greek mythology week 7 + 8

Artmesis, epithet, attributes

-epithet: 3 face goddess

-attributes: bow, arrow, knee length dress

-goddess of hunt, Chasity, unmarried girls, childbirth, protector of animals

-protects young people, and animals

-associated with selene & hecate

Birth

-bothe Artemis and apollo were born at Delos from letos

-she was born first and helped her mother birth apollo

Artemis nymphs

-a group of young women

-often accompanying Artemis as well as her hunting dogs

Actaéon

-A hunter that was hunting and saw Artemis bathing

-She turns him into a deer and his dogs tears him apart

Orion

-a hunter that wanted Artemis and tried to —— her

-him ands dog sirens were turned into constellations

3 faced goddess

-earth w hunting

-space with selene

-underworld w hecate

temple of Artemis

-football sized temple made out of marble for Artemis

kallisto

-A pretty nymph of Artemis that doesn’t want zues

-zues disguises himself as Artemis to get close to her and —— her

-artemis kicks her out of the group, kallisto gives birth and then Hera turns her into a bear

-Arcus is her son and one day while out hunting he almost shoots his mother but zues stepped in and turned him into a bear

-Zues then makes them into constellations, uras major & minor

Euripides

-famous person that made plays

-he’s a realist

-made a play called Hippocytos

Hippocytos (background)

-Athens are doing good in the war by capturing soldiers

-the plague broke out killing many

-3 act play

-its a morality play

hippocytos play

-Aphrodite opens this first act

-Phaedpa then talks, she falls for hippocytos (her step son) but he rejects her and is devoted to chastity. she she’s so humiliated that she kills herself. She wrote a note saying hippoctus tried to —— her and that’s why she died

-thesus (Phaedra husband) tells Poseidon to kill his son, Poseidon gave him one promise/wish so he makes the wave kill him

-hippocytos and Artemis ends the play

Anaxayuras

-philosopher that became a teacher with two important students, peracleus and uripethes

-hesaid the sun was a rock in space rather than the gods work

-people thought he was corrupting the youth

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