CLAS 2220H Final: Final Terms

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 2220H
• Professor: P O O C H I G I A N

Document Summary

Gave it to philoctetes; arrows dipped in poison of blood of. Learnean hydra; important part in trojan war used by greeks to defeat troy in war because. Alcmene married to amphitryon; tricked into having sex w/ zeus after he appears disguised as amphitryon & expands night to twice normal time while making love to her. Mother of hercules (by zeus) and iphicles (by amphitryon); twins of each other (superfetation- twins from two eggs and 2 sperm) Hera delays her labor and eurystheus is born prematurely in order to thwart zeus" plan of having heracles born first and ruling everything. Returns from war to see that alcmene slept w/ zeus. He sleeps w/ her and iphicles is conceived. Eurystheus heracles" taskmaster; becomes king of argos area after hera causes him to be born prematurely, father is sthenelus. Megara 1st wife of heracles, from thebes; has several children w/ heracles; daughter of. Murdered by heracles under fit of madness sent by hera.