CLAS 203 Lecture 17: Monsters and Heroes III

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Minos - minotaur: poseidon"s revenge was to make minos" wife fall in love with the white bull. The son of king minos angers the people of athens because he was too successful at athletic competitions: the people of athens were jealous and killed him. The king avenges his son by attacking athens: forces them to make a treaty - athens must frequently send young males and females to be fed to the. Theseus was believed as a founding father of athens: people go as far as to say that he was the one to introduce democracy (not true, he also represents the virtues with which the people identify. There is a serpent monster that guards the fleece: medea distracts the monster by feeding it while jason steals the fleece. Battle of leuctra 371: crippling spartan defeat, beginning of theban hegemony (371-362, very rich mythology.

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