CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Iphitos
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Bull: sacrifice to poseidon: the mares of diomeds a wild uncivilized area according to the greeks capture the man-eating horses of diomedes. Heracles sacks the city, captures the horses, gives them to his own horse to eat(?) on his way home he goes to his friend"s house. The house is in mourning though; because his friend"s wife is dead (she took her husbands place in death) Amazons: lived in a very far away, scary, exotic place warrior women. good with bow and arrow cut off one breast (not a universal theme) Hippolyta: the queen of the amazons he becomes her lover; hippolyta agrees to give back the girl but (somebody) tells the amazons that heracles wants to abduct their queen, so they go to save her when they are together. Heracles thinks hippolyta had lied to him, kills her, gets the girdle and runs away love and death: the cattle of geryon.
