Clas 220 1st Edition Lecture 24Quiz1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a god? Good by nature2. Which of the gods or goddesses is concerned with the grape harvest, wine making, and tragedy?- Dionysus3. Who kidnaps Demeter’s daughter?- Hades 4. What is the name of Achilles mother?- Thetis 5. For whom does Achilles hold funeral games?- Patroclus6.- Achelous is the oldest and greatest of rivers- Jupiter and Mercury arrive at Baucis and Philemon, elderly peasants- They feed them even though they don’t have much – gods give them a spring and grant their wish to die together (turn into tree trunks- branches intertwine) - Erysichthon is a bad guy and cuts down a sacred tree- punished with perpetual hunger so he sells his daughter but she is a shape changer so she escapes and the story repeats. Eventually he gets so hungry he eats himself. Hercules cycle- Greatest of Greek heroes- Famous for 12 labors (before the Trojan war)- Achelous and Hercules – changes into a snake but Hercules stills wins- Nessus and Deianira- she gets to the other side and get raped by a centaur, Hercules almost kills him (gives him a poison cloak and Deianira give the shirt to Hercules because she thinks it’s a love potion) - Apotheosis of Hercules- dies from the shirt he builds his own funeral pyre and becomes elevated to heaven - Iole and Alcmene tell storieso The birth of Heracles- Alcmene is giving birth , Juno tries to stop her finally her maid tricks Juno pretending that she has already given birth. (Galanthis) turns into a weasel o Dryope- raped by Apollo and turned into tree o Iolaus and sons of Callirhoe- he is way younger than he is supposed to be – Hebe, goddess of youth, took years of Hercules life and gave them to Calliroleo Bybus– restore King Minos – falls inlove with her twin brother and tries to seduce him but eh spurns her and she tries harder- he runs away she chases and collapses and turns into a spring These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o Iphis and Inathe- poor couple husband wants child is a boy and if it’s a girl they have to kill it because a girl would be too expensive. The wife has a daughter and pretends that it’s a boy so they can keep him. A marriage is set up (Iphis) and Isis turns him into a boy so she wont find out. Orpheus cycle- Marries Eurydice but she dies on the wedding night (bitten by a snake) he goes into the underworld and Hades will let her go as long as he doesn’t look back as hes walking out but he looks back so he doesn’t get his wife back. - After he invents homosexuality and gets torn to pieces by maenads - Cyparissus- all come to listen to him sing, trees and animals except cyparisaas – was a beautiful boy Apollo loved but killed a nymph- Ganymede- a mortal boy whom Jupiter loves eagle takes him to heaven where he becomes his cupbearer and gets to stay youthful forever - Hyacinth- Apollo falls in love with him and they hunt together- one day they are practicing discus and accidentally kills him with a blow to the head- dedicates hyacinth flower to him - Pygmalion and galatea- he is disgusted by women so me makes a women out of ivory that is the perfect statue- he falls in love with it and asks the gods to make it become along and she becomes human - Myrrha – falls in love with her father (Cinyras) and tries to kill herself but a nurse helps her – says when he cant have sex for ritual- but a young girls want to but its her daughter so he tries to kill her and she becomes a tree but has a kid Adonis- Venus and Adonis- Venus falls in love with him and reject heaven – tells his to avoid predators but he gets gored by a boar. - Atalanta and Hippomenes- Atalanta can only marry a man who can beat her in a foot race- she is very fast. Hippomenes throws golden apples at her so she gets distracted and he can win. They have sex in a temple so they are turned into lions - The death or Orpheus- Meanads are immune to his song but instead of being charmed they kill him and he is reunited with Eurydice in the underworld - Midas- brings Silenus back to Baccus so he asks that everything he touches turns to gold (food and everything) Apollo gives him donkey ears after judging Apollo and Pans musical competition Troy Cycle - Ceyx and Alcyone- his ship is destroyed and he drowns so his wife is sent a vision of him drowning and he is grief stricken – she wakes up and sees her husbands body floating in the ocean she tries to drown herself but they are turned into kingfishers – birds (makes nests on calm days) - The battle of the Lapiths and Cantaurs- don’t invite them to the wedding because they get really drunk - The death of Achilles- Apollo guides Paris’ arrows, and Achilles dies (Poseidon convincesApollo to help kill