In the first book of the Ars Amatoria, this woman holds a "beating heart" after a "bloody priest" "feigns some holy rite of sacrifice" on her competition.
In the first book of the Ars Amatoria, this woman holds a "beating heart" after a "bloody priest" "feigns some holy rite of sacrifice" on her competition. Cicero claimed that ephors received prophetic dreams by sleeping at a shrine to this woman in Thalamae. One of this woman's children was accidentally murdered by his own son Althaemenes, while another of her sons died after winning all the prizes in the Panathenaic Games and being ambushed by his jealous rivals. The seer Polyidus found another of this woman's children after that child drowned in a jar of honey. This mother of Androgeos, Catreus, and Glaucus cursed her husband byforcing him to ejaculate scorpions and spiders when he was unfaithful. She released Icarus and Daedalus in exchange for Daedalus's earlier help in allowing her to satisfy a curse laid by Poseidon that resulted in the conception of Asterion. For 10 points, name this wife of Minos, the mother of the Minotaur.
In the first book of the Ars Amatoria, this woman holds a "beating heart" after a "bloody priest" "feigns some holy rite of sacrifice" on her competition.
Pasiphae