Saga
Classical Mythology Saga Information
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- Chthonius
- Daughter of Dirce, marries Lycus and with him imprisons niece Antiope who had been impregnanted by Zeus and bore twins Amphion and Zethus. Twins grow up, liberate mother, kill Lycus and drag Dirce behind a bull.
- Teiresias
- Another descendent of Spartoi; son of nymph and mortal man, companion of cadmus, devotee of Dionysus; enjoyed both female and male boidily form, (struct copulating serpents, is changed into a woman for seven years); Hera angered by his view of sexual pleasure
- Cadmus
- Cadmus searching for sister is advised by Apollo to follow a cow; offends Ares by killing his serpent-child in course of sacrificing the cow; founds Thebes with help of Athena and five Spartoi; expiates pollution for killing Ares' son; is given Harmonia as wife (daughter of Aphrodite and Ares)
- Saga
- Perceptible relationship to history
- Ino's Story
- Second Wife of Athamas of Boeotia; tries to destroy her stepchildren Phrixus and Helle; urges Boeotian women to parch the seed grain; Interferes with Athamas' search for a solution; false oracle that he should sacrifice Phrixus; Nephelene tries to rescuse both her children; Ino leaps into sea and becomes Leocothea
- C. Heilbrun
- Follow either the romance or the quest plot, but not both and usually just romance.
- Cadmus and Thebes
- Founds city (Cadmeia); slays serpent; sows teeth (Spartoi); serves as slave; wins wife
- Laius' Curse
- While in exile, profanes the hospitality of Pelops, king of Elis by abducing his son Chrysippus; Pelops won Hippodameia in crooked chariot raice
- Daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia
- Ino, Autonoe, semele, Agave
- Thebans
- Remembered as civilizers, taught writing.
- History of Saga
- Late Bronze Age is most fruitful historical period for generating sagas - 1600 to 1100 BCE
- Son of Cadmus and Harmonia
- Polydorus
- Proppian motifs
- wondrous birth of hero; childhood challenges; enemies inspire hero to achieve; divine allies; difficult quests/obstacles; taboos; catabaseis; rewards; enlightenment through suffering
- Sagas Inspire/Based
- Sagas inspire lyric poetry, drama and visual arts, reflect history and customs
- Theban Saga
- Europa and Zeus, Tyrian Princes Europa abducted by Zeus in guise of bull.
- W. Burkert's Five Segments
- Girl leaves home; is secluded; is impregnated by god; suffers punishment; is rescued and gives birth to son