Death and the Ancient Greek Hero

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  1. When his wife Deianira learned she was being supplanted by Iole, she sent her husband a garment soaked in Nessus’ blood. She thought it was love lotion, but It poisoned him. He died in agony—the pain was so intense, he asked to be set on fire on his funeral pyre alive. Who we talking about here?
  2. He seemed to have ruled Mycenae till ripe old age and died peacefully. Wiki says “The gods whom he had served loyally, placed him in the skies, among the stars. And there he still shines, together with his wife Andromeda and and mother-in-law Cassiopeia.” Who is this destroying hero?
  3. All his successes went to his head and made him arrogant. He sought to fly to heaven on the back of Pegasos. Zeus was angered by his presumption and sent a gladfly to sting the horse. When Pegasus reared, the hero was plummeted back to earth. Afterwards he wandered the world alone and crippled till death, despised by gods and men.
  4. Medea in her parting speech says to her husband, “But you, as is fitting, shall die the miserable death of a coward, struck on the head by a piece of the Argo, having seen the bitter result of your marriage to me”. That’s how the Captain of the Argo died. Who was Medea cursing?
  5. He was kicked out of Athens, probably because of his habit of abducting women (which invariably brought wars to Athens and Attica–his enemies came to attack the polis to retrieve their women). He exiled to the islandc of Scyros but king Lycomedes threw him off the cliff to the sea beneath and killed him.
  6. This mortal died at the hands of both Paris and Apollo, murdered treacherously while engaged in sacrifices and sacred oaths, of which he made Apollo a witness. The poisoned arrow is fabled to have struck his heel. Who we talking about?
  7. Protesilaus says that at eighteen he also sailed to Hellas, when he was a guest of Menelaos and seized Helen because of her beauty, and that he was not yet thirty years old when he died along with almost all the other men in Troy. Who is he?
  8. Laura says, “I suppose that the most famous jilted lover would have to be this man. After he killed Deiphobus, he intended to kill Helen, but when he saw her breast, he was overcome by her beauty and took her back instead.
  9. When Achilles got mad at Agamemnon, he wanted to kill him right then and there and get it over with—and probably would have, if it weren’t for this grey-eyed goddess’ intervention.
  10. “Medea raises her cry to Zeus’s former wife, the goddess of oaths, the goddess who brought her to Hellas across the sea through the dark salt-water over the briny gateway of the Black Sea, a gateway few traverse. This ancient goddess ‘brought her to Hellas’ in that she came to Greece relying on Jason’s oath.” Who is this serene Lady?
  11. Cassandra, initially mute, bursts out a horrified torrent of words before speaking her premonitions and disappearing quietly behind the screens to be revealed later lying forgotten while Klytemnetra drags her dead husband’s corpse forward. Who is Cassandra’s dead lover?

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