GRST 209 Lecture 1: Greek and Roman 209

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 209
• Professor: Bryan Natali

Document Summary

Myths of the argive plain: rich bronze age area, tiryns-perseus was king of. Tiryns when he founded mycenae, argos not important in bronze age, but often is confused in myth with mycenae which was. The river god inachus and melia-parents of io. Io-ancestor of 3 great dynasties: the houses of argos, crete, and thebes. Zeus" passion and hera"s jealousy (spots mysterious cloud) Ionian sea, byzantium- the bosporus cow-crossing , the caucasus. Gives birth to epaphus he who has been touched . Lybia + poseidon are parents of: agenor (ancestor to the houses of crete and thebes), belus (ancestor of perseus and royal house of argos, means. Belus has two sons: aegyptus, who rules in arabia, danaus, who rules in. They flee to argos t prevent proposed marriages. The sons of aegyptus eventually marry the danaids. Only hypermnestra spared her husband lynceus- all but one motif. His son abas has twins (who hate each other)