CLAS 1P97 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Palatine Hill, Lapiths, Acrisius
6 Apr 2016
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Acrisius: grandfather of perseus, perseus throws a disk and it hits acrisius killing him, oracles cannot be evaded. Alcmena: galanthis trick allowed alcmena to give birth to heracles. Amphitryon: marries alcmena but accidentally kills her father electryon in a quarrel. Alcmena won"t sleep with him unitl he cleanses himself by avenging he deaths of her brothers. Zeus distinguishes himself as amphitryon and impregnates alcmena. Ariadne: child of queen pasiphae, who is the daughter f helios (son god) Bull of marathon: theseus put to the test. Medea wants her son to be king of. Cocalus: king of sicans, the indigenous people of central sicily. Heracles recused her form a marriage to a scary river god achelous. Eurystheus: heracles sacks his city and capturs iole. Gorgon: snake haired flying monsters (3 sisters) sthero and euryale are immortal and medusa mortal. Hero n: a tomb or cenotaph of a famous person (real or fictional) can become center of cult activity.
