CLCV 115 Lecture Notes - Inachus, Evil Eye, Serifos
19 May 2014
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Powell 7th edition: chapter 14: find argos, mycenae, the cyclades, the caucasus mountains, egypt and ethiopia on a map. Io is the daughter of melia and inachus. She was a priestess of hera and lover of zeus. Argus was set to watch over io and make sure that she couldn"t go anywhere and zeus sent. In egypt she will regain human form and be pregnant with epaphus- the future king of egypt. Her descendant in the 13th generation(hercules) will set prometheus free. Hypermnestra spared her husband lynceus because he spared her virginity. For defying her father"s orders, hypermnestra is imprisoned but later released to remain with lynceus. All the other daughters had difficulty finding husbands for his daughters so he held a foot race and gave them away as prizes along with fancy shields. Might explain the origin of the great swamps in lerna at the southern edge of the argive plain,
