Classical Studies 2200 Lecture 10: Greek-mythology-lecture-10

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Aara Suksi

Document Summary

Can see story pattern we see with heracles: both divine and political inheritance, some aristocratic female sleeps with some mortal king and some god on the same night, gives birth to hero, and. He moves a boulder, uncovering the sword and sandals left there by aegeus: tokens of political birthright, brings them to his father. He travels to athens to claim his place in the ruling family. Europa attracted to bull while she was out picking flowers: gets on the back of the bull (zeus) and travels to crete. Minos - man after which minoan civilization takes its name. Pasiphae is desperate to sleep with the bull, she puts on bull costume, and bull fucks her: she gives birth to minotaur, who is half bull and half man, who is ferocious. Sun god has daughter named aeetes, who has daughter named medea who is now married to king in athens.