IPHIGENIA
- Agamemnon is on his way to Troy
- Decides to sacrifice Iphigenia to goddess
- Diana takes pity
- Replaces Iphigenia with stag and lets them continue
POLYXENA
- Only person who knows of Achilles' weakness
- Killed by Achilles' son in front of mother.
SYBYL OF CUMAE
- Tells of Trojan War
- Before go to underworld, find Golden Bough
- Make offering to Diana
- Go to underworld
- ******Golden Bough=Ticket to underworld
ORPHEUS and EURYDICE
- They get married
- She gets bit by snake and dies
- He plays instrument to get her back
- Plays so beautiful, gets wife back
- looks back at her, she disappears
- They tear him apart while he sings the saddest part
ATALANTA and HIPPOCENES
- Atalanta is a very fast runner
- Challenges to race or husband
- If he wins, they get married; if he loses, he dies.
- Venus gives Hippocenes magic apples.
- He wins and they get married.
- Venus gets upset for no Thank You card
- They turn into lions
PAN and SYRINX
- Pan falls in love with Syrinx
- She turns into reed at river
- He breaks reeds and puts into panpipe she she will always be with him
MEDEA
- Gets sent to get Golden Flees
- Jason is challenged by Medea's father
- Medea loves Jason
- Chellenge to overcome bulls and dragon
- She distracts her father by killing her brother
- Jason gives flees to his father
- Medea gets angry and kills everyone including Jason's wife
ALTHAEA and MELEAGER
- Mom heard son will live as long as wood in fire
- grabs wood out of fire
- Atalanta is upset, throws wood in fire
- kills brother, then kills herself
CYNUS
- Son of Ares, handsome, cruel
- Tries to kill Hercules
- Ares tried to stop him
- Athena tries to stop Ares
- Hercules struck Cynus
- Gave sickness to Cynus
- *******Turned into swan
THESEUS and ACHELOUS
- They have a sleepover
- They tell stories
DEATH OF ACHILLES
- Was held by heal and dipped into River Styx
- Mother hid Achilles by dressing him like a girl
- Achilles fascinated by armor, went to war
- Fight over a woman
- He killed Hector and drug him behind chariot
- Achilles got shot in heal and died
MINERVA, THE MUSES, PEGASUS
- Minerva gets sick of take care of people
- Muses had great fountain from Pegasus
- Blessed land and Pegasus
- ******Pegasus=Fountain Horse
PERSEUS and ANDROMEDA
- Andromeda is chained to rock
- Perseus falls in love with Andromeda
- He saves her, then get married
THE BACCHANT/MAENAD
- Follower of Dyanessus
- Get drunk and be somebody
- Go hunting--anything that moves
- ****"Mad Women of Dyannesus"
CEPHALUSS and PROCRICE
- Face has been changed
- Goes to wife, tries to seduce her
- She doesn't give in
- He reveals he isn't a sexy stranger
- He is her husband
- She goes away
- Comes back, make up
- Gives him a gift
- Nymph goes to wife and says husband been unfaithful
- He throws sharp thing and stabs wife and kills her
ECHO and NARCISSIS
- Will he live to old age?
- Unless he notices himself
- Echo falls in love with him
- He dies and turns into flower
FALL OF TROY
- War started from goddesses
- Judges Aphrodite to be pretties of all
- Gives prettiest award away for apple
- They want Helen back, so war begins
- Gods were upset wot they would never make it home
GALLATIA and AXIS
- Gallatia--sea nymphs
- Man sings song to her
- Realizes she is with Axis
- Takes mountain and throws at Axis
- Axis becomes River God
PERSEUS and ATLAS
- Perseus (son of Jove)
- They get in fight about land
- Atlas wins
- Perseus shows Atlas Madussa's head
- Atlas turns to stone
CERCOPES
- Monkeys banned by Zeus
- Woman makes him work in dress
- Skirt gets ripped off
- Gets mad
- ***"Don't take life too serious" and "Don't be foolish like monkeys"
FOUNTAIN OF JANOS
- Juno unlocked gate
- Tried to overflow water to keep them safe from bad guys
- Many people died
- Both ruled together
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