Mythology

medea

"Well then, Do I betray my father's throne? Do I save An unknown stranger so that when he is safe He sails off without me and marries another While I, [x], am left behind to be punished? If he can do that, prefer another woman to me, Let the ungrateful fool die!" -speaker?

alcinous

"alas for the prophecy of old that i heard from my father. he said that Poseidon would be angry with us for giving safe passage and that one day he would wreak a beautiful ship as it sailed home over the misty sea." -who is speaking?

theseus, phaedra

"beneath the earth, beneath the earth, i want to die, move to the gloom there and dwell in darkness, oh wretched me, since i am bereft of your dearest companionship. for you destroyed more than you perished." Euripides' Hippolytus -speaker? -whose companionship is being mourned?

Agamemnon

"but my wife did not let me even fill my eyes with the sight of my son. she killed me before i could do even that. but let me tell you something, odysseus: beach your ship secretly when you come home. women can't be trusted anymore." -who is speaking?

aphrodite, euripides hippolytus

"i shall now show you the truth of these words: theseus' son, hippolytus, the amazon's offspring, reared by pure pittheus- he alone of the citizens of this land of Trozen says that i am by nature the most vile of divinities." -speaker? -work?

helen

"i, too, give you a gift, dear child, this robe, a moment for your bride to wear on her wedding day. until then let it lie in your mothers keeping." -speaker?

Phaedra, euripides hippolytus

"in being rid of my life this day, i will delight cyprus, the very one who destroys me. i will be worsted by a bitter passion. but death i will be a bane for the other, so that he may learn not to be haughty at my ills." -speaker? -work?

ulysses

"If you ask me what I was doing, I'll tell you. I laid traps for the enemy, I surrounded Our fortification with a trench. I kept up Our allies' morale in a long, tedious war, I advised on supply lines and provisions, And I was sent out on missions as needed." -speaker?

medea

"id rather stand three times behind a shield than bear a child once." -speaker?

medea, jason

"in your good fortune, reward me, please, i beg you.from all that wealth the colchian pirates win from distant lands, the sunburnt indians, treasure that crams our house full up to bursting, and we deck our trees with gold- from this wealth in my exile i took nothing, except my brothers body; and i spent that even for you." -speaker? -who is being addressed?

Phaedra, ovids heroides 4

"whatever words are here, read on to the end. how could reading this letter hurt you? indeed, my words might even give you pleasure." -speaker? -work?

nausicaa

"listen this man hasn't come to phaeacia against the will of the olympian gods. before, he was a terrible sight, but not, he's like one of the gods who live in the sky. if only such a man would be called my husband, living here, and content to stay here. well, go on, give him something to eat and drink." -speaker?

Medea, Senecas medea

"my heart, as you know, can despise the wealth of kings; and it does. but let me have the children in my exile, for company, so when my tears fall fast, i may hold them in my arms. you will have new children." -speaker? -work?

penelope

"nurse, bring the bed out from the master bedroom, the bedstead he made himself, and spread it for him with fleeces and blankets and silky coverlets." -speaker?

Medea, ovids heroides 12

"perhaps you will entertain her stupid ears with slanders against my foreign ways. let her laugh now and be merry at my faults while she reclines on tyrian purple, soon enough she will weep as she is consumed in a blaze that is hotter than mine." -speaker? -work?

penelope, odysseus

"stranger, you should know that dreams are hard to interpret, and don't always come true. there are two gates of dreams to drift through, one made of horn and the other made of ivory. dreams that pass through the gate of ivory are deceptive dreams and will not come true, but when someone has a dream that has assed through the gate of polished horn, that dream will come true. my strange dream, though, did not come from there." -who is speaking? -who is being addressed?

tiresias

"then you must go off again, carrying a broad-bladed oar, until you come to men who know nothing of the sea, who eat there food unsalted, and have never seen red-prowed ships or oars that wing them along. and i will ell you a sure sign that you have found them, one you cannot miss. when you meet another traveler who thinks you are carrying a winnowing fan, then you must fix your oar in earth and offer sacrifice to lord poseidon, a ram, a bull, and a boar in its prime." -speaker?

odysseus, laertes

"well, old timer, you certainly know how to garden. there's not a plant, a fig tree, a vine or an olive, not a pear tree of leek in this whole garden untended. but if i may say so without you getting angry, you don't take such good care of yourself. old age is hard, yes. but unwashed, scruffy and dressed in rags?" -who is speaking? -who is being addressed?

