The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Athenian Thought
... priestesses of Hera at Argos, enabling the development of dating mechanisms and synchronism across the Greek world. Sparta and Macedon already had king lists in the form of the royal pedigrees reported by Herodotus. Hellanicus’ probable innovation was to preface Athens’ (partly) historical archo ...
... priestesses of Hera at Argos, enabling the development of dating mechanisms and synchronism across the Greek world. Sparta and Macedon already had king lists in the form of the royal pedigrees reported by Herodotus. Hellanicus’ probable innovation was to preface Athens’ (partly) historical archo ...
The Battlefield of History: Megara, Athens, and the Mythic Past
... references to and in other texts, historians have become adept at dating fragments to within decades of their production. Another trait of fragmentary evidence, and fragmentary mythic evidence in particular, is the manner in which 2nd century AD Roman Empire historians incorporated the sources into ...
... references to and in other texts, historians have become adept at dating fragments to within decades of their production. Another trait of fragmentary evidence, and fragmentary mythic evidence in particular, is the manner in which 2nd century AD Roman Empire historians incorporated the sources into ...
Slides
... wanderings (1-116) • A. Backstory (1-8) • B. O sits down in an Athenian “park” (9-27) • C. An Athenian stranger tells them it’s a sacred precinct and orders them out (28-43) • D. O recognizes the fulfillment of an oracle; he has reached his final resting place (44-47) • E. O learns about Athens and ...
... wanderings (1-116) • A. Backstory (1-8) • B. O sits down in an Athenian “park” (9-27) • C. An Athenian stranger tells them it’s a sacred precinct and orders them out (28-43) • D. O recognizes the fulfillment of an oracle; he has reached his final resting place (44-47) • E. O learns about Athens and ...
The Francois Vase
... Thetis and Peleus The Myth: Silver-fotted Thetis, the immortal seagoddess, was kindly and beautiful. Zeus and Poseidon both wanted to marry Thetis, but they heard a prophecy. The son of Thetis would be greater than his father. ...
... Thetis and Peleus The Myth: Silver-fotted Thetis, the immortal seagoddess, was kindly and beautiful. Zeus and Poseidon both wanted to marry Thetis, but they heard a prophecy. The son of Thetis would be greater than his father. ...
The Two Noble Kinsmen - Shakespeare Resource Center
... Knight’s Tale. In this story, the two kinsmen are Palamon and Arcite; they are captured while fighting for Thebes against Athens. While imprisoned, the two cousins find themselves attracted to Emilia, who is the sister of Hippolyta, wife of Theseus. Their professed “eternal friendship” takes a beati ...
... Knight’s Tale. In this story, the two kinsmen are Palamon and Arcite; they are captured while fighting for Thebes against Athens. While imprisoned, the two cousins find themselves attracted to Emilia, who is the sister of Hippolyta, wife of Theseus. Their professed “eternal friendship” takes a beati ...
Apollo`s Oracle at Delphi - Mrs. Sontag
... He had the gift of prophecy. Many people in ancient Greece brought gifts to Apollo, and asked for advice in exchange. Apollo liked the attention. And the gifts. It was all very nice, but it was also exhausting. ...
... He had the gift of prophecy. Many people in ancient Greece brought gifts to Apollo, and asked for advice in exchange. Apollo liked the attention. And the gifts. It was all very nice, but it was also exhausting. ...
lost in the labyrinth
... send young lives as tribute. The story about the maze and the Minotaur was not written down until somewhere between 100 and 200 AD (Anno Domini, or, after the beginning of the Christian Era). This would have been at the very least 1,550 to 1,650 years after the events in the tale could have taken pl ...
... send young lives as tribute. The story about the maze and the Minotaur was not written down until somewhere between 100 and 200 AD (Anno Domini, or, after the beginning of the Christian Era). This would have been at the very least 1,550 to 1,650 years after the events in the tale could have taken pl ...
