Definition
Menelaus
Term
-Son of Gordias and King of Phrygia
-Apollo gave him the ears of an ass
-Turns everything he touches to gold, later transfers this power to the River Pactolus
Definition
Midas
Term
-King of Crete
-Angers Poseidon, who has his wife Pasiphae fall in love with a bull, producing the Minotaur
Definition
Minos
Term
-Beautiful youth who falls in love with his own reflection
-Loved by wood nymph Echo
-Pines away and becomes a flower
Definition
Narcissus
Term
-King of Pylos
-Oldest and wisest councilor among the Greek leaders at Troy
Definition
Nestor
Term
-Takes 10 years to return to Ithaca after fighting 10 year in the Trojan War
-Wisest warrior, devised "Trojan Horse"
-Encounters Polyphemus, Circe, Calypso, Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis
-Comes home to wife Penelope and son Telemachus
Definition
Odysseus
Term
-Saves city of Thebes by answering the Sphinx's riddle
-Father of Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone
-Kills his father and marries his mother
-Story told in a play by Sophocles
Definition
Oedipus
Term
-Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
-Angered by his father's murder so he kills his mother
-Stalked by the Furies, purified by Minerva
Definition
Orestes
Term
-Friend of Achilles and second-in-command of the Myrmidons
-Killed by Hector; Achilles avenges him
Definition
Patroclus
Term
-Son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy
-Chooses Aphrodite in beauty contest; she awards him Helen of Sparta
-Abducts Helen, kills Achilles with an arrow to his vulnerable heel
Definition
Paris
Term
-Kills the Gorgon Medusa, cuts off her head and presents it to Athena
-Rescues Andromeda from a sea monster and marries her
Definition
Perseus
Term
-Son of Apollo
-Given a chance to drive the chariot of the sun, but drives recklessly
-Killed by a thunderbolt from Zeus
Definition
Phaeton
Term
-King of Troy during Trojan War
-Father of Hector, Troilus, Paris, and Cassandra
-Killed by Pyrrhus, son of Achilles
Definition
Priam
Term
-Ancient Greek of Attica who has travelers fit the size of his bed
-If they are too short, he stretches them; if they are too tall, he cuts them down to size
-Killed by Theseus
Definition
Procrustes
Term
-King of Corinth
-Must eternally roll a stone up a hill in Tartarus
Definition
Sisyphus
Term
-Son of Zeus and King of Lydia
-Stole a favorite dog of Zeus's
-Gave ambrosia and nectar to men
-Killed his son and served him to the gods
-Forced to have food eternally out of his reach in Hades
Definition
Tantalus
Term
-King of Athens who slays the Minotaur
-Fights the Amazons, marries Hippolyta, and has a son, Hippolytus
Definition
Theseus
Term
-Blind prophet cursed to know the future but have no one believe him
-Predicts that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother
Definition
Tiresias
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