V- Tragedy Readings: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Antigone. 1- Oedipus Oedipus (swollen foot) was the son of king Laius and queen Jocasta. He was king of Thebes. Sophocles wrote three tragedies about him: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. At...
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V- Tragedy Reading: Apollodore, The Library, 3.4.9 “And Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, founded Ephyra, which is now called Corinth, and married Merope, daughter of Atlas. They had a son Glaucus, who had by Eurymede a son Bellerophon, who slew the fire breathing...
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Readings: Sophocles, Oedipus the King Oedipus the King JOCASTA All right, forget about those things you’ve said. 850 Listen to me, and ease your mind with this—no human being has skill in prophecy.I’ll show you why with this example. King Laius once received...
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V- Tragedy Readings: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Antigone 1- Oedipus Oedipus (swollen foot) was the son of king Laius and queen Jocasta. He was king of Thebes. Sophocles wrote three tragedies about him: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. At...
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IV- Heroes Readings: Apollodorus 2.4.8-2.7 2- Hercules His first name was Ἀλκαῖος (Alkaios or Alcaeus). He was the son of Zeus and Alcmene (Ἀλκμήνη), a mortal woman. Alcmene was married to Amphitryon, son of Alcaeus. Amphitryon went to Taphos in a war...
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Apollodorus, The Library, 2.4.8-2.7 Heracles Before Amphitryon reached Thebes, Zeus came during the night and made the one night as long as three. He made himself look like Amphitryon, slept with Alcmene, and told her what had happened with the Teleboans....
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Apollodorus, The Library, 3.1.1 & 3.4..1-2 [3.1.1] Having now run over the family of Inachus and described them from Belus down to the Heraclids, we have next to speak of the house of Agenor. For as I have said, Libya had by Poseidon two sons, Belus and...
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IV- Heroes Readings: Apollodorus, The Library, 3.1.1 & 3.4.1-2 1- Cadmus Cadmus was the son of Agenor king of Tyre. According to Herodotus, he lived around 2000 B.C. and taught Greeks the alphabet (what we call today the Linear B). He had a beautiful...
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Lecture three Readings: Homeric Hymns: Hymn 5 to Aphrodite ; Hymn 20 to Hephaestus ; III- Olympian gods The Olympian gods live on Mount Olympus in Thessalia Greece after they won their war with Titans. Their number is set to twelve, but sometime later...
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Lecture two: Readings: Hesiod, Theogony, 132-210 II-Titans Titans are the second generation of gods. They ruled the Golden Age. According to Hesiod, the Golden Age was a period of primordial peace, harmony, stability and prosperity. “Men lived like gods...
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