Schedule

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Schedule

• Myth and Metaphor paper due Monday, May 11 (3rd
  hr.Friday May 15)
• For Wednesday Read Perseus
• For Thursday Read Thesesus
• For Friday read Hercules and Atalanta
• Next Tuesday Test on the Heroes.

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Athamus

• Tired of his first wife Nephele and put her away
• children Phrixus and Helle
• Married Princess Ino

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Ino

• Parched seed
• Bribed messenger from oracle
• Lie to sacrifice children for harvest to grow

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Golden Ram

• Swooped down and saved both children
• Helle fell into water Hellespont
• Phrixus taken to Colchis

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King Aetes

• Allows Phrixus to marry his daughter
• Phrixus sacrifices the golden ram and it is hung
  in the Temple of Mars/ Sacred Grove

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Meanwhile

• Phrixuss uncle, Aeson is usurped by Pelias
• Jason sent away to safety
• Returns later to demand kingdom back from Pelias
• Pelias had been warned of a man with one sandal.

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Jasons Quest

• Bring back the golden fleece and bury Phrixus
  properly, then you will receive kingdom.

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Argonauts

• Lemnian women
• Hylas Lost
• Harpies
• Clashing rocks
• AmazonWomen
• Colchis and Medea
• Scylla and Charybdis
• Talus

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Which God looked after Jason?

• Hera
• She asked Aphrodite to make Medea, the daughter
  of Aetes, to fall in love with Jason.
• Gave him potion to complete her fathers task
• -yoke the bull
• Sow field with dragons teeth
• Fight soldiers that spring up from teeth

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Medeas conflict

• Help stranger
• Or stay loyal to family
• She wept over the treachery to her father
• Charmed the serpent to sleep, Jason retrieved the
  fleece and promised to marry Medea when they
  returned to Greece.
• Killed brother who was pursuing the Argo

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Back Home

• Pelias forced Jasons father to kill himself
• Medea tricked daughters into cutting up Pelias
• All the good and evil she did was for Jason.
• Fled to Corinth
• Jason betrays Medea
• P.133-134
• Medea sends robe to Princess of Corinth
• Kills children
• Rides away in chariot and lives happily ever
  after.

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What do we Learn?
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