greek mythology weel 11+12

herkales & Deianera

-they go on a road trip and have to cross a body of water, and a serpent offers to help the cross but get rowdy with Deianera

-as an apology to deianera the serpant gave her a piece of cloth with his blood on it and if she ever think herkales has eyes for another female then to have him wear it

-when he returns from atoning for killing his friend’s son Deianera asks him to wear the cloth

-he burst into flames and dies, Athena picks him up and takes him to Olympia and makes him a god

Herkales and his friend

-Herakles wins a friend’s competition and the prive was his daughter hand in marriage, but the friend refused

-his friend’s son came to herkales and herkales pushed him off the edge and kills him

-he goes to the oricle to ask what to do, it doesn’t respond

-he atons by serving Omphale for a year in drag

Ariadne & Theseus

-when he gets off the boat he deats minataur

-they start to return and Ariadne goes too since she helped with the death of her brother (by giving Theseus yarn or glowing stick to help with directions)

-he stops and she gets off the boat but leaves her on the island, Dionysis sees her and they get married

Aegueus death

-he told his son to change the sail boat colors but Theseus forgets

-when he came back aegeus jumped off the building and died

Herkales & Arete

-there was different paths that herkales could have taken and he chose Arete, hardest path

-He’s not just a muscle man but turns more into a model, he becomes more moral

founder of Athens

-Kekrops(half serpent) is the founder of Athens

-Erichthonius(great 3x grandfather) is a half serpent, born from hephatus offspring on a rock from wanting Athena

-Athena gave baby Erichthonius to the daughter of Kekrops and was told not to look at the him, they do and get scared so they ran off the cliff

4 sons of the ruler

-the oldest, Aegeus and a princess of Trozen had Theseus

-Aegeus leaves them both but leaves behind a sword and shoes for theseus until he’s older

Medea & Ageus

-Medea sees theseus as a threat since he’s next in line to the thrown but already invited him inside

-they have dinner but medea poisons his drink, but Ageus knocks the drink out his hand after seeing his shoes

Menos, his sons, and wife

-Minos’s son won all the games and they were upset at Cred and kills him, as forgivness they give menos 7 boys and 7 girls once every year

-minos made a promise with poseidian but didn’t do it so posiedan has aphrodite make pasaphane(his wife) fall in love with a bull

-their baby is minatar, with the children they are given to minataur to eat

-minos is a son of zues and has it thunder for proof, Theseus is the grandson of poesiden and throws a ring in the sea and poseidan wife helps get it

theseus in litature

-opressed, underday, overlooked

theseus and his friend

-him and his friend get drunk and start talking about women, prophesies(wife of hades)

-they go visit her but hades tells them to sit, they are then stuck to the chair

-herkales sees him and hades lets theseus leave but his friend has to stay

6 labours of theseus

-club man, club them then robs them, has to defeat him and he takes his club

-pine bender, burn 2 pine trees and would tie someone to the tree and cut it

-wild sal, kills it

-another highway man, to pass travelers would have to clean his feet but he would kick them over the edge to his killer snake/turtle

-wrestle a man, he wins and kills him

-procrustes, like a hotel worker and when people come to stay he would come while they sleep and if they were longer then the bed he would cut them to fit, if shorter then stretch

perseus

-legandary founder of mycenae

Medusa Gorgons

-she has 2 sisters, both were immortal, she was mortal

-made love with poseidan in Athena’s temple and as a punishment her hair was turned into snakes

-any mortal would get turned to stone

Graai

-the three of them share 1 eye and 1 tooth

-perseus went to them and wants to know where to go to find medusa, so he took their tooth until they told him

-they give him a bag for her head

perseus & Andronida

-they married and had 7 children in mycenae

-perses leaves and founded persua

perseus story

-king of Argus didn't have a son so he went to the orcle

-Orcle said his duaghter(Danaé)will have a son that will kill him so he locked her away in a bronze chamber but the top was open

-Zues impregnats her and gives birth to perseus and hides him for 4 years

-her father find out and puts them in a chest and throws them in the ocean

-Dictys(a fisherman) rescues them and is raised by him and his mother

Dictys brother and Danaé

-The king throws a banquet and for entry you need to bring a horse

-perseus was to poor and offered one of these: He’ll do whatever the king ask or he’ll kill medusa

medusa and perseus

-he cuts her head off and pegasus & chrysor comes out

-as perseus is returning back her blood is tripping and the drops are turning into blood

gifts for the gods to kill Medusa

-zues, a sword

-hades, a dark cape

-Athena, a chiny sheild

-hermes, flying shoes

Medusa head and perseus

-perseus turns Atlas(the man that hold uo the heavens) to stone

-Andromida says she’s prettier than the charites and posedian chanied her to a rock for a sea creater to get her but perseus saves her

-he goes back home and turns Dictys brother and army to stone

Bellerophon

-his father was king of cron

-bellerophon either killed his brother or an enemy called bellero

-he goes to Mycenae for forgiveness and the quenn fell for him but he rejected her and she tells her husband that he tried to —- him

-he sends him to another town with a letter for the king

Bellerophon and the 2nd king he went to

-they feasted for 9 days without looking at the note from the previous king

-Both kings can’t kill him because they invited him inside and hospitality

-his solution is to give him an impossible task

Bellerophon impossible task

-the chimera, it’s a lion with a snake as a tail, a goat head on the neck and can breathe fire

-to complete it he needed help from pegasus

-he sleeps in Athenas temple and has a dream where to find pegasus

-they fly to chimera and puts led on his weapon, he defeats it but the king doesn’t believe him

Bellerophon other tasks

-the king doesn’t believe him and tells him to do more tasks

-the people from the kingdom attack him and posedian interfers and floods the area

-he has a good ending being a ruler until he tries to fly to olympia

Bellerophon & olympia

-him and pegasus fly but only pegasus makes it and bellerophon falls into a thorn bush and becomes blind and crippled

-he lived as a hermit after

Jason, before his journey

-Aeson has a step son, pelias(son of posiedan) was a son named Jason but was sent away and was raised by a centahorse

-jason comes back to claim the thrown and on the way back he encounters an old lady(it was hera) and looses a shoe

-teh orcle told pelias that a man with one shoe will become a problem for him

-Jason demanded the thrown and they agreed if he could bring back a golden fleece, is was very far and gaurded by a dragon

Jason, the boat ride