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Mythology 121
Honors Course of Mythology Final
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
05/15/2012

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Term
Xenophobia
Definition
Medea
King Creon kicking Medea out of the country
Term
Connections
Definition
Medea
Ageus and the fertility and drugs(Ageus couldn't have children but Medea could help him with her magic and then he could provide her with a place to stay after she was kicked out)
Term
Money
Definition
Glauke
Term
Smart Woman
Definition
Medea
Term
Deus ex Machina
Definition
Medea
Only story with it in it
Term
Hybris Medea
Definition
Jason notices and marries Glauke
Feels he can do what he wants
Term
Choice Medea
Definition
Medea tries to get on Jason's good side
Gives Glauke poisoned dress
Kills children with sword
Term
Hamartia Medea
Definition
Kills Glauke with dress
Term
Imagery Agamemnon
Definition
Nets
Inescapable fate
Imposing doom
Capturing
Toils
Term
Agamemnon
Definition
King of Sparta
Term
Clytemnestra
Definition
Queen of Sparta
Term
Cassandra
Definition
Slave/mistress of Agamemnon. Prophet of whom no one believes
Term
Aegisthus
Definition
Clytemnestra's lover
Ruled over Sparta during Agamemnon's absence
Term
Choice Agamemnon
Definition
Ag. choosing to kill his daughter Iphigena to end the Trojan War

Clytaemestra choosing to kill Ag and Cassandra to avenge her daughter's death
Term
Hybris
Definition
Cly saying Ag was the greatest warrior and king
Cly thinking she was approved by the gods to kill Ag because of the curse placed on his family
Ag bringing home a mistressq
Term
Hamartia
Definition
Cly killing Ag
Cly killing Cassandra
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"Those they love they sent for"
Definition
Agamemnon
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