Briseis
A lover of Achilles
The island of Naxos
A place, where Theseus abandoned Ariadne
Why Pentheus was dressed as a woman?
He wanted to spy the followers of Bacchus
Why Ariadne was abandoned by Theseus on the Island?
God Bacchus ordered Theseus to abandon her for him to marry.
I beg you by our troubles, which you can lighten,
by your race, and the divinity of the all-seeing Sun,
your grandfather, by Diana’s triple face and sacred mysteries,
and if my people’s gods have worth, those too:
O Virgin, take pity on me, take pity on my men,
grant me your services for all time!
Jason begs Medea in Colchis
Penelope
A wife of Odysseus
Symplegates
Some moving rocks the Argonauts crossed at the entrance of the black sea
Why did Ariadne climb the tree waving her white veil?
She wanted to inform the sailors of Theseus' ship that she was stuck on the island.
Why did Dido commit a suicide?
Aeneas, her lover abandons her.
“The white swan, despondent on the grass, sings, like this.”
Dido writes to Aeneas
Pasiphae
A mother of Ariadne and Phaedra, a wife of Minos
Argo
a ship of the Argonauts
What did Cassandra say about Paris?
She said, that he will bring a war to Troy.
Why Briseis is writing a letter to Achilles in barbarian Greek?
She is not a Greek women, she is from Troy
Leda, deceived by the swan, gave me Jupiter for a father”
Helen writes to Paris
Amazonian women
Women-warriors
The island of Crete
A homeland of Ariadne and Phaedra
What did Dido reveal to Aeneas?
That she is pregnant
Why did Hippolytus did not warship Aphrodite?
He maintains chastity and serves Artemis.
“if you ask where Creusa is, the lovely mother of Iulus –she died alone, abandoned by a hard-hearted husband”.
Dido writes to Aeneas
Elyssa
Another name of Dido
An apple of discord
A golden apple, the reason of the conflict between the goddesses
How did Sycheus, husband of Dido die?
He was killed by a brother of Dido, Pygmalion
Why Penelope did not sleep all nights?
She is knitting the shroud during a day and unraveling it secretly at night to avoid a marriage.
“While I foolishly fear it, that is your willfulness, you could be captive now to a foreign love”
Penelope writes