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Mythology Final
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28
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Undergraduate 4
05/06/2009

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Polydegmon
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reciever of many; epithet for Hades
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Polyxenos
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host to many; epithet for Hades
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Psyche
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'breath' associate with soul
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Tiresias
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Famous seer who visits Odysseus from the Underworld; warns of dangers ahead and the nature of death
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Necromany
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Summon the dead
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Tantalus
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tested the gods omniscience by serving them his own son; punishment in Tartarus: stands in a lake but can never drink, tree above but can never eat the fruit
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Sisyphus
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Tricked death by capturing him and then escaping to the world of living; punishment in Tartarus: push boulder over a hill but always rolls down again
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Elysian Fields
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Afterlife on Earth for a blessed few aristocrats
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Orpheus
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Went to retrieve his love, Eurydice, in the underworld. Hades allowed her to leave as long as he did not look back. He did and she remained dead. invented homosexuality
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Eurydice
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bride of Orpheus, killed by a serpant, remained in Underworld
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Orphism
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6th c. teaching about nature and desting; hope for salvation in afterlife; reincarnation of the soul though austerity, knowledge, and effort
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Pythagoras
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Made philosophical claim that the essence of reality resides in mystical relation among numbers, proportions, and measures
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Charon
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ferryman to the underworld
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Ixion
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King who lusted after Hera, for fun Zeus made a cloud in Hera's image; Ixion pounced but seed feel to the ground creating Centaurus (father of centaurs)
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Pelias
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son of Poseidon and Jason's grandmother; arrogant and intolerant; sends Jason to recover the golden fleece
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Aeson
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Jason's father; imprisoned and eventually killed by his half brother, Pelias
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Argo
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Jason and the Argonauts' ship: largest ship ever made, fits 50 men, magic speaking beam cut from Zeus' oak tree
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Lemnos
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Island populated by women who had all killed their husbands; Jason and argonauts delay for 1 year on the island
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Phineus
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King who was plagued by harpies that continuously stole his food; in payment for Jason killing the Harpies he reveals the future course of their adventure
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Symple Gades
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'crashing rocks' which barred access to the Black Sea; release a dove, if it could get through then so could the Argo
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Cholchis
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Island home to Medea and Aeetes, location of the golden fleece
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Medea
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sorceress and daughter of King Aeetes, falls in love with Jason, helps him steal the golden fleece
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Apsyrtus
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Medea's half brother, Medea cuts him into pieces and throws them into the sea
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Talus
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Bronze giant given to Europa from Zeus, had a single vein of ichor replenished in heel. Crashing boluders on Crete, Medea uses evil eye causing Talus to strike his ankle and divine blood flows out
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Meleagar
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prince of Aetolia, Calydonian Boar Hunt
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Atlanta
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famous female athlete from Arcadia, raised by hunters
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Pelops
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Son of Tantalus; who cut him up and shoulder eaten by Demeter, marries Hippodamia
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Oenomaus
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King and father of Hippodamia, in love with his daughter kills all suitors but killed by Pelops
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