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"Cupid"
Son of Aphrodite & Ares
Aphrodite was jealous of Psyche, told Eros to make her fall in love with unworthy man, falls in love with her instead never allowing her to see him. |
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| Plato's symposium, speech of Aristophanes, primordial, ambitious human beings. Etiological qualities |
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Son of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis,
grandson of Hermes and Aphrodite
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| Apple thrown before Athena (Wisdom & War), Hera (Rule of Asia Minor) & Aphrodite ("For the fairest"), Aphrodite promised Paris the most beautiful trojan woman if he named her "The fairest" (HELEN of troy) |
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| had Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Hermez & Hephaestus on their side. Fighting to keep Helen. |
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| Part of the trojan saga written by homer. Narrates the first 9 years of the war. Begins with Judgement of Paris. |
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| Trojan Saga was written in it. Specific writing style known to classic greek & latin epics such as Homer's Iliad and Oddysey & Vergil's Aeneid. |
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| "The Returns" 6th of the 8 poems in the Trojan Saga (return of the greeks) |
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| Troy in ancient times. Circia 1300-1190 BC. |
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| Sack of Troy, #5 in the trojan saga. |
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| Books 1-4 of the Odyssey, Introduction to Ithaca, Telemachos sets sail for news of Odysseus. |
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| What Odysseus told the Cyclops (Polyphemus) his name was. Drove a fiery spit through his only eye. |
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| Book 11 of Odyssey, Journey to the underworld. Conquest of death. |
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| Monsters w/ a horrific voice, Odysseus was caught between them and it was im possible to get out. |
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| Their seductive song kills men, they are "bird women" Odysseus tells his men to block their ears with wax but they don't. |
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| Archery competition, winner of it wins Penelope, Odysseus won. He was still in disguise but Penelope knew who he was anyway. |
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| Tantalus starts the House of Atreus, cooks his son Pelops and feeds him to the gods, sent to the underworld. |
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| Comes from "Tantalus" hubristic, tried to fool the gods...Sent to the underworld where he is "tantalized" by hanging fruit and water that he can never reach. |
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| struggle between two characters...Clytemnestra & Agamemnon for example. |
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| Female personifications of vengance. Born from the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him. Orestes prays to them because he is told by Apollo to kill his father's murderer (agamemnon) and then finds out it was his mother (clytemnestra) |
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| Called the Hill of Ares, site of the trial of Orestes for killing his mother, Clytemnestra & her lover Aegisthus. |
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| compared to Freud's Oedipus Complex, Carl Jung created it. Electra was sister of Orestes, wanted him to avenge father's murder by killing their mother (murderer) |
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| decide the course of life, destiny, fate, old, ugly women. |
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| prison of the titans, prison of the great sinners, dark region far beneath Hades. |
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| Elysian fields, where the blessed get to go, resting place of the souls of the heroic. |
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| Plato's...Concludes the Republic. Er was a soldier who narrates the soul's fate after death. Exploration of the nature of the soul. |
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| Sisyphus, revealed infidelity of Zeus and had to roll rock up a hill for all of eternity. |
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| Mystery religion, annual initiation into cult for Demeter and Persephone. |
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| Hades tricked Persephone into eating 4 pomegranate seeds causing her to have to stay in the underworld for 4 months. |
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| cult-like religion with followers who had to be initiated in. |
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| Women's ritual honoring Demeter and Persephone. Held during summer when Persephone was in the underworld and Demeter mourned her. |
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| Form of Emotional Cleansing. |
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| son of zeus and persephone, torn to pieces (sparagmos), re-formed in semele's womb, resewn into zeus' thigh. |
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| mystery religion. Orpheus, Persephone & Dionysus descended into the underworld and were able to return. |
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| attribute of dionysus, fertility staff, made of fennel and a pinecone |
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| Female followers of Dionysus...Drank copius amounts of alcohol. |
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| Part man/Part animal "always excited" |
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| The tearing of limb from limb. Pentheus was torn apart by Maenads when he was spying on their Bacchic rites. |
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| the eating of the raw flesh, usually following sparagmos. |
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| Doomed to fall in love with his own reflection over and over again. Staring into the water. |
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| book of how to communicate with the gods made by Tages (only a head) governing rules of Etruscan religion. |
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| studied the piacenza liver, form of divination. |
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| system of government in which the gods rule. |
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| the melding of etruscan religion with greek and local religion |
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| Gold, Silver, Bronze & Iron. |
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| complete and utter devotion to gods, state and religion. |
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| Oracle that leads Aenaes into the underworld. |
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| Area around Rome, Aeneas settles there, courts Lavinia, daughter of Latinus |
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| Means, "The Middle of Things" when a story starts in the Middle, for example, Oedipus. |
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