CLAA06H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 - Gilgamesh, Perseus, Heracles

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After being severed by the bacchants, orpheus" head was thrown into hebrus and floated in the. Aegean see up to the island of lesbos, never ceasing its song. Greek heroes: perseus, heracles, theseus, jason, perseus. Connected with the cities of mycene (other important rulers, atreus, and agamemnon), tiryns and argos. Perseus" ancestress is io, daughter of the oceanid melia and inachus, the god river that crosses the argive plain. Io, priestess of hera, affair with zeus; argus, hera"s peacock; io"s wanderings: ionian sea, Macedonia, thrace, bosporus straits, around the black sea, caucasus mountain, egypt. Hermes killing argus and io as heifer, red-figure attic case, 5th c bc. Ephaphus king of egypt marries the daughter of the nile, memphis, eponym of the city now. They have a daughter libya; libya and poseidon have agenor (father of europa) and belus; Belus and another daughter of nilus have twins: aegyptus (arabia) and danaus (libya)

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