CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pherae, Gluten, Funeral Pyre
24 Oct 2014
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Associated with argos, tiryns and trachis (s. thessaly) Old hero, common across aegean and beyond. Only hero that truly travels around the world. There is imagery of him all around the world idea of him is universal. Normally the mother sleeps with the god and the man. Amphritryon lay all night long with his chaste wife, delighting in the gifts of golden aphrodite . Zeus a mortal of my blood will be born today who shall rule over all men . Hera speeds up the birth of eurystheus, son of sthenelus (a grandson of zeus) So he is born before heracles and messes up the oath of zeus. E is weak, but because of zeus"s boast will be a king and will rule. Separates h from other heroes, because he is never king. Hera sends snakes to strangle the infant the baby strangles the snakes. Hera tries to torment him for most of his life.
