Final Exam Notes from Module 13 - 22

Perseus

• founder of city Argos is Phoronus
• mainly worshipped Hera
• Perseus slays Medusa
• gets help from Hermes and Athena
• gets cap of invisibility, winged sandals, pouch from Nypmhs
• gets Scimitar from Hermes

Gorgons

• turn things to stone that look at their faces
• Athena tells Perseus to look at Gorgon’s through a shield

Return Home

• Perseus uses Medusa’s head to turn Polydectes and his followers to stone
• Perseus follows Acrisius to Larissa in Thessaly and eventually kills him accidentally

Belerophon

• Pegasus is born from the body of Medus when she is slain
• Bellerophon is a hero of Corinth
• Tobates sends him to kill the Chimaera lion, goat, and back of serpent, kill great warriors the Solymi and the Amazons, and men arranged by king Iobates
• tries to complete the tasks but dies trying to fly too high with the horse
• motif mortal punished or harmed for trying to rise beyond his station to the level of immortals

Theseus

• son of Poseidon

Six Labours

• Epidaurarus kills Periphetes, son of Hephaestus
• in Corinth he kills the robber Sinis
• near the village Crommyon he kills a great sow
• at the cliffs of Sciron he kills Sciron
• at Elieusis he kills Cercyon throwing him in the Earth
• between Eleusis and Athens he kills Procrustes
• most famous labour was killing the minotaur

Arrival in Athens and the Minotaur

• Theseus becomes the successor to Aegeus
• Minos was son of Zeus and Europa