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Hercules ● Father the immortal Zeus and his mother was mortal her name is Alcmene ● Went through "Twelve Labours" to win immortality ● Went mad and killed his wife and kids causing him to lose his immortality and put through a series of punishments were his was assassinated ● This allusion is seen in Shakespeare's Hamlet where prince hamlet kills his father in law causing his soon to be wife to commit suicide Sources "Hercules." Allusions. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015. "Heracles | Hercules." Heracles | Hercules. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Sept. 2015. Antigone ● Daughter of Oedipus ● Sentenced to death by King Creon for going against him and burying her deceased brother Polyneicius ● Hung herself in a cave ● Her love Haemon King Creon's son committed suicide along her ● This allusion is seen in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet where they can't be together because of their family's conflicts which is what happens with her, Haemon and her can't share their love so they both prefer death. Sources "Antigone." Allusions. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015. Britannica.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Sept. 2015. Trojan War ● In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably through Homer's Iliad. The Iliad relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy; the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the war's heroes. Other parts of the war are described in a cycle of epic poems, which have survived through fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets including Virgil and Ovid. The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple, sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest". Zeus sent the goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult. After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of the women and children whom they kept or sold as slaves) and desecrated the temples, thus earning the gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern­day Italy. The ancient Greeks treated the Trojan War as a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC and believed that Troy was located near the Dardanelles in what is now Turkey. As of the mid­19th century, both the war and the city were widely believed to be non­historical. In 1868, however, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann met Frank Calvert, who convinced Schliemann that Troy was at Hissarlik and Schliemann took over Calvert's excavations on property belonging to Calvert;this claim is now accepted by most scholars. Whether there is any historical reality behind the Trojan War is an open question. Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age. Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War are derived from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th centuries BC, often preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes, 1194–1184 BC, which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of Troy VIIa. "Trojan War." ­ Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Sept. 2015. "Trojan War." Allusions. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2015. Agamemnon ● Became king of Mycenae ● Took refuge with Tyndareus ● Leader of the Trojan war ● Won his father’s kingdom back with the help of Menelaus and Tyndareus ● To appease the wrath of Artemis he sacrificed one of his daughters ● Was killed by his cousin and his lover Sources ● 1. Britanica.com ○ www.britanica.com/topic/Agamemnon­Greek­mythology ● 2. Agamemnon in Greek Mythology ○ http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/agamemnon/a/Agamemnon.htm Bacchus ●
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“Bacca” meaning berry God of wine, good cheer, hilarity, mirth and revels Role and function is being god of wine and drama ­Greek name is Dionysus ­also known as liber ­Son of Zeus and Semele (she was mortal) , died in the presence of zeus therefore he sewed the baby onto his thigh in order to give birth to him 9 months later ● ­Origins are unknown, most are referred to as myths Sources ● 1. Britanica.com ○ http://www.britannica.com/topic/Dionysus ● 2. Bacchus ­ Roman God of Wine ○ ​
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N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Sept. 2015. Oedipus­King of Thebes Sources: http://www.britannica.com/topic/Oedipus­Greek­mythology ● killed his father married his mother and became king ● when became aware his mother / wife hanged herself jocasta) ● Oedipus died at Colonus near Athens, where he was swallowed into the earth and became a guardian hero of the land. ● he figure out the Sphinx's Riddle and Oedipus killed the Sphinx Odysseus­king of Ithaca Sources: http://www.britannica.com/topic/Odysseus http://www.pantheon.org/articles/o/odysseus.html ● man of outstanding wisdom and shrewdness, eloquence, resourcefulness, courage, and endurance ● He was one of the most prominent Greek leaders in the Trojan War, and was the hero of Homer's Odyssey. He was known for his cleverness and cunning, and for his eloquence as a speaker. Odysseus was one of the original suitors of Helen of Troy. ● “The theme of Odysseus’ life can most easily be summed up as “Brains over
Brawn” and sheer determination to a cause. Through every perilous adventure
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. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Sept. 2015. Midas Midas was king of Phrygia who was famous for turning everything he touched gold and for his donkey ears, which were his punishment for judging Pan as the better musician than Apollo. So it is said that one day Midas was walking around his garden and either found the wise satyr Silenus wandering drunk or Midas had drugged Silenus in order to get his attention. Either way Midas gave him food and drink to restore his sobriety and sent him to Dionysos, the god of wine, who then grant him one wish. Midas was already very wealthy but still chose to have everything he touch turn to gold. When he put his power to the test, it worked perfectly. Everything, including trees, stones, and flowers, was turned gold as soon as he touched them. But Midas soon realized the consequence that came with the gift. He couldn’t eat because as soon as the food reached his mouth, it too turned into gold. Fortunately, when Midas went looking for Dionysos to reverse the curse, Dionysos told him to wash it away in the river Pactolus in Lydia. But Midas was to encounter another deity, Apollo, who was challenging Pan to a musical contest. When Midas said that Pan was the better musician, Apollo gave him ears of an ass and Midas was to forever wear a turban. No one but his barber knew this fact. But the barber couldn't keep the lie so he dug a hole and whispered into it “Midas has ass’s ears.” From that spot grew reeds and whenever it was windy they whispered “Midas has ass’s ears.” "MIDAS." ​
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>. Leda and the Swan Leda was an important wife and mother. She was the wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, and mother to the famous beauty Helen, the heroine Clytemnestra, and the twins Castor and Polydeuces, who were also known as Dioscuri. Leda was seduced or raped by Zeus, who was disguised as a swan. In some versions, Helen was born from an egg because her father Zeus appeared as a swan when he impregnated Leda or Helen’s real mother was the goddess Nemesis. In other versions, Zeus seduced or raped Leda the same night she slept with her husband Tyndareus and that is why one of the twins, Polydeuces, is Zeus’s and the other, Castor, is Tyndareus’s. "Leda in Greek Mythology." ​
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>. Pandora Pandora was the first woman made by the gods out of clay. Zeus commanded the craftsmanship god, Hephaestus, to create her. Many gods gave her talents: Aphrodite with beauty, Apollo with music, Hermes with persuasion and so forth. All these gifts given to her is why she was named Pandora “all­gifted”. When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus delivered Pandora to Prometheus’s brother Epimetheus as a bride. Zeus had given Pandora a wedding present, a jar, which she was not to open under any circumstances. But her curiosity got the best of it and so she opened it unraveling all the evil the jar contained and unleashing it to plague mankind. She quickly tried to close it but left only one thing in the jar, which was Hope. Pandora's daughter Pyrrha was the first­born mortal child. She and her husband Deukalion were the only ones who survived the Great Deluge and to repopulate the earth they each had to cast stones over their shoulder. Those cast by Deukalion formed men, and those of Pyrrha formed women. "Pandora." Web. 8 Sept. 2015. <​
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