CLASS 40 Study Guide - Final Guide: Laius, Oedipus Complex, Homeric Hymns
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Zeus chains prometheus and has an eagle come and eat his liver everyday. Prometheus tricks zeus with the bones and fat of an ox: insults zeus with a false sacrifice, as a punishment, zeus chains prometheus to a rock and an eagle comes and eats out his liver every day. Prometheus steals fire and delivers to mortals: zeus punishes morals by creating woman. Pandora opens a jar and releases all evils onto the world as hope remains in the jar. Creation of adam, adam"s rib used to form woman, eve. Adam and eve are cursed and banned from eden: women suffer childbirth and serve husbands, men cursed to work. Medea"s husband, jason, has abandoned her and their two children for glauce, the daughter of. Creon fears medea"s revenge and banishes her and her children. Medea asks for one more day in corinth in which she plans to kill creon, glauce, and jason.
