Classical Mythology
THE THEBAN SAGA 399 who had attacked his own city. To leave the dead unburied was an offense against the gods, for it was the re ...
400 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS nices as a bribe. Alcmaeon, one of his sons, carried out these commands ten years later ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 401 f They say that Jupiter once had driven away his serious worries with nectar and was joking with Juno, sayin ...
402 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Oedipus still cannot believe Tiresias and goads him into telling him the truth even mor ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 403 There are several variants of the riddle and its answer. The shortest (Apollodorus 3. 53-54) is given here. ...
CHAPTER 18 THE MYCENAEAN SAGA The legends of Mycenae are particularly concerned with the House of Atreus and the greatest of its ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 405 The existence of these myths is evidence enough that in the distant past some form of cannibalism once un ...
Zeus I Tantalus Oenomaus o CD Dioscuri Niobe r Pelopsi m. Hippodamia Zeus Tyndareus 1^ Helen *H h- Clytemnestra m. Agamemnon I I ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 407 This version is simpler and probably older than the better-known one, ac- cording to which Pelops bribed ...
408 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Adrastus and Thyestes at Sicyon. Apulian red-figure krater by the Darius painter, ca. 3 ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 409 the next generation. The son of Atreus, Agamemnon, succeeded his father as king of Mycenae. He married Cl ...
410 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The Death of Agamemnon. Attic red-figure krater, possibly by the Dokimasia painter, ca. ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 411 to atone for, and one where defense is far away.... Oh, wretched woman, is this your purpose? As you wash ...
(^412) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS ORESTES AND ELECTRA According to Aeschylus, Orestes was away from Mycenae at the tim ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 413 ...
414 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS to many authors, playwrights, and poets since his time (including Eugene O'Neill and T. ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 415 machina, with typically Euripidean philosophical ambiguity, tells us that Apollo is wise but that his ord ...
416 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE LEGEND The legend of the Oresteia has inspired many works of lit ...
THE MYCENAEAN SAGA 417 his sister Electra, and the murder of their mother Clytemnestra and her lover and husband Aegisthus. As h ...
(^418) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS learn that it was this Cilissa who nursed and cared for Orestes when he was a baby a ...
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