Iron age: A corrupt time, nothing is sacred, lots of bloodshed

·  Jupiter visits house of Lycaon who feeds him human flesh, Jupiter unleashes a flood only _______ and Pyrrha survive

·  Themis tells them to “cast bones of mother behind their back”

·  They threw stones and humans formed

·  Jupiter visits house of Lycaon who feeds him human flesh, Jupiter unleashes a flood only Deucalion and ______ survive

·  Themis tells them to “cast bones of mother behind their back”

·  They threw stones and humans formed

·      Apollo insults cupid who shoots two arrows, one makes Apollo fall in love with _______, the other makes _______ flee

·      ________ asks father (river god) to save her and he turns her into a Laurel tree

·  Jupiter loves and rapes a nymph ______ and to protect her from Juno he turns her into a cow. Juno is still suspicious and has argus watch her. Jupiter sends Mercury to put Argus to sleep with stories. Epaphus is the child of Jupiter and ______

·  ____________ is the son of the sun god but not acknowledged for it

·  Asks for a favor: to drive his fathers chariot, crashes it into earth

·  Jupiter falls in love with ________ and disguises himself as a beautiful bull to get close to her

·  Carries her away from Tyre to Crete on his back and seduces her there

·  ________’s father sends her brother, Cadmus, to look for her

·  Cadmus ends up founding Thebes – slays a serpent on Minerva’s instructions and plants its teeth in soil, the Spartoi are born, five of them rule Thebes

·  Grandson of Cadmus (brother of Europa)

·  Out hunting and runs across Diana and her nymphs bathing

·  She turns him into a stag and his own hunting dogs tear him apart

·  Juno makes ______ wonder if she is really sleeping with Jupiter and persuades her to ask him to have sex with her as himself

· ____________ is burned to a crisp and the child, Bacchus, is brought to term on Jupiter’s thigh

·  _________ is a beautiful 16 year old boy pursued by both men and women

·  Echo is a nymph who would chat with Juno to distract her while Jupiter seduced the other nymphs, Juno punishes her by making her only able to repeat the last words said

·  Echo falls in love with ________ who rejects her and Echo prays to Aphrodite to make her disappear so that all that remains is her voice

·  ____________sees himself when he looks into a spring and is so captivated that he can’t stop looking and wastes away

·  __________ and Thisbe are a beautiful young couple in Babylon who fall in love but their parents don’t approve

·  They flee and decide to meet at Ninus’ tomb in Ninevah

·  When Thisbe gets there, a lioness charges her. She escapes but the lion gets her shawl

·  _________ finds the bloody shawl and stabs himself

·  Thisbe sees him die and stabs herself

·  Mulberry tree’s berries stained red

Thisbe

·  __________ is a beautiful boy, son of Hermes and Aphrodite

·  Salmacis, a nymph falls in love with him and surprises him while bathing in a pond

·  They wrestle and she prays that they will be joined in one, they are: both sexes in one body

·  From then on the pool changes the gender of those who step in it

__________ is the son of Zues and Danae, the daughter of the King of Argos, he seduced her by disguising himself as a shower of gold

· _________ flies to Ethiopia, where princess Andromeda is chained to a rock to be eaten by a sea-beast because her mother Cassiopea compared her beauty to that of the Nereids

·  The Nereids call down a flood that can only be appeased by the sacrifice of Andromeda

·  __________ gets to marry Andromeda in exchange for killing beast

·  Andromeda was already engaged to Phineus and his allies come in thousands to attack _________ who kills many of them then uses Medusa’s head to finish off the rest

Perseus flies to Ethiopia, where princess ________ is chained to a rock to be eaten by a sea-beast because her mother Cassiopea compared her beauty to that of the Nereids

·  The Nereids call down a flood that can only be appeased by the sacrifice of _________

·  Perseus gets to marry _______ in exchange for killing beast

·  __________ was already engaged to Phineus and his allies come in thousands to attack Perseus who kills many of them then uses Medusa’s head to finish off the rest

·  _________ was a beautiful maiden with beautiful hair until Neptune raped her in the temple of Athena

·  Athena was outraged and punished _______ with snake hair

The Gigantomachy 

·  The Pierides sing this story

·  From mythic prehistory; an attempt by Giants to defeat the Olympian Gods

·  “ascribing spurious prowess to the Giants, belittling all the exploits of the gods”

Typhoeus is defeated and buried under Sicily

·  _________ claims to be a better weaver than Minerva who is disguised as an old woman

·  She challenges Minerva to a weaving competition and loses, turned into a spider

