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What is the story of Tantalus and Pelops?
Tantalus cooked his son, pelops, and served him to the gods, Tantalus punished in Mt. Tarttarus and Pelops brought back to life by fates
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What source is there for the story of Persephone and Demeter?
Epic Poetry, Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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What is the story of Persephone and Demeter?
Persephone kidnapped by Hades and taken to the underworld, Demeter mourns and crops die, Zeus demands release, Persephone eats pomegranate seed and has to spend 1/3 of the year in the underworld
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What source do we have for the story of Oedipus?
Tragedy by Sophocles called Oedipus, The King
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What is the story of Oedipus?
King of Thebes, plague caused by Apollo punishing impiety, makes him realise he unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, mother commits suicide and he blinds himself
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What source is there for the story of Agamemnon and Clymenestra?
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
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What source do we have for the story of Pandora?
Hesiod's Epic Poem,Theogony
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What is the story of Pandora?
Made from clay to punish Prometheus for giving fire to men, opened a pithos jar to unleash evil spirits to plague mankind
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What sources do we have for the story of Medea?
Hesiod's Theogony
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What is the story of Medea
Many interpretations, in Euripides' Medea she is the wife of Jason who kills children after Jason leaves her to marry Glauce, King Creon of Corinth's daughter, she kills Glauce and Creon too then flees to Athens
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What sources do we have for the story of Dionysis?
The Bacchae by Euripides
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What is the story of Dionysis?
Pentheus, King of Thebes, refuses to worship Dionysis, God sends women crazy, Pentheus sneaks into female ritual dressed as a woman and is torn to pieces
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What sources do we have for the story of Herakles?
Athenian Tragedy by Euripides
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What is the story of Herakles?
Son of Zeus and Amphitryon, whilst in the underworld fulfilling 12 labors, Amphitryon and wife, Megara and sentenced to death in Thebes, saves them but then iris and madness (personified) cause him to kill his wife and children in a frenzy
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What sources are there for the story of Theseus?
Euripides' Suppliants
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Who was Theseus?
Mythical King of Athens, son of Poseidon, famous for defeating the Minotaur, heavily linked to democracy
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