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| son of Cronus and Rhea, god of the underworld |
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| daughter of Demeter, wife of Hades, connected with the cycle of the seasons, with life and death, ate pomegranate seed and was tricked into spending part of the year with Hades |
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| King of Corinth, crime may have been seducing his brother’s daughter, tattling on Zeus, something sexual; punishment - rolling boulder up a mountain slope continuously; task – get boulder up to summit to leave it and finish work; boulder always slip out of his hands before he reached the summit; futile labor and effort; task that one can never complete; symbol of the general human condition |
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| King of Lydia in Asia Minor; like Ixion, violated hospitality of the gods: chopped his son into a stew and served him to the gods (like Lycaon); invited to Olympus to dine with gods and stole their food, intending to share it with his friends; either way – trying to become god-like; punishment – suffer perpetual thirst and hunger; sit waist-deep in pool of water that would drain if he tried to drink it, when reaching for a fruit tree, wind would blow bough of tree just beyond his reach |
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| murdered his father-in-law when he came to secure a bride payment; purified from this murder by Zeus when he hosted him; Ixion then tried to rape Hera and fathered first centaur (symbolic for animalistic masculinity – drunkenness, violence, rape) by cloud-version of Hera; sent into Tartarus for murder and violation of hospitality; tied to flaming wheel |
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| Eubian giant; tried to rape Leto; punishment was to be chained to the ground in the underworld and had his liver eaten by two vultures; very close to punishment of Prometheus |
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| Earth deities like Demeter and Persephone |
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| one of the entrances to the underworld |
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| three-headed dog who guarded gates of Hades; frighten souls who tried to escape gates of the Underworld as well as living people who tried to get into gates without authorization |
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| carry souls across river Styx for a fee |
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| 50 daughters of Danaus; killed their daughters on wedding night, had 50 Egyptian cousins; father did not want them to marry their cousins but was forced to give his daughters to these cousins. He counseled them to hide daggers in their beds and then kill their husbands. One daughter disobeyed him. All others – fill jar with water eternally |
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