·  Minerva’s tapestry has five stories, in the center is the story of Athena and Poseidon fighting to name Athens (Poseidon offers salt water spring, Athena olive tree)

·  Other four stories are about challenging gods and being turned into mountain, crane, stork

·  _________’s is very cluttered and disorganized in comparison 27 stories of women being seduced or raped by gods. A representative of Ovid

·  Friend of Arachne, wife of Amphion who is founder of Thebes with brother Zethus

·  ________ is mother of seven daughter and seven sons and brags she has more divine geneology than Leto

·  Apollo kills all seven sons with one arrow and Artemis kills all seven daughters

·  She cries and gods turn her to stone

·  Claims to be better flute player than Apollo and is flayed alive

·  ____________ is fed to gods by Tantalus, his father

·  Ceres wasn’t paying attention and ate his shoulder

·  Thracian King, _______, marries Procne, daughter of Athenian king

·  Procne wants to see her sister Philomela and ________ goes to Athens to get her

·  ________ falls in love with Philomela and rapes her and cuts out her tongue so she can't tell anyone and strands her in forest cottage

·  Philomela tells story through tapestry and tells Procne

·  Procne pretends to be bacchant to go get her

·  They cook up Procne’s and ________’s son Itys to ________

·  They all turn to birds Philomela into a nightingale

·  ________ is the father of Jason

·  Medea helps Jason get the golden fleece

·  Medea restores ________ to youth by killing him (slit his throat) then feeding him a potion of secret herbs

·  Medea kills Pelias (half brother of _________) by using same magic without herbs

·  Medea attempts to poison Theseus – transition to next section

·  _________ loves and marries Procris (daughter of Erechtheus)

·  _________ has a magic javelin that never misses its mark

·  He worries that she will be unfaithful and leaves and returns in disguise

·  He attempts to seduce her and it works and she flees, but eventually get back together until she begins to doubt him

·  He is out hunting and he is calling suggestively to Zephyr, the west wind, and is jealous and spies. She startles him and he throws his javelin and kills her

·  Mino’s wife Pasiphae falls in love with a bull and Daedalus makes an artificial cow so she can sleep with the bull and their child is the _______

·  Daedalus builds the labyrinth to keep _______ trapped and must use human sacrifice from Athens to keep it alive

·  Theseus is sent to defeat the _______ and does so with the help of Ariadne, Mino’s daughter

·  Ariadne sails away with Theseus but is left on Naxos for Dionysys

_________ builds the labyrinth to keep minotaur trapped and must use human sacrifice from Athens to keep it alive

·  ________ makes wings out of wax and feathers for his son Icarus and he flies too high and his wings melt and he falls into the ocean

·  Calydon has neglected Diana and she gets revenge by sending a giant boar

·  _________, prince of Calydon, falls for Atalanta, the woman who kills the boar

·  The uncles try to claim the kill and __________ kills them

·  Althea, __________’s mother and sister of the uncles burns the log that the fates say will last as long as _________’s life and he dies

·  only happy story

·  _______ is married to Philemon

·  An old poor farming couple that is very happy

·  Jupiter and Mercury come down to test them and the couple feeds them their only goose, the gods reward them by sparing them from flood and promise they will always be together

·  When they die, they die together and are turned into a tree with two trunks

·  only happy story

·  _______ is married to Baucis

·  An old poor farming couple that is very happy

·  Jupiter and Mercury come down to test them and the couple feeds them their only goose, the gods reward them by sparing them from flood and promise they will always be together

·  When they die, they die together and are turned into a tree with two trunks

·____________ is greedy and cuts down a sacred tree, Ceres punishes him with perpetual hunger

·  Sells daughter into slavery to pay for food, and she is a shape shifter, so he can keep selling her to different people

·  He eventually becomes so hungry he eats himself things

·  _______ is a centaur and Deianira is Hercules wife

·  _______________helps Deianira across the river Euenus and then rapes her

·  Hercules stabs him and as revenge ________ give Deianira a shirt covered in his toxic blood and says its love potion

·  Hercules falls for Iole while out on an adventure

·  Deainira sends the shirt to Hercules to try to win him back and he burns with pain and builds his own funeral pyre

·  Jupiter takes pity on him and the mortal parts of Hercules die on the pyre but the immortal parts will become a god

·  Nessus is a centaur and _________ is Hercules wife

·  Nessus helps ___________ across the river Euenus and then rapes her

·  Hercules stabs him and as revenge Nessus give ________ a shirt covered in his toxic blood and says its love potion

