Mythology 17-19

always thirsty & hungry

Tantalus (punished in the Underworld with eternal hunger and thirst)

Ion

not sure who their parents are

Creon

denied burial to those who fought against Thebes (refused burial to Polyneices and others; central to Antigone’s story)

Philomela

tells their story by weaving on a loom (after being assaulted by Tereus, she weaves her story into a tapestry)

Theseus

waged war 'to reclaim the dead'

Agave

killed their son with their own hands (in a Bacchic frenzy, she kills her son Pentheus)

Electra

helps their brother kill their step-father (helps Orestes kill their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus)

Actaeon

turned into a stag (deer) & was killed by dogs (saw Artemis bathing and was turned into a stag, killed by his own hounds)

Niobe

watched their children die; turned into a stone that is always wet with tears (her children were killed by Apollo and Artemis)

Orestes

killed their mother (killed Clytemnestra to avenge his father Agamemnon)

Poseidon

sore loser; floods Athens (lost the contest for Athens to Athena and flooded the land in anger)

Athena

protector of Athens (won the contest and became the city’s patron goddess)

Iphigenia

Artemis saved them from being sacrificed (Artemis replaced her with a deer at the altar)

Cecrops

half human & half dragon (first king of Athens, described as half man, half serpent/dragon)

Cadmus

got helpers by planting dragon teeth (planted dragon’s teeth, which sprouted into armed warriors)

Nessus

a part of a bitter love triangle that involved (Deianira was Heracles’ wife, Nessus tried to abduct her)

Laius

fated to die at the hands of their son (Oedipus’s father, killed by Oedipus as foretold)

Atreus

kills an enemy child and feeds it to them (killed Thyestes’ sons and served them to him)

Clytemnestra

avenged their daughter’s death

Harmonia’s necklace

all that was left of Thebes was their necklace (the cursed necklace brought ruin to Thebes)

Who is Ion's biological father?

Apollo, a god who secretly fathered him through Creusa.

What is the relationship between Ion and Xuthus?

Xuthus is Ion's new family’s father, a mortal who mistakenly believes Ion is his son.