Apollodorus Mythology Questions Part B Flashcards
Who gave Hippolyta her zona/zoner (belt/girdle)?
Ares
What daughter of Eurystheus wanted the girdle of Hippolyta?
Admete
Name the father of Amphitryon.
Alcaeus
Who was the founder of the Teleboans?
Taphios
Who was the daughter of Mestor and Lysidice? Who was Lysidice’s father)?
Hippothoe
Name the son of Taphios.
Pterelaus
Who had golden hair?
