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Instead, Laius carried him off to Thebes and raped him, a crime for which he, his city, and his family were later punished by the gods. [4] Others named as Chrysippus' kidnappers Zeus [5] and even Theseus. [6] In one version Chrysippus' father Pelops, following his son's abduction, curses Laius to be killed by one of his own children. [7]
Medea About to Murder Her Children by Eugène Ferdinand Victor Delacroix (1862) In Euripides's play Medea, she is a woman scorned, rejected by her husband Jason and revenge seeking. Deborah Boedeker writes about different images and symbolism Euripides used in his play to evoke responses from his original Athenian audience. [36]
Claudius killed King Hamlet, his brother, and married his sister-in-law, Gertrude, in order to become King of Denmark in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.; In the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal, Margot Verger kills her brother Mason as revenge for his abuse of her when they were younger, as she was encouraged to do by her former therapist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Clytemnestra (/ ˌ k l aɪ t ə m ˈ n ɛ s t r ə /, [1] UK also / k l aɪ t ə m ˈ n iː s t r ə /; [2] Ancient Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα, romanized: Klutaimnḗstra, pronounced [klytai̯mnɛ̌ːstraː]), in Greek mythology, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Sparta.
Still from Universal's film Damon and Pythias (1914). In 1564, the material was made into a tragicomic play by the English poet Richard Edwardes (Damon and Pythias).; The best-known modern treatment of the legend is the German ballad Die Bürgschaft, [2] written in 1799 by Friedrich Schiller, based on the Gesta Romanorum version.
Animated films based on classical mythology, the myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Pages in category "Animated films based on classical mythology" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
In Greek mythology, Apate (/ ˈ æ p ə t iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἀπάτη Apátē) is the goddess and personification of deceit. Her mother is Nyx, the personification of the night. [1] [2] In Roman mythology her equivalent is Fraus (Fraud), while her male counterpart is Dolus (Deception), and her opposite number Aletheia, the goddess of truth.
The Farnese Atreus (1574 engraving by Antonio Lafreri and Cornelis Cort) depicts Atreus and one of the sons of Thyestes. In Greek mythology, Atreus (/ ˈ eɪ t r i ə s / AY-tri-əs, / ˈ eɪ t r uː s / AY-trooss; [1] Ἀτρεύς Ancient Greek pronunciation:) [a] was a king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.