Classical Mythology
ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 369 like motifs common to folktale: conjugal devotion, the journey to Hade ...
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PART TWO The Greek Sagas GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS ...
INTRODUCTION Universal themes are persistent in the myths of Greek gods, who present arche- typal images of fundamental human tr ...
INTRODUCTION 373 characterization of heroes in all periods of mythological creation. The quests of Perseus, Odysseus, and Aeneas ...
374 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The richest of these cities, Mycenae, gave its name to the period, and it was the king ...
CHAPTER 17 THE THEBAN SAGA THE FOUNDING OF THEBES The historical Thebes was the leading city of Boeotia, the plainland area of c ...
376 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The Rape ofEuropa. Limestone metope from Selinus, ca. 540 B.c.; height 58 in. Europa ri ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 377 Agenor's daughter [Europa] wondered at the bull's beauty, amazed that he did not threaten to attack, yet, ge ...
(^378) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS CADMUS, FOUNDER OF THEBES Meanwhile Cadmus, Europa's brother, set out to find her an ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 379 Cadmus 6. Laius Pentheus 7. Oedipus (regency of Creon) Labdacus 8. Eteocles Lycus 9. Creon Zethus and Amphi ...
380 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS Chthonius I r^ i Dirce m. Lycus Nycteus H-i I I Zeus m. Antiope Nycteis (m. Polydorus) ...
Cadmus m. Harmonia (^00 00) I Ino m. Athamas Learchus Autonoƫ m. Aristaeus Melicertes Actaeon Semele m.Zeus Agave m. Echion Dion ...
(^382) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS through his ankles. The servant entrusted with the task pitied the baby, and in- ste ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 383 middle of my head and struck me with the two-pronged goad. But he paid for this with interest; struck prompt ...
384 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 385 for the servant to whom Laius had given his infant son to be exposed on Mt. Cithaeron. This man was also the ...
(^386) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The horror of Oedipus' predicament is powerfully expressed in the stark di- alogue, ...
THE THEBAN SAGA 387 The Chorus, speaking for ordinary citizens of Thebes (or of any Greek city that honored the gods), is appall ...
(^388) THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS The drama begins with Oedipus, after years of wandering as an exile and beggar, comi ...
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