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The Spartan Saga

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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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