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There are many links below for the sources. Scroll to the bottom for
primary/secondary source links.
2005-2006
Medusa Mythology Exam Syllabus
Supporting Classics Education
Endorsed by the American Classical League
“The Life and
Times of Heracles”
Questions will
be related not only to Heracles but also to all of the circumstances
surrounding his myths.
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General
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Birth and
Family
o
Zeus,
Alcmene and Amphitryon
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Hera,
Eileythia and Galanthis
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Heracles,
Iphicles and the Snakes
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Education
(Linus,
et al.)
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Appearance
(Lion skin, bow and arrows, club)
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Wives and
Lovers
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Daughters of
Thespius
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Megara
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Deianeira
o
Iole
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Omphale
o
Hebe
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Death and
Immortality
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Poisoned
robe
o
Philoctetes
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Pallas in
the
Aeneid |
Twelve Labors
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Heracles’
Madness
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Delphi and
the Pythia
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Eurystheus
the “Taskmaster”
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Details of
each of the Twelve Labors
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Contemporaneous Adventures
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Centaurs
(Chiron, Pholus)
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Argonautica
(Hylas) http://omacl.org/Argonautica/
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Ademtus and
Alcestis
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Sack of Troy
(Laomedon, Hesione)
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Cacus and
Helios’ cattle
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Antaeus
Other Adventures:
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Servitude to
Omphale
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Gigantomachia
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Cepheus and
Sterope
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Nessus and
Deianeira
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This syllabus is
intended as a starting point for studying only. It is NOT intended to
outline the entire contents of the Examination.
QUESTION SOURCES:
Primary:
Apollodorus ,
The Library of Greek Mythology
(see section III The Family of
Inachus);
Apollonius,
Argonautica;
Homer,
Homeric Hymns,
Iliad;
(Iliad)
Ovid,
Metamorphoses;
(newer translation of
Metamorphoses-Adobe zip file)
Seneca, Hercules Furens;
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/heywoodj.q1a/heywoodj.q1a-1.html
Vergil, Aeneid
(Book 8)
Secondary:
T. Bulfinch,
The Age of Fable;
P. Grimal, The Dictionary
of Classical Mythology, E.
Hamilton,
Mythology;
M. Grant & Hazel, Who’s
Who in Classical Mythology,
M. Morford & Lenardon,
Classical Mythology;
S. Hornblower & Spawforth (eds.),
Oxford Classical Dictionary  
http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull19.html
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/heraklesrefs.html#origins
Image search of Heracles
Image search of Herakles
Image search of Hercules
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/labors.html: see many images
of Heracles
http://www.bartleby.com/181/191.html
this is not a source listed on the syllabus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles this is not a source listed
on the syllabus
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