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Final Exam
Classics 110
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artemis | had Actaeon torn apart by his own dogs when he was turned into a stag because he witnessed a bathing shot Niobe's children in an attempt to outnumber the other gang |
| The Danaids | killed their soon to be husbands in their wedding beds in order to avoid marriage |
| Creon | had Antigone locked in a cave as a punishment of disobedience |
| Hermes | stole Apollo's cattle as a childish prank |
| Pandora | unlocked the box of evils because of curiosity |
| Agamemnon | killed Iphigenia as a sacrifice |
| Clytemnestra | killed Agamemnon in revenge for the death of their daughter killed Cassandra out of vengeful jealousy |
| Orestes | kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus revenge for the murder of his father |
| Akrisios | put his daughter Danae and her infant son afloat in a chest to avoid a prophesy |
| Prometheus | stole fire from the gods to benefit humanity |
| Jason | stole the Golden Fleece as a challenge |
| Paris | stole Helen of Sparta to elope |
| Phaethon | crashed his father's, Helios, chariot |
| Heracles | killed his family in a temporary fit of insanity killed Linus a music teacher with a lyre out of annoyance killed a centaur, Nessus while defending his wife |
| Deianira | killed her husband, Heracles, to try to keep her husband |
| Poseidon | killed Hippolytus in a hit and run collision |
| Medea | killed her children with Jason out of anger over divorce trick Pelias's daughters into cutting him up and cooking him to make him young again because faking magic |
| Oedipus | killed Laius |
| Apollo | flayed Marsyus to death as part of the conditions of a music contest |
| Laius | exposed Oedipus as a baby to try to avoid prophesy |
| Bacchae / Bacchantes | dismembered Orpheus ecstatic reaction disembowled Pentheus in a rage because he refused the worship of Dionysus |
| Tantalus | cooked Pelops as a child as a test of divine knowledge |
| Pelops | killed Myrtilus to avoid payment |
| Hades | abducted Persephone for marriage |
| Odysseus | blinds Cyclops Polyphemus to save the mission shot suitors of Penelope at a feast out of rage |
| Zeus / Jupiter | incinerated Semele out of lust and because he was bound by word embraced Io as a cloud to make her conceive abducted Europa as a bull abducted Ganymede who was a beautiful boy to be the wine bearer for the gods |
| Golden Age of Cronus | primal age where there were no seasons and there were no reasons to work Saturn was the king of the gods and gave everything to earth that humans needed |
| Silver Age | was still good but live are not as good as parents |
| Age of Heroes | Trojan War and all of the stories of heroes |
| Bronze Age | violent Age |
| Iron Age | age of complete deterioration |
| Python | the serpent most famous in antiquity Apollo kills him to establish himself |
| Aphrodite | was born of the sea |
| Daphne | turned into a tree because she was so afraid of Apollo |
| Pan | is a weird goat thing |
| Cadmus | killed a dragon, by order of Zeus, to save his sister Europa father of Thebes patriarch of the tragic dynasty of sacrificial kings sowed the teeth of the dragon in a field |
| Bacchus | the god of wine, miracles, and passions, abducted by pirates |
| Salmacis | nymph embraced Hermaphroditos the son of Hermes and Aphrodite to unite with him into one androgynous being |
| Perseus | killed Medusa The snakes on Medusa's head were a punishment from Athena |
| Demeter | searches for Persephone because she is her daughter |
| Latona | turns Lycian peasants into frogs because they didn't help |
| Minotaur | offspring of Pasiphae and her bull |
| Theseus | killed the Minotaur abandoned Ariadne at Naxos |
| Icarus | flew too close to the sun and his wings melted |
| Caledonian Boar Hunt | Meleagar gives the prize to Atalanta and defend Atalanta from his uncles who intent to steal the prize by killing the uncles |
| Baucis and Philemon | visited by Jupiter(Zeus)and Mercury(Hermes) gave the gods everything they had so they wee granted a wish wished to die on the same day the only time a wish didn't go terribly |
| Erysichthon | cut down the tree of Ceres punished by eating himself |
| Pygmalion | fell in love with a statue and prayed to Venus to let him marry a girl that looked just like that so the statue came to life and they got married |
| Minos | served as a judge between Apollo and Pan |
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