Phaedra, senecas phaedra

"what a hero! off he goes, through the lake from which there is no return. he goes as a soldier of shameless suitor to steal from his throne the wife of the king of hell." -speaker? -work?

demodocus

"what god has brought this plague in here? get off to the side, away from me, or ill show you egypt and cyprus, you pushy panhandler! you don't know your place. you make your rounds and everyone hands out things recklessly. and why shouldn't they? its easy to be generous with someone else's wealth." -who is speaking?

helios

Medea is the granddaughter of which god?

nestor

Who narrates the "Tales from the Truce" in Book 12?

an old woman, commits suicide

Who tells the story of Cupid and Psyche? what happens to that person

52 ce

seneca wrote his works around what date

hybris

what is the greek term for the "boasting" or arrogance towards the gods?

cygnus, hector

"Achilles in his chariot, Taking out whole squadrons with his Pelian spear But always looking through the lanes of battle For either [x] or [y]." -who is he after?

Glauce, Medea

"First the gold diadem which lay upon her head sent out a remarkable stream of devouring flame and also her fine-wrought robe, your children's gift, was eating the white skin of..." -Who is being described? -Who is receiving the report?

king aegeus

"I do trust you, but Pelias' house and Creon are my enemies. if they drag me away, the yoke of your oath will keep you from giving me up. if you just promise and don't swear by the gods. you might become their friend; a summons from them might make you yield, for my claims are weak, where as they have both wealth and power." Euripides Medea -Medea is talking to who?

ajax

"Is it because I took up arms freely, Without coercion, that I am now denied arms? And will they be given to on who feigned madness To dodge the war and had to be exposed By someone shrewder? Little good it did him." -speaker?

Telemachus, Odysseus

"Like the cries of birds- sea-eagles of taloned vultures- whose young chicks rough farmers have stolen out of their nests before they were fledged" -Two characters being described in simile?

theseus, senecas phaedra

"hands, stop trembling! be steady for your sad work; eyes, dry up your flow of tears down my cheeks, just while i count the parts of my sons body, and build his corpse." -speaker? -work?

Circe

"who are you, and where do you come from? what is your city and who are your parents? i am amazed that you drank this potion and are not bewitched. no other man has ever resisted this drug once its past his lips. but you have a mind that cannot be beguiled. you must be odysseus, the man of many wiles, who quicksilver hermes always said would come here in his swift black ship on his way home from troy. well then, sheath your sword and lets climb into my bed and tangle in love there, so we may come to trust each other." -Speaker?

calypso

"you poor man. you can stop grieving now and pining away. I'm sending you home. look, heres a bronze axe. cut some long timbers and make yourself a raft fitted with top decks, something that will get you across the sea's misty spaces." -speaker?

creon, medea

"you! you scheming source of every criminal act you have a woman's wickedness; your daring shows masculine strength, ignoring what men say. go, wash clean the kingdom, and take with you your deadly drugs. free citizens from fear; stay in some other country to bother gods." Seneca's medea -speaker? -who is being addressed?

labors of heracles

1. nemean lion 9. the girdle(chastity) of hippolyta (amazon queen) 11. the apples of hesperides 12. cerberus

art vs. nature

daedalus, orpheus, pygmalion

deus ex machina

device to allow medea to appear in her sun chariot?

431 bce

euripides wrote his works around what date

Creon

glauces dad, jasons father in law, king of corinith?

nurse

in euripides' hippolytus, who tells hippolytus of phaedra's illicit love?

medea

in seneca's phaedra, hippolytus offers which woman as definitive proof that women are "the devil"

phaedra

in seneca's phaedra, who tells hippolytus of phaedra's illicit love?

daphne, io, callisto

three woman who lost their voices in metamorphoses