·  Hercules falls for Iole while out on an adventure

·  _________ sends the shirt to Hercules to try to win him back and he burns with pain and builds his own funeral pyre

·  Jupiter takes pity on him and the mortal parts of Hercules die on the pyre but the immortal parts will become a god

·  Juno tries to kill baby _______ by sending twin snakes to his cradle – more popular story

Ovid’s version:

·  Alceme is giving birth Juno tries to stop her, her maid Galanthis tricks Juno into thinking it already happened and then Galanthis is turned into a weasel

·  Deainira sends Nessus’ bloody shirt to _________ to try to win him back and he burns with pain and builds his own funeral pyre

·  Jupiter takes pity on him and the mortal parts of ________ die on the pyre but the immortal parts will become a god

·  Miletus, son of Minos, has twin children and daughter _______ falls in love with twin brother Caunus

·  She falls in love with her brother and tries to seduce him, he spurns her and she tries harder, pursuing him into the forest where she collapses and turns into a spring

·  Ligdus has a pregnant wife that rays for a son because they can afford a daughter

·  They have a daughter, ________, but the wife cant bear to get rid of her and pretends she is a boy

·  Ianthe is betrothed to ________ and they pray to Isis who turns _______ into a man so Ianthe will never know that _______ was once a girl

·  Apollo gives him a lyre

·  His wife Eurydice dies on their wedding day, by satyr or snake

·  Goes down to underworld and begs Pluto for his wife back

·  He plays his music and they agree as long as he doesn’t look back as he leaves

·  He does look back and she returns to the underworld

·  He invents homosexuality and is torn to pieces by Maenads

·  Apollo gives Orpheus a lyre, _________'s love

· __________ dies on her wedding day, by satyr or snake

·  Goes down to underworld and begs Pluto for his wife back

·  He plays his music and they agree as long as he doesn’t look back as he leaves

·  He does look back and she returns to the underworld

·  A mortal boy who Jupiter falls in love with, a Trojan prince, who is turned into an eagle and brought to be Jupiter’s cup bearer

·  Apollo falls so in love with _____ he forgets to play his lyre and just wants to hunt and do track and field

·  Apollo throws a discus at _____’s head and he dies, names flower after him

·  ________ is a sculptor who is disgusted by temple prostitutes(once Propoetides who didn’t respect Venus and were turned to prostitutes)

·  _______ makes his own woman sculpture and prays to Venus to give it life

·  Galatea comes to life and they have a daughter Paphos who gives her name to Cyprus

·  Pygmalion is a sculptor who is disgusted by temple prostitutes(once Propoetides who didn’t respect Venus and were turned to prostitutes)

·  He makes his own woman sculpture and prays to Venus to give it life

·  ______ comes to life and they have a daughter Paphos who gives her name to Cyprus

·  _____ is the daughter of Cinyras(Son of Paphos, grandson of Pygmalion and Galatea) and falls in love with him

·  Tries to kill herself, nurse stops her but then agrees to help her at festival of Ceres trick her father into having sex with her by saying there is a girl who secretly wants to have sex with her and after a few nights he discovers the truth

·  He tries to kill her and she flees and wanders the Arabian desert

·  Adonis is born and she turns into a myrrh tree

·  Venus falls for _________(Son of Myrrha and her father, Cinyras)

·  She neglects heaven and joins ______ in the hunt

·  Tells him story of Atalanta and Hippomenes

·  Gored in the groin by a boar he hunts

·  _________ can only marry a man who defeats her in a running race

·  Hippomenes begs Venus for help and she makes golden apples to distract __________ during race

·  They celebrate their marriage in the temple of Cybele, and Venus and Cybele are horrified and turn them into lions

·  A group of Maenads are immune to charms of his music

·  They tear him to pieces  and he is reunited with Eurydice

·  Dionysus turns the maenads into trees to punish them

·  Bacchus leaves Thrace but Silenus does not go with him

·  _______ brings him back to Bacchus and he offered ______ a reward – golden touch

·  Apollo (lyre) and Pan (flute) have a musical competition

·  The judge says Apollo wins but _______ disagrees, Apollo gives him donkey ears

• King ______ grants asylum to Peleus(Achilles' father) who has murdered his own half brother Phocus
• A messenger reports that a wolf has killed all of Peleus' cattle, _____ wants to fight back but Peleus knows it's because he killed Phocus, Peleus prays to Psammanthe to spare his flock and Thetis intervenes, turning wolf to marble
• ____ heads to oracle of Apollo at Claros to learn more and his ship is destroyed and Alcyone, his wife, prays at temple of juno. Juno sends Iris to get Sleep to send her a vision of ____ drowning. She wakes up and goes out to see husband drowning and tries to drown herself, both turned into Kingfisher

