Mythology 17-19

always thirsty & hungry

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

not sure who their parents are

Ion

denied burial to those who fought against Thebes

Creon (refused burial to Polyneices and others; central to Antigone’s story)

tells their story by weaving on a loom

Philomela (after being assaulted by Tereus, she weaves her story into a tapestry)

waged war "to reclaim the dead"

Theseus

killed their son with their own hands

Agave (in a Bacchic frenzy, she kills her son Pentheus)

helps their brother kill their step-father

Electra (helps Orestes kill their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus)

turned into a stag (deer) & was killed by dogs

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

watched their children die; turned into a wet:

Niobe (her children were killed by Apollo and Artemis; she was turned into a stone that is always wet with tears)

killed their mother

Orestes (killed Clytemnestra to avenge his father Agamemnon)

sore loser; floods Athens

Poseidon (lost the contest for Athens to Athena and flooded the land in anger)

protector of Athens

Athena (won the contest and became the city’s patron goddess)

Artemis saved them from being sacrificed

Iphigenia (Artemis replaced her with a deer at the altar)

half human & half dragon

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

got helpers by planting dragon teeth

Cadmus (planted dragon’s teeth, which sprouted into armed warriors)

a part of a bitter love triangle that involved

Deianira, Heracles, and Nessus (Deianira was Heracles’ wife, Nessus tried to abduct her)

fated to die at the hands of their son

Laius (Oedipus’s father, killed by Oedipus as foretold)

kills an enemy child and feeds it to them

Atreus (killed Thyestes’ sons and served them to him)

avenged their daughter’s death

clymenstra

all that was left of Thebes was their necklace

Harmonia’s necklace (the cursed necklace brought ruin to Thebes)

Know the difference between Ion’s father by birth and his new family’s father -

Ion’s biological father is Apollo, a god who secretly fathered him through Creusa and arranged for him to be raised at Delphi. His new family’s father, Xuthus, is a mortal who mistakenly believes Ion is his son due to a misleading prophecy from Apollo.