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1. Phaedra, wife of Theseus, fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus and tried to seduce him, but he remained indifferent. In vengeance, she accused him of trying to rape her. Theseus asked which god to punish his son?
2. Clytemnestra plotted with her lover, Aegisthus, to kill her husband Agamemnon. They murdered Agamemnon and his lover, the prophetess Cassandra. What was the subsequent fate of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra?
3. Menelaus was Agamemnon's brother. He was married to Helen, the most beautiful woman on Earth. But Helen ran off with Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy. This led to the Trojan war. Did Menelaus manage to get her back?
4. Medea, a famous sorceresses, fell in love with Jason, the leader of the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece and helped him to get it. They got married and had two children. But Jason broke up with her in order to marry Creusa, the daughter of the Corinthian king Creon. Medea took her vengeance - how?
5. The goddess of love, Aphrodite, was married to the crippled god of fire, Hephaestus, but was unfaithful to him. Among her many mortal lovers the most famous was perhaps Adonis. What happened to him?
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