chapter 14 lecture one of two perseus and myths of the argive plain ©2012 pearson education inc
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Chapter 14Lecture One of Two
Perseus and Myths of the Argive Plain
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Argolid
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NASA
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Myths of the Argive Plain
• Rich Bronze Age area– Mycenae– Lion’s gate– Beehive tombs
• Tiryns
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Fig. 14.1The Lion Gate at Mycenae.
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Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athens
IO AND HER DESCENDANTSThe Wanderings of Io
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The Wanderings of Io
• The river god Inachus and Melia– Io
• Zeus’s passion and Hera’s jealousy– Lerna– the “cow”– Argus– Hermes (Argeïphontes)
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Fig. 14.2 Hermes Slays Argus
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Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
The Wanderings of Io
• Ionian Sea, Byzantium, the “Bosporus,” the Caucus Mountains, Egypt
• Epaphus “he who has been touched”– = Isis– boôpis
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IO AND HER DESCENDANTSCrimes of the Danaïds
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Crimes of the Danaïds
• Epaphus + Memphis– Libya + Poseidon
• Agenor• Belus
• Belus has two sons– Aegyptus, who rules in Arabia,– Danaüs, who rules in Libya
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Crimes of the Danaïds
• Aegyptus has fifty sons• Danaüs has fifty daughters
– the Danaïds
• They flee to Argos to prevent the proposed marriages– Danaüs now king in Argos
• The sons of Aegyptus in Argos
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Crimes of the Danaïds
• “All but one”– Hypermnestra spares Lynceus– Their heads buried in the Lernean swamp
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OBSERVATIONSSprings and the Dangers of Woman
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Dangers of Woman
• Etiological to explain the swamps?– Also from another, related story
• Amymonê and Poseidon
• Theme of female resentment against fixed marriages– Also saved Argos from foreign rule
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Fig. 14.3Poseidon and Amynomê.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, New York
Dangers of Woman
• Historical connection between Argos and Egypt– The historical Danuna (Sea Peoples?) or 1200 BC,
and the tribe of Dan
• “Danaän used by Homer to refer to the Argives and Achaeans (words for the Greeks at Troy).– Hellenes only from Thessaly
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