GH 2_2 - Eleanor Roosevelt High School
... As the situation grew desperate, Aegeus sent messengers to question the Delphic Oracle. The words of the priestess were grim. In order to make up for the death of Androgeus, Aegeus was to grant Minos anything he desired. Minos declared that every nine years Aegeus was to send him seven youths and se ...
... As the situation grew desperate, Aegeus sent messengers to question the Delphic Oracle. The words of the priestess were grim. In order to make up for the death of Androgeus, Aegeus was to grant Minos anything he desired. Minos declared that every nine years Aegeus was to send him seven youths and se ...
Mythology
... When a son of King Minos visited Athens at the olympics and was accidentally killed, King Minos used this as an excuse to attack and destroy the city unless seven Athenian maidens and seven Athenian youths were sent to Crete to be sacrificed every nine years. To save his city, King Aegus of Athens h ...
... When a son of King Minos visited Athens at the olympics and was accidentally killed, King Minos used this as an excuse to attack and destroy the city unless seven Athenian maidens and seven Athenian youths were sent to Crete to be sacrificed every nine years. To save his city, King Aegus of Athens h ...
File - Pi Beta Philes!
... Theseus was the national hero of Athens and the founding father of its most characteristic institutions and values. He was a myth (we say myth, but we must remember that to the ancients, this was regarded as history). A. The unacknowledged son Aegeus, King of Athens, Theseus was raised in the city o ...
... Theseus was the national hero of Athens and the founding father of its most characteristic institutions and values. He was a myth (we say myth, but we must remember that to the ancients, this was regarded as history). A. The unacknowledged son Aegeus, King of Athens, Theseus was raised in the city o ...
Spring 2015
... eaten by the Minotaur-- a monster that lived on They had been doing this for years when Theseus, son of Aegeus, came along. One day it was once again time to send the children to Crete. Prince Theseus said that he was going to go with them and kill the Minotaur to save these children and all the one ...
... eaten by the Minotaur-- a monster that lived on They had been doing this for years when Theseus, son of Aegeus, came along. One day it was once again time to send the children to Crete. Prince Theseus said that he was going to go with them and kill the Minotaur to save these children and all the one ...
The Story of the Minotaur
... ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete, where he hoped to find the palace where a famous Greek myth was set. When Evans and his team unearthed a large complex of interlocking rooms marked with a double-headed axe (called a labrys in the language of nearby Lydia), he was sure he had found the ...
... ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete, where he hoped to find the palace where a famous Greek myth was set. When Evans and his team unearthed a large complex of interlocking rooms marked with a double-headed axe (called a labrys in the language of nearby Lydia), he was sure he had found the ...
L'Arianna
L'Arianna (English: Ariadne) (SV 291), composed in 1607–1608, was the second opera by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. One of the earliest operas, it was first performed on 28 May 1608, as part of the musical festivities for a royal wedding at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga in Mantua. All the music is lost apart from the extended recitative known as ""Lamento d'Arianna"" (""Ariadne's Lament""). The libretto, which survives complete, was written in eight scenes by Ottavio Rinuccini, who used Ovid's Heroides and other classical sources to relate the story of Ariadne's abandonment by Theseus on the island of Naxos and her subsequent elevation as bride to the god Bacchus.The opera was composed under severe pressure of time; the composer later said that the effort of creating it almost killed him. The initial performance, produced with lavish and innovative special effects, was highly praised, and the work was equally well received in Venice when it was revived under the composer's direction in 1640 as the inaugural work for the Teatro San Moisè.Rinuccini's libretto is available in a number of editions. The music of the ""Lamento"" survives because it was published by Monteverdi, in several different versions, independently from the opera. This fragment became a highly influential musical work and was widely imitated; the ""expressive lament"" became an integral feature of Italian opera for much of the 17th century. In recent years the ""Lamento"" has become popular as a concert and recital piece and has been frequently recorded. A new completion of the ""Lamento"", which includes a setting of the surviving texts of the choruses to new music by Scottish composer Gareth Wilson (b. 1976), was performed at King's College, London University, on 29 November 2013, the 370th anniversary of Monteverdi's death.