Aeschylus

Question 1

The Persians

Answer 1

Based on battle of Salamis

Question 2

Darius

Answer 2

In the Persians, says Xerxes hubris caused Persian defeat

Question 3

Xerxes angered the gods by ____.

Answer 3

Building a bridge across the Hellespont

Question 4

Eteocles and Polynices

Answer 4

sons of Oedipus

Question 5

Polynices wages war because

Answer 5

Eteocles refuses to step down from throne. They had agreed to alternate.

Question 6

Chronicles the struggle for Thebes after Oedipus died

Answer 6

Seven against Thebes

Question 7

The Suppliants

Answer 7

the Danaids flee a forced marriage in Egypt and ask for protection from Argos

Question 8

The King of Argos refuses to accept the Danaids until

Answer 8

The people of Argos democratically weigh in on the decision

Question 9

The only complete trilogy of Greek plays by any playwright still extant

Answer 9

The Oresteia

Question 10

Wife of Agamemnon

Answer 10

Clytemnestra

Question 11

Clytemnestra was angry at Agamemnon because he

Answer 11

sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to stop a storm hindering the Greeks from reaching Troy

Question 12

Cassandra

Answer 12

Trojan prophetess who foretells the death of Agamemnon and herself, no one listens

Question 13

The Libation Bearers

Answer 13

Orestes returns from exile to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus

Question 14

Clytemnestra’s lover

Answer 14

Aegisthus

Question 15

Orestes tricks Clytemnestra by

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pretending to be a herald bringing news of his own death

Question 16

Electra

Answer 16

Orestes’ sister, meets him at Agamemnon’s tomb, they plan revenge

Question 17

The Eumenides

Answer 17

Athena renames the Furies this, meaning the Kindly Ones

Question 18

The furies drive Orestes from Argos because

Answer 18

The avenge kin slaying

Question 19

Orestes fleas to the temple of Apollo because

Answer 19

Apollo encouraged him to kill Clytemnestra

Question 20

Apollo sends Orestes to

Answer 20

The temple of Athena in Athens

Question 21

Athena holds a trial for Orestes, and the vote is

Answer 21

tied. Orestes is acquitted.

Question 22

The Eumenides represent

Answer 22

the importance of reason in the development of laws

Question 23

Prometheus is bound to a rock because

Answer 23

He gave fire to humans

Question 24

Hephaestus, Oceanus, the Oceanids, and Io

Answer 24

Express sympathy for Prometheus

Question 25

Prometheus’ liver

Answer 25

constantly regenerates and is eaten by an eagle

Question 26

Zeus sends Prometheus into the abyss because

Answer 26

Prometheus refuses to divulge the secret of a marriage that could prove Zeus’ downfall (to Thetis)

Question 27

Clytemnestra sends Electra to pour libations because

Answer 27

of a nightmare where she gives birth to a snake.