From John_Thorburn@baylor.edu Thu Oct 3 12:29:17 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id g93JSxFD086692 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:29:01 -0700 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Thu Oct 03 12:28:57 2002 -0700 Received: from FS-EXCHANGE1.baylor.edu (flopsy.baylor.edu [129.62.3.249]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id g93JSvIr004753 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 12:28:57 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Seductions Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:28:56 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Thorburn, John" To: According to Apollodorus (3.13.3), Acastus' wife Astydameia fell in love = with Peleus and attempted to seduce him. When Peleus refused, Astydamia = informed Peleus' wife (this was before his union with Thetis) that = Peleus was going to marry Acastus' daughter Sterope. Hearing this, = Peleus' wife hanged herself. Astydamia also told Acastus that Peleus had = attempted to rape her. Acastus took Peleus out to hunt on Mt. Pelion and = when Peleus fell asleep, Acastus, hoping Peleus would be killed, hid = Peleus' sword and left him on the mountain. When the defenseless Peleus = awoke, centaurs attacked him, but the centaur Chiron saved him and gave = him back his sword. : ) Thanks... John Thorburn John_Thorburn@baylor.edu Telephone (254-710-1399) Fax (254-710-1367) PO Box 97352 Waco, Texas 76798-7352 > ---------- > From: Diana Wright > Reply To: classics@u.washington.edu > Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2002 11:31 AM > To: Classics > Subject: Seductions >=20 > Iliad 6.160 & after tells of Anteia's attempted seduction of = Bellerophontes & her subsequent reprehensible behavior. Are there other = examples of this kind of seduction story in Greek mythology other than = Phaedra? > =20 > DW > =20 > =20 >=20 .