·  Nestor tells Achilles the story if The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

·  _________ is marrying Hippodame and invites the centaurs to his wedding

·  The centaurs get drunk and abduct all the women

·  Caeneus(the woman turned into a man by posiedon) helps the lapiths

·  The Centaurs burry her under rocks because she cant be killed

·  Hercules son asks why Nestor didn’t include his father in the story, Hercules killed 10 of Nestor’s 11 brothers

  _________ helps the lapiths against centaurs

·  The Centaurs burry her under rocks because she cant be killed

Poseidon rapes her and grants her one wish, she asks to become a man so she will not have to endure that again, also makes her invulnerable to wounds

• Story of "The Death of _____"
• Apollo guides Paris' arrow to ______' heel because Poseidon asked him to
• "killed by a woman"
• fight for his armour

Fight for Achilles' armour

o   ________ says he is of divine ancestory and has battled since the beginning when Odysseus faked insanity and then lists his accomplishments

o   Odysseus begins with tribute to Achilles, points out divine ancestory, and says that Achilles had to be tricked into fighting too (merchant brought jewelry and spears and Achilles chose spear, proving he was a man)

·      He is wounded on way to Troy on his foot and his wound stinks

·      Odysseus convinces the Greeks to strand him on an island

·      A prophecy reveals that the Greeks need Hercules' bow to win and ______ has it

·      Odysseus and other Greeks go to island to get it

·      Culture hero inventor of alphabet, chess, currency

·      Odysseus never forgives ______ for tricking him into showing he is not insane, forcing him to fight in Trojan war

·      Eventually convinces Greeks that ________ is betraying them to Priam and _________ is killed

·      __________, daughter of Priam

·      Achilles ghost tells greeks they must sacrifice her in order to sail home she's killed at tomb of Achilles by Neoptolemus

_______ is the son of Priam

Sent as hostage to King Polymestor in Thrace

When Troy falls, Polymestor kills ____ to get his treasure

Hecuba gets her revenge on Polymestor, blinding him with her bare hands and turns him into a dog

______ is the wife of Priam

Gets revenge on Polymestor when he murders her son Polydorus after the Trojan war

She blinds him and turns him into a dog

·      Connected to Cyclops story

·      Polyphemus falls in love with nymph Galatea and so does ________

·      Polyphemus tries to kill _______ who is turned into a river god

______ guides Aeneas in the underworld

Apollo fell in love with her and gave her eternal life but not eternal youth, she is 700 years old

·      When _______ died, his mother, Venus, washed away every mortal part so the best remained, purifying him, then anointing him, making him a god who the Romans make shrines and altars for

·      ________ is a beautiful young woman, skilled with plants

·      She resists Venus and the seduction of satyrs, Pan, Silenus, Priapus

·      Vertumnus falls in love with her and and woos her disguised as an old woman

·      He tells her the story of Iphis who falls in love with Anaxarete, she spurns him and he hangs himself in her doorway and she turns to stone

·      The story doesn’t work on _______, but when Vertumnus returns to his handsome self, then ________ yields to him

·      Pomona is a beautiful young woman, skilled with plants

·      She resists Venus and the seduction of satyrs, Pan, Silenus, Priapus

·      _______ falls in love with her and and woos her disguised as an old woman

·      He tells her the story of Iphis who falls in love with Anaxarete, she spurns him and he hangs himself in her doorway and she turns to stone

·      The story doesn’t work on Pomona, but when _________ returns to his handsome self, then Pomona yields to him

·      Mars addressed the Father of gods and men “The time has come father, since now the Roman state stands firm on great foundations, not dependent still on one man’s power, to award the promised prize (earned by me grandson, promised to us both), that he be taken from earth and placed in heaven”

·      He ascended into heaven

Legendary Greek philosopher, inventor of mystery religion, mathematics, vegetarianism, and reincarnation

His speech to the Roman King Numa gives Ovid the chance talk about change as fundamental philosophical principle borrowed from Heraclitus "all things flow"

After his death, Artemis gets Asclepius to heal ______ and sends him to Italy

He becomes a minor god and priest of Diana under the name Virbius "Twice a Man"

·      Rumors that ________ wanted to be made a god were partly behind his assassination, making living rulers into gods was standard practice in Greece, but taboo in Rome

·      He is deified after his assassination

·      Venus snatched his new-freed soul before it could dissolve into the air, bore it up to join the stars in heaven, so he could see the achievements of his son and hopes to be surpassed.