Antigone leads Oedipus out of Thebes. Antigone leads Oedipus out of Thebes, Charles Francois Jalabeat. The Tragedies of King Oedipus Lecture. THE FAMILIES OF LABDACUS AND LYCUS. Pentheus succeeded his grandfather, Cadmus, as king. After his death, Labdacus founded a new dynasty. When he dies, LYCU. The niece of Lycus was ANTIOPE. Zeus made her the mother of the twins AMPHION. In exile Laius lived with PELOPS.

When Jason turns 20, he journeys to see Pelias to reclaim his throne. At a nearby river, Hera the Queen of the Gods approaches him disguised as an old woman. While carrying her across the river he loses a sandal and arrives at court wearing only one. Pelias is nervous when he sees Jason missing a sandal, for an oracle has prophesied that a man wearing only one sandal shall usurp his throne. Jason and the Skeleton Fight.

Tantalus initially held the favor of the gods, but decided to cook his own son Pelops. And feed him to the gods as a test of their omniscience. Most of the gods, as they sat down to dinner with Tantalus, immediately understood what had happened, and, because they knew the nature of the meat they were served, were appalled and did not partake. Who was distracted due to the abduction by Hades.

Medusa - Peter Paul Rubens. Historically, before ancient Greece, Medusa was worshipped by the Libyan Amazons as a Serpent -Goddess, and associated with the destroyer aspect Anath.

MAJOR DEITIES OF THE SEA. Became established as the mighty god of the seas. The stream of Ocean, and his mate Tethys, titans who produced thousands of children, the Oceanids. A pre-Olympian deity who became an attendant or son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, was an old man of the sea who could foretell the future and could also change his shape at will.

Remains a pioneering monument in its attempts to link myth with ritual. Frazer believed that primitive man starts out with a belief in magical laws; later, when man begins to lose faith in magic, he invents myths about gods and claims that his formerly magical rituals are religious rituals intended to appease the gods. Vladimir Propp, a Russian folklorist, developed the structuralist approa.

Agamemnon and Achilles clash over the return of Chryseis to her father in order to appease Apollo and stop the plague. Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles, who withdraws from the fighting.