CLA 2323 Lecture 7: CLA2323 lecture notes.Nov 9
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Kastor and polydeukes [castor and polydeuces]: buxton pp. p. 98 top, p. 193. Also known as castor and pollux or the dioscuri [dioskouroi] Theseus attacks the minotaur in the labyrinth, in a painted scene on an athenian cup of about 510 b. c. The monster"s use of a rock as weapon identifies him as an enemy of civilization (by ancient greek artistic convention): Sources include plutarch"s life of theseus (circa 100 a. d. ), apollodorus (circa 125 a. d. ), and euripides" stage tragedy hippolytus (428 b. c. ). Also euripides" suppliant women (circa 422 b. c. ) and heracles insane (circa. ), and sophocles" oedipus at colonus (401 b. c. Theseus is the only substantial athenian hero of greek mythology. Without doubt, the long, busy theseus myth that we inherit is partly a product of athenian government propaganda and myth-making in the 500s . By the mid-400s b. c. , under its statesman pericles, athens was the richest and most powerful.
