CLA 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Megapenthes, Nereid, Wallet
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Io and her descendants: the cow phase. Zeus just has time to finish and tries to deceive hera by turning io into a cow. Io was free, but stung constantly by the gadfly hera sends to torment her she is pushed all around the ancient world. The bosporus cow crossing is where europe meets asia (now istanbul: on the far side of the black sea, io stumbles upon prometheus bound. Io"s much later descendent heracles will free prometheus much later: great scene in aescylus" prometheus" bound (430 bce), they commiserate about zeus. Prometheus foretells that io"s journey will end in egypt, where zeus will reappear; she will return to human form. Zeus" touch makes her pregnant, io bears epaphus ( the one who has been touched ) Epaphus becomes king of egypt, marries (and founds) memphis (where cairo is now) 49 wives decapitate their husbands: hypermnestra (wife) spares lynceus (husband) because he spares her virginity.
