CLAS 203 Lecture : Lecture 24 Notes.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 203
• Professor: Margaret Palczynski

Document Summary

Athamas and nephele (king and queen of boeotia) Ino: phrixus, helle, hellespont, colchis (black sea, aeetes (king of colchis, the golden fleece. Cretheus (king of iolcus: pelias (poseidon) vs. aeson, jason, chiron, oracle, quest of the golden fleece. Argo (argus): argonauts (sailors of the argo ship) - *do not need to know all the. Argonauts: orpheus, dioscuri (castor, polydeuces, telamon (ajax), peleus (achilles, augeas, admetus, heracles, lemnos (*forge of hephaestus*): hipsipyle. Women on lemnos insulted aphrodite; thus she causes all the women on. Lemnos to have body odur, resulting in the women killing all the men: loss of heracles (hylas, harpies (king phineus): zetes and calais, symplegades (the clashing rocks") Colchis: aeetes, medea: yoking of the bulls, sowing field with dragon"s teeth, stealing the golden fleece, flight from colchis (apsyrtus) Return to iolcus: many adventures on the way back, the death of pelias, exile.