Download Important People - B/C | CLAS 2040 - Greek Mythology and more Quizzes Classical Literature in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Baucis & Philemon DEFINITION 1 took the gods Zeus and Hermes into their home after they had been rejected by everyone else in the town The gods told B & P that they were going to destroy the town, so they needed to climb a mountain with them. The gods turned their cottage into a temple and when they died, the gods made them trees TERM 2 Bellerophone DEFINITION 2 Hero who killed the chimera (Homer's monster = lion's head, goat's body, serpent's tail) Grandfather of Glaucus, who recounts this tale in the Iliad TERM 3 Byblis DEFINITION 3 fell in love with her brother Canis and told him Canus runs away after reading her confession of love for him Byblis cries and cries so much that she turns into a spring TERM 4 Cadmus DEFINITION 4 Brother of Europa, founder of Thebes when she is kidnapped by Zeus he is sent along with his brothers to find her. He consults the oracle at Delphi, and it tells him to follow a cow and found a city where the cow lays to rest. This is the future site of Thebes. Kills a sacred serpent and is later turned into one himself TERM 5 Callimachus DEFINITION 5 Greek poet & scholar; head of the library of Alexandria responsible for producing the catalog of all the volumes in the library TERM 6 Callisto DEFINITION 6 virgin huntress and follower of Diana; Raped by Jove When Diana discovered she was pregnant, she was no longer allowed to be a follower After giving birth to a son, Arcas, she was turned into a bear by Juno Both mother and son were turned into constellations by Jove TERM 7 Cambridge Ritualists DEFINITION 7 founders of anthropology; studied the relationship of myth to ritual (Ritual first, then myth) J.G. Frazier & Jane Ellen Harrison TERM 8 Joseph Campbell DEFINITION 8 Most popular/widely respected scholar of Greek myth there's a master pattern underlying greek myths (like Perseus) monomyth: a myth with an underlying deep structure, told cross-culturally in different ways (modern myth) TERM 9 Cassandra DEFINITION 9 daughter of King Priam and Hecuba chosen to be Agamemnon's slave His wife, Clytemnestra, along with Aegisthus (with whom she was having an affair) kill Agamemnon and Cassandra upon their return TERM 10 Centaurs & Lapiths DEFINITION 10 invited to the wedding of Pirithous & Hippodame They get drunk and attempt to steal the bride, and because of this, a fight breaks out. The centaurs are eventually defeated and exiled from Thessaly Caenus, invincible man who was once a woman, is defeated and crushed by boulders
