Exam

multiple choice
short answers
ID quotes
o Archaic 8-6 black
o Classical 5-4 red

Europa
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Europa, a Phoenician princess of Tyre, is abducted (raped) by Zeus in the

shape of a bull and brought to Crete (East/West)
Agenor Cadmus and Europa
Europa Zeus Minos (mythical king of Crete)

Cadmus
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Cadmus consults the oracle and finds a cow in Phocis which leads him to
Boeotia. There he founds the city Cadmeia.
Serpent, son of Ares, and serpent teeth
Spartoi = sewn men
Punishment for murder
Cadmus Harmonia Ino, Semele, Autonoe, and Agave

Archaic
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Movement from left to right

Not much movement in clothing
Black figures

Labdacus and Lycus

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Labdacus succeed the throne after Pentheus, Cadmus grandson, dies

Labdacus Laius
Lycus reigns as regent since Laius is a child
Lycus (son of Chthonius, a spartos) recovered Antiope (his niece) from Sicyon
after she had fled from her father, Nycteus, and had an affair with Zeus
Antiope Zeus Amphion and Zethus
A. and Z. were exposed and meant to die but saved by a shepherd
Antiope was held prisoner by Lycus and Dirce, but she was avenged by her
sons later
A. and Z. build walls around Cadmeia. A. Niobe; Z. Thebe

Laius
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Laius was exiled by Amphion and Zethus when they took control of Thebes.
After they die, Laius returns and becomes king of Thebes
In exile, Laius was received by Pelops, king of Elis
Xenia = guest friendship
Chrysippus
Pelops curse is told of in Delphic oracle to Laius: I will give you a son, but
you are destined to die at his hands. This is the decision of Zeus, in answer to

the bitter curses of Pelops, whose son you abducted; all this did Pelops call
down upon you.
Laius Jocasta Oedipus

Oedipus
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Laius, afraid of the oracle, orders a servant to expose Oedipus (swell foot)
on Mt. Cithaeron. The servant pities Oedipus and gives him to a Corinthian
shepherd; the king and queen of Corinth, Polybus and Merope, adopt him.
Oedipus consults the oracle about his parentage, but the oracle cryptically
tells him that he will kill his father and marry his mother, so Oedipus decides
to go to Thebes.
The Sphinxs riddle
Oedipus Jocasta Polynices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.
Tiresias blind prophet - blinded by Hera but given knowledge by Zeus

After Oedipus Rex

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Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, produced ca. 401, and Antigone

Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes
Euripides Phoenician Women and Suppliant Women
The 7 = Adrastus (king of Argos), Polynices, Tydeus, Hippomedon,
Parthenopaeus, and Amphiaraus
Alcmaeon (son of Amphiaraus) and the Epigoni = later generation

Oedipus and Freud

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Sigmund Freud wrote about the Oedipus complex. The Oedipus myth became
important for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic interpretations of myth.
Freuds student, Carl Jung, argued that women have and Electra complex.
Psychoanalysis, structuralism (east/west, civilization/nature)

Quote Analysis
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Murder, marriage, misfortune you have hurled these charges from your
mouth. These things I suffered unwillingly, for they were the will of the gods,
who perhaps have been angry with our family for generations past. As for
myself alone, you never could reproach me for a crime in doing the deeds I
did against myself and members of my family. Oedipus, Oedipus at ,
Sophocles,