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04/17/2008

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perseus
Definition

beats medusa

saves andromeda

wars over andromeda and turns everyone to stone with medusa's head 

claim: phineus' engagement to andromeda was annulled when she was sentenced to death. 

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phineus
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andromeda
Definition
chained to a rock and perseus saves
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muses
Definition

compete with minerva

tell stories: pluto/prosperina/ceres, arethusa/alpheus, triptolemus/lyncus

beat minerva and she turns them into magpies 

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arethusa
Definition
pursued by alpheus, Diana helped her get away
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alpheus
Definition
pursued arethusa but didn't get her
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triptolemus
Definition
gets seeds from Ceres to restore crops
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Lyncus
Definition
king who tried to kill Triptolemus, Ceres turns him into a lynx
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Arachne
Definition

weaves tapestry of Gods' raping mortals

gets changed into a spider by Minerva 

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Europa
Definition
raped by Jove as bull
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Asterie
Definition
raped by Jove as eagle
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Leda
Definition
raped by Jove as swan
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Niobe
Definition
has seven children and says their better than Latona/Leto's children. Artemis and Apollo, consequently, kill all her fourteen children and turns her to stone
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men of Lycia
Definition
refused drink to Leto and she turned them into frogs.
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Marsyas
Definition
flute challenges Apollo, gets flayed and tears form river.
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Orithyia
Definition
marries to Boreas, sons end up having wings
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Cephalus
Definition

married to Procris

kills her with spear that can't miss

his dog turns to stone 

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Procris
Definition
suspicious wife gets hit by Cephalus' spear
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Scylla
Definition

betrayed her father Nisus for the king she loved, Minos and cut off the lock of her father's hair that held his power.

gets changed into a bird. 

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Nisus
Definition
Scylla's dad who, having his hair taken, is turned into a bird and consequently turns her into a bird.
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Minos
Definition

king who scorns Scylla for her trying to help him out (pietas)

wife has minotaur child by a bull that he wouldn't sacrifice. 

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Pasiphae
Definition

mino's wife, who has sex with the bull 

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Theseus
Definition

kills minotaur with ariadne's help of spool

father of hippolytus 

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Ariadne
Definition

gives Theseus a spool to find his way out of the labryinth

He ditches her on an island later and Bacchus changes her into a constellation 

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partridge in Daedalus story
Definition

former brilliant apprentice of Daedalus

Daedalus threw him off a temple

in descent was changed into partridge

is happy at Icarus' death 

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meleager
Definition

kills boar with atalanta's help and everyone gets pissed cuz he gives her the hide. He kills them all.

Althaea, his mom, burns log that's linked to his mortality and it kills him. 

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atalanta
Definition

beloved of meleager

good hunter

she's a woman 

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althaea
Definition
kills meleager and then kills self in grief
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meleager's sisters
Definition

very distraught over his death

diana turns them into guinea hens 

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achelous
Definition

shapechanging river god who tells theseus stories

the girl he loved was thrown off a cliff and changed into an island 

competed with Herakles for Deianira's hand. Herakles ripped off one of his horns, limiting his ability to shapechange. 

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Baucis and Philemon
Definition

super pietas pair

poor but give Jove and Mercury everything they have

Jove and Mercury kill everyone else and make their place a temple

gives them one wish and they wish to die at the same time

they turn into trees when they die 

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erysichthon
Definition

chops down nymph tree and Ceres sicks hunger on him
he sells his wife and everything for food

ends up eating himself 

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mestra
Definition
erysichthon's wife who gets sold and gets the power to change appearance so she can escape, then keep selling herself
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deianira
Definition
herakles wife who was almost raped by nessus, then ended up killing herakles with nessus' blood on accident because she thought it was a love potion.
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lichas
Definition

the messenger who gives herakles the shirt with nessus blood on it

herakles throws him off a cliff 

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alcmena
Definition

mother of herakles

juno tries to kill her in childbirth, but it doesn't work because she gets distracted by galanthis

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galanthis
Definition

distracts the god of child-bearing

and juno turns him into weasel 

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dryope
Definition
turned into a tree when she picked flowers from a nymph tree
Term
caunus
Definition
brother who rejects incestuous advances of byblis
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byblis
Definition
wants to incest all over caunus and, chasing him, trips and turns into a fountain
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iphis
Definition

born a girl but the dad wanted to kill it if it was a girl cuz they were poor.

the mom keeps it and raises it as a boy

set to wed Ianthe later and the mom prays and iphis turns into a boy. 

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Ianthe
Definition
girl who weds Iphis
Term
orpheus
Definition

musician who had to save his wife from hell but failed when he looked back

won't love women anymore, the lovers of bacchus kill him

his head and lyre still sing and swim to lesbos 

happier because he's in hell with his wife. 

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eurydice
Definition
wife of orpheus in underworld
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Cyparissus
Definition
boy lover of Orpheus whose horse is killed and in grief gets transformed into cypress tree
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Ganymede
Definition

Jove's boylover that he deified

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Hyacinthus
Definition

played discus with Apollo and Apollo kills him on accident

his blood turns into hyacinth flowers 

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cinryas
Definition
father of myrrha who gets incest on him and then when he finds out its her, tries to kill her
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 myrrha
Definition

incests her father cinryas

when running away from his killing her, she turns into myrrh tree which later births adonis 

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adonis
Definition

beautiful man who venus loves

venus tells him not to hunt because he'll get hurt

when she's not there, he gets killed by boar

she transforms him into anemone flower 

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hippomenes
Definition

venus helped him beat atalanta in footrace

he forgets to sacrifice, venus makes them do it in a temple

juno gets pissed and turns them into lions 

 

Term
midas
Definition

lets Bacchus's friend Silenus go: so Bacchus gives him one wish

he wishes to turn everything he touches into gold

this wish sucks, so he reverses it by washing in specific waters

becomes follower of Pan, and has to judge in contest with Apollo

Says Pan wins and Apollo gives him ears of an ass 

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Daedalion
Definition

sad when daughter died and threw self off cliff

gods turn him into hawk 

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ceyx
Definition

goes to oracle of apollo and ship breaks and he drowns

wife finds him on shore and kisses him, he turns into bird 

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alcyone
Definition
wife of ceyx, turns into bird when she sees him dead on beach
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aesacus
Definition

throws self off cliff when lover hesperia dies

turned into bird 

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caenis
Definition

neptune rapes and gives her one wish

she wishes to be turned into a man (Caeneus) so she won't be raped ever 

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ulysses' argument for armor
Definition

persuaded Achilles to join fight

brains behind war

emphasizes that ajax was just a warrior, not strategian 

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ajax's argument for armor
Definition

emphasizes role in battling Hector

 Achille's cousin

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Hecuba
Definition
turned into dog when she tries to avenge death of her children
Term
Galatea
Definition

loves Acis and loved by Polyphemus

rejects Polyphemus 

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Acis
Definition
Polyphemus kills him, and gets turned into river god
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Polyphemus
Definition
kills Acis because he loves Galatea but he's ugly
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Glaucus
Definition

river god, loves Scylla and tries to get Circe to help him with magic

Circe falls in love with him 

Term
Circe
Definition

falls in love Glaucus

poisons Scylla's pool and this turns her into the monster 

Term
Scylla (Odyssey version)
Definition
gets turned into a monster by Circe because Glaucus loves her
Term
Sibyl
Definition

Apollo gave her a wish once

she wished for eternal life but forgets youth

he gives it to her and says if she loves him he will give her eternal youth

she refuses, and when she meets Aeneas is a really old bitch 

Term
Picus
Definition

loves Canens the nymph

Circe tries to seduce him, he refuses

Circe turns him into a woodpecker 

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Canens
Definition
nymph who, when Picus dies, cries until she melts into a puddle
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Egeria
Definition
Numa's wife who, in grief, is tranformed into a fountain
Term
Hippolytus
Definition

in addition to all the shit with Phaedra, was restored to life and must live/hide in forest so people don't recognize him

 

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Cipus
Definition

grows horns and gets prophecy that he can rule Rome if he goes there

goes, with a crown on his head, tells them a man with horns has the power to enslave them all, and takes his crown off

He is hailed since he sacrificed the chance to rule by being an asshole

 

Term
Aesculapius
Definition

god of healing who transforms into snake and cures Rome of plague

revives Hippolytus 

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Phaethon
Definition

tries to drive the chariot of his father, Helios

not good at it and drives too close and burns stuff

Jove strikes him with a thunderbolt and he dies 

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Pyramus
Definition
equivalent to Romeo
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Thisbe
Definition

equivalent to Juliet

listens at crack in wall 

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