Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sparagmos, Erinyes, Trojan War
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Multiple choice: in the oresteia, which is the place where the con icts of the trilogy are. Nally resolved: thebes, argos story begins in argos, delphi orestes goes the delphi after he kills his mother, athens. Europa gets on a bull, the bull jumps into the ocean and swims to crete. Cadmus: founder of thebes has to slay a dragon in order to retrieve thebes takes the teeth of the dragon and plants them in the ground and an army springs up. Cadmus and harmonia give birth to ino, autonoe, semele, agave. Remember: semele gave birth to dionysus, and then becomes incinerated when zeus shows his true form dionysus then came full term in zeus" thigh. Many myths of resistance to the god and the punishment of theomachoi (someone who. Sparagmos sacri cial victim that is torn apart. Thyrsus term for the wand tipped with a pinecone and wound with ivy that the maenads and dionysus carry.