CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Cacus, Heracleidae, Eurystheus
12 Dec 2015
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Clas203 lecture 21 hercules part 2. Labours outside of greece: girdle of hippolyta amazons (far east) The battle of the amazons was depicted on the parthenon. >depicted breast-less (aids in shooting the bow with ease) They represented an inversion of the proper orders. >had no ties to men, coupled with a man only when they. Believed to have lived in the far east, ruled by a queen. Quest: sent to warrior women and must bring back the girdle of. When hippolyta sees heracles, she unties her girdle. >symbolic that she wants to sleep with him. Hera lets the other amazons know that heracles is attacking the. *parergon: heracles has a side quest in troy, laomedon. Queen: cattle of geryon: (west of spain) He was helped by the god helius on the way there. >heracles can get in the cup and float to the island. Heracles fights and slays both geryon and his hound.
