CLT 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Cranaus, Pandion I, Minos
7 Nov 2016
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Class 24: myths of athens and crete (i) The royal house of athens (kings) and their contributions to athens. The story of tereus, procne, and philomela. The story of minos, pasiphae, and the minotaur. The royal house of athens (9 kings): cecrops, cranaus, amphictyon, erichthonius, pandion i, erechtheus, cecrops ii, pandion ii, aegeus, cecrops. Held contest between athena vs. poseidon for the name of. Sacrifices to zeus (forbade sacrificing living creatures) Birth unclear (son of cecrops or gaea?) Great flood during his reign: cranaus, amphictyon. Founded amphictyonic leagues or league of neighbors . Taught to properly dilute wine with water by dionysus. A tribe with religious/political goals: erichthonius. Entrusted the box to cecrops" 3 daughters and forbade them to open it. So of course they opened the box. And as expected totally overreacted and jumped off the acropolis. As king of athens, founded the panathenaic festivals. He was lame (couldn"t walk: pandion i.
