... ' Medea, Jason and his father-in-law-to-be, Creon, say Medea and her children must leave the country so that Jason may marry Creon's daughter Glauce in peace. Medea is blamed for her own sentence, being told that if she hadn't behaved as a jealous, possessive woman, she could have ... the death of Hercules. When Glauce puts on the robe it burns her flesh. Unlike Hercules, she dies. Creon dies, too, trying to help his daughter. So far the motives and reactions seem understandable, but then Medea does the unspeakable. She murders her own two children. Her revenge comes when she ... Athens...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Iphis was betrothed to Ianthe, a girl she loved, but Iphis was sad. She knew that a marriage between two girls would never work. Telethusa and her daughter prayed to Isis to help them, and the girl was turned into a boy. Iphis and Ianthe were married and their marriage was blessed by the gods. ... . After several nights of indulging in this sin in complete darkness, Cinyras brought a lamp so that he could see his love. When he recognized his daughter, he chased her with his sword. She fled. Nine months later, nearing the end of her pregnancy, Myrrha prayed for death for her sins. She ... ...

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... ' of course from the perspective of male chauvinists!) The fact that she launches an intense protest against her husband Agamemnon's cruel decision to sacrifice their daughter Iphigenia holds no ground to the Greek audience and the other characters of the play. Her own son Orestes later kills her. To him, avenging ... his father's murder is all-important and the hideous crime of matricide is only secondary! So much so that Athene , the daughter of Zeus, successfully persuades the Furies to pardon Orestes. It is as if Agamemnon's life holds greater worth than Clytemnestra's. Secondly, Med...

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... Iasion, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, hades, Poseidon and Amphitrite) was told by Gaea that one of his offspring would over throw him he would swallow every son and daughter to ensure they would never have the chance, however when it came time for his youngest son (Zeus) to be born his mother went to a cave and ... Olympian gods. Hera is the only goddess out of all of Zeus' lovers who was honored by always being with Zeus as his wife. She is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea and is Zeus' sister! At a very young age Hera had affairs with Zeus before they were married, and according to myth Hera ...

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... to his waist, and swam to a beach where he immediately fell asleep. The next morning he was awoken by maidens playing ball after doing the wash. There he saw Nausikaa, daughter of king Alkinoos. Odysseus gently supplicated to the princess. She first took him to the inhabitants of the island, the Phaiakians, and then Alkinoos, the king. There he listened to ... , sleeping in the house of Diocles the first night, and arriving by nightfall the second day. He reached the island just in the middle of a double marriage ceremony of Menaleus's daughter and son. At this point, Homer cleverly comp...

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• Grade Level: High School

... tells the story of the siege of Troy and his escape, causing Dido to love him. In the second half of the epic, King Latinus offers the hand of his daughter, Lavinia, to Aeneas in marriage, and Juno responds by inciting rage in the hearts of Queen Amata and Turnus and then opening the Gates of War. In the first half ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is here draped themselves with fawn skin, put a crown on their heads with wreaths of ivy and in their hand they held to Bacchic wand. Semele, Dionysus's mother, was the daughter of Cadmus. Together Teiresias and Cadmus, although very old, set of to walk to the mountain, "old arm upon old arm", to honor the god. Cadmus led his friend because ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School