CLAS230 Classical Mythology
Department of Classics
Monmouth College

Geography List for Tragic Hero Theme

You should know the significance of each of the following places and be able to find each place on a map. The words in BOLD CAPITALS are the places you should know. The other words are hints at the significance of the place.

AEGEAN SEA
Aegeus

ARCADIA
Hermes
Pan

ARGOLID
(MYCENAE, TIRYNS, and ARGOS)
Heracles
Hera
Perseus
Bellerophon
House of Atreus
Agamemnon
Menelaus
Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Libation Bearers; the Electras of Sophocles and Euripides

ATHENS
Athena (and Poseidon)
Theseus
Aegeus (and Medea)
Aeschylus' Agamemnon
Euripides' Hippolytus and Seneca's Phaedra

CORINTH
Sisyphus
Jason and Medea
Oedipus

CRETE (and KNOSSOS)
Minos
Theseus
Daedalus and Labyrinth
Zeus
Euripides' Hippolytus and Seneca's Phaedra

DELOS
Apollo and Artemis

DELPHI
Apollo
Dionysus
Oedipus

ELEUSIS
Demeter

EPHESUS
Artemis

HELLESPONT
Helle

ITHACA
Odysseus

LEMNOS
Hephaistos
Philoctetes
Jason and Argonauts
Sophocles' Philoctetes

MT. OLYMPUS
abode of the gods

OLYMPIA
Zeus
Pelops
Heracles

PELOPONESSUS
Pelops
Labors of Heracles

SOUNION
Poseidon

THEBES
Ares
Dionysus
Cadmus
Tiresias
Oedipus and his family
Sophocles' Oedipus plays and Antigone
Euripides' Bacchae

THESSALY
Jason
Admetus and Alcestis
Euripides' Alcestis

THRACE
Ares
Orpheus

TROY
Trojan War
Achilles
Hector
Euripides' Trojan Women
Sophocles' Philoctetes  and Ajax

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This material has been published on the web by Prof. Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can contact him at toms@monm.edu.

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