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Chapter Thirteen, Lecture One

Chapter Thirteen, Lecture One. Perseus and Myths of the Argive Plain. Argolid. Myths of the Argive Plain. Rich Bronze Age area Mycenae Lion’s gate Beehive tombs Tiryns. Io and Her Descendants. The Wanderings of Io. The Wanderings of Io. The river god Inachus and Melia Io

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Chapter Thirteen, Lecture One

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  1. Chapter Thirteen, Lecture One Perseus and Myths of the Argive Plain

  2. Argolid

  3. Myths of the Argive Plain • Rich Bronze Age area • Mycenae • Lion’s gate • Beehive tombs • Tiryns

  4. Io and Her Descendants The Wanderings of Io

  5. The Wanderings of Io • The river god Inachus and Melia • Io • Zeus’s passion and Hera’s jealousy • Lerna • the “cow” • Argus • Hermes (Argeïphontes)

  6. The Wanderings of Io • Ionian Sea, Byzantium, the “Bosporus,” the Caucus Mountains, Egypt • Epaphus “he who has been touched” • = Isis • boôpis

  7. Crimes of the Danaïds

  8. Crimes of the Danaïds • Epaphus + Memphis • Libya + Poseidon • Agenor • Belus • Belus has two sons • Aegyptus, who rules in Arabia, • Danaüs, who rules in Libya

  9. Crimes of the Danaïds • Aegyptus has fifty sons • Danaüs has fifty daughters • the Danaïds • They flee to Argos to prevent the proposed marriages • Danaüs now king in Argos • The sons of Aegyptus in Argos

  10. Crimes of the Danaïds • “All but one” • Hypermnestra spares Lynceus • Their heads buried in the Lernean swamp

  11. Springs and the Dangers of Woman

  12. Springs and the Dangers of Woman • Etiological to explain the swamps? • Also from another, related story • Amymonê and Poseidon • Theme of female resentment against fixed marriages • Also saved Argos from foreign rule

  13. Springs and the Dangers of Woman • Historical connection between Argos and Egypt • The historical Danuna (Sea Peoples?) or 1200 BC, and the tribe of Dan • “Danaän used by Homer to refer to the Argives and Achaeans (words for the Greeks at Troy). • Hellenes only from Thessaly

  14. End

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