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The Spartan Saga
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Atlas = PleionePrometheusEpimetheus
Gaia (Earth)
Uranus (Heaven)
Iapetus (Titan) = Clymene
Oceanus = Tethys
Themis Pluto
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The Pleiades
• When the sisters died, they were placed amongst the stars
• Visible in Greece from May to November• Signal the farming and sailing seasons
Alcyone Merope Celaeno Electra
Sterope Taygete Maia
Atlas = Pleione
= Zeus
Hermes
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Atlas = Pleione
Taygete = Zeus
Sparta = Lacedaemon
• Eurotas, grandson of Lelex, an autochthon.– Without a male heir, he was the last of his line.
• Lacedaemon– Founded Sparta (named for his wife)
• The people are called Lacedaemonians• The lambda Λ is always on their shields
Eurotas
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Sparta
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Sparta
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• Amylcas was second king of Sparta• Hyacinthus was loved by Apollo• Apollo killed him accidentally• Turned him into a flower
Diomede = Amylcas Eurydice = Acrisius
Hyacinthus Cynortas
Sparta = Lacedaemon
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• Hyacinthus
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• Merry Joseph Blondel
• (1781 – 1853)
• la muerte de jacinto
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Diomede = Amylcas Eurydice = Acrisius
Hyacinthus Cynortas Perseus
Oebalus = Gorgophone
Sparta = Lacedaemon
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Perieres = Gorgophone
Arsinoe = Apollo
Aesculapius
Leucippus
• Gorgophone was first married to Perieres, a son of Aeolus and Enarete.
• This is an alternative genealogy!
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Asclepius (Aesculapius)
• Alternative: Son of Apollo and Coronis
• Raised by Cheiron, the centaur– Taught the art of healing
• A snake, wound on a staff, brought Asclepius healing herbs
• Zeus killed him so that humans would not escape death
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Asclepius
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Seeking a cure in the temple of Asclepius
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Oebalus = Gorgophone
Tyndarius = Leda = Zeus
CastorClytemnestra HelenPollux
• Althernative:
• Zeus raped Nemesis and she lay an egg
• Leda found the egg and when Helen hatched Leda raised her as her own daughter
• Helen and Theseus
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The Dioscuri
• Rape of Helen:– Theseus abducted Helen when she was
underage.
– Castor and Pollux attacked Athens
– Found Helen at Aphidnae
– Revealed by Academus• His land was a mile north of Athens
• A shrine to Academus was called the Academy
• Plato built his school there.
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Dioscuri
• Calydonian Boar Hunt• Voyage of the Argo
– Stars over the heads of the Dioscuri
• The Aphareidae– Idas and Lyncaeus: cheated the Dioscuri– In the war Castor was killed– Pollux asked Zeus that he might die with
his brother.– Both elevated to the heavens
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Castorand
Pollux
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Temple of the Dioscuri in Rome
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Gemini
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Gemini
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Agamemnon
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• Tantalus was king of Phrygia (or other)– But not Argos: although a more common version, it
doesn’t work.
• Tantalus was entrusted with Zeus’ secrets
• Revealed the secrets and was cast into Hades
Rhea = Cronos = ?
Tantalus = Dione
Zeus = Pluto
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• Pelops was expelled from Phrygia by Ilus
• Moved to Elis, ruled by Oenomaus, father of Hippodameia
• Pelops won Hippodameia in a chariot race
• Became king of Elis
• The Peloponnese is named for him
Tantalus = Dione
Pelops = Hippodameia
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Phrygia
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• Atreus and Thyestes fled Elis after they killed their half brother
• Sthenelus of Mycenae took them in
• After the death of Eurystheus, Atreus became king of Mycenae
Atreus Thyestes Nicippe = Sthenelus
Pelops = Hippodameia
Aegisthus
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Aerope = Atreus Thyestes Nicippe
Clytemnestra = Agamemnon Menelaus = Helen
Pelops = Hippodameia
• Atreus and Thyestes in a bloody rivalry
• Atreus killed two sons of Thyestes
• Finally, Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, killed Atreus and expelled Agamemnon and Menelaus
• Both taken in by Tyndarius of Sparta
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Sins of the Fathers
• Curse of the House of Atreus– Was it the sin of Tantalus?
– The murder of Chrysippus by Atreus and Thyestes?
– The murder of the sons of Thyestes by Atreus?
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• Returned to Mycenae…– ExpelledThyestes and banished Aegisthus
• Consolidated power and became the ‘king of kings’
Clytemnestra = Agamemnon
Iphegeneia Chrysothemis Laodice Orestes
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The Marriage of Helen
• Suitors came from all of Greece• Tyndareus feared a war• Odysseus’ idea:• Each suitor to swear an oath to abide
and defend the chosen one and the marriage
• Menelaus, son of Atreus, was chosen• He succeeded Tyndareus as king of
Sparta
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Menelaus and Helen