CLAS 4375:  GENDER AND RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS

REVIEW FOR TOPIC 4--PATRIARCHY AND MARRIAGE


KNOW THE FOLLOWING MYTHS CONCERNING ZEUS AND HERA:

The wedding of Zeus and Hera.  The beauty contest.

Zeus and Europa.  Zeus and Ganymede.

Hera and:  Heracles, Dionysus, Callisto, Io

Reread Euripides' Alcestis
 

IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING NAMES (those without a link are found in Euripides' play and/or are explained in the Notes to Euripides' Alcestis):

Thanatos, Apollo, Asclepius, Admetus, Alcestis, Cyclopes, Heracles, Eurystheus, Hestia, Orpheus, Persephone (Kore), Demeter, Hades, Alcmena.

Sources:

Zeus and Hera
 

Morford and Lenardon, ch. 3 (on reserve)
 

Morford and Lenardon online (Glossary)

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