UCLR 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Panegyric, Haemon, Sophocles
23 Jan 2018
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Epitaph: written in memory of the dead, (spartans at themopylae) Gorgon": each of three sisters, stheno, euryale, and medusa, with snakes for hair, who had the power to turn anyone who looked at them to stone. Aka grey sisters three sisters who shared one eye and one tooth among them. Oracle told king acrisius that danae"s son would kill him. Locked her in a tower, threw away the key so she wouldn"t reproduce. God zeus got in, disguised as a shower of gold, and somehow banged her. Acrisius locks both danae and perseus in a box (can"t kill own blood or else bad karma) and sets them adrift at sea. A fisherman named dictys finds dana and perseus washed up on the shore. He then takes care of them until perseus becomes grown up. The king of the island, called polydeictes, wanted to force dana to marry him.
