CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture 3: Athens and Attica.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLASSICS 2D03
• Professor: Graeme Ward

Document Summary

Explore this through theseus"s relationship with athens: athens was not a great city right off the bat to get to that place, they beefed up their history and made their heroes more important. * gods and heroes relation to which areas this will be a focus of ours through the rest of the course. Not descended from invading groups over greece"s history (e. g. , dorians or heraclidae ) Groups used myth to strengthen their interactions. Erichthonius serpent king cathonic from the earth from the sperm of ___ who tried to rape athena. Mother: aethra of troezen, priestess of poseidon. Pittheus, king of troezen is her father. Wives/lovers: ariadne; antiope (mother of hippolytus); phaedra is an abductor of women many lives. All of the key elements for a good story. Pittheus, king of troezen takes aegeus in. If aethra has a boy, he must be raised without knowing his father"s name.