Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Quiz #1 Studying

Actaeon (page 65)

  • Grandson of Cadmus
  • hunter
  • Sees Diana bathing and is turned into a deer as punishment.  He is then mauled and killed by his own dogs and fellow hunters.
Callisto (page 43)

  • Raped by Jove in Diana's form. 
  • Attempts to rejoin Diana's group of girls, but is kicked out when they discover that she is pregnant. 
  • After giving birth to her son Arcas, Juno turns her into a bear as punishment for Jove raping her. 
  • Years later, Arcas is hunting when he comes across his mother Callisto as a bear. 
  • They are both saved by Jove who places them as stars in the sky. 
Semele (page 69)

  • One of the daughters of Cadmus and Harmony.
  • Semele and Jove are carrying out an affair when Juno finds out and tricks Semele to ask Jove for a favor. 
  • She asks him to revel his true self to her, and Gods can not go back on their promises, so Jove does.  This causes her to burn up and die. 
  • Jove, however, takes her unborn child and places it within his thigh where it develops and is born as Bacchus/Dionysus. 
  • Dionysus takes Hestia's place in the 12 Olympian gods, making him a god. 
Cadmus (page 61)
  • After his sister Europa, is taken by Jove, he is sent to find her and told not to come back without her. 
  • Unable to find her, he asks Apollo what to do and is told to follow a cow and build a city where it lays down. He then builds the city Thebes, and kills the dragon/serpent that threatens his city.  He plants the monsters teeth from which grow into soldiers. 
  • Marries Harmonia and they have four unlucky daughters.
Tiresias (page 71)
  • Sees two snakes copulating and puts his staff in between them, this changes him into a woman. 
  • After spending seven years as a women he comes upon two more snakes, and separates them again, causing him to change back into a man. 
  • Juno and Jove later come to him, wanting to know who has more fun making love, men or women. 
  • Tiresias says women do, which enrages Juno causing her to blind him. 
  • Jove then gives him the gift of prophecy because he can't undo Juno's work. 
Narcissus and Echo (page 72)
  • Narcissus was incredibly proud and disdained those that loved him. Nemesis saw this and drew him to a pool where he fell in love with his reflection. Unable to leave his reflection, he wastes away and dies. 
  • Echo was a young girl who fell in love with Narcissus's looks, and after being rejected by him she wastes away until she is nothing but a voice repeating the last things it hears. 
Pentheus (page 83)
  • Laughed at the gods
  • King of Thebes
  • Dionysus came and began to insight chaos in the city, causing Pentheus to order his arrest. However, Dionysus makes the guards believe that they are leading a bull into the prison.  
  • Pentheus then asks Dionysus for a favor, he wants to know what goes on at Dionysus women only celebrations. 
  • Dionysus agrees, and convinces Pentheus to dress up as a women.
  • At the celebration the other women realize Pentheus is a man and attack him, Sparagmos - the act of sacrifice by dismemberment. 
  • His head is taken by his mother, a daughter of Cadmus. 

1 comment:

  1. I was planning on making something like this, nice to see someone beat me to the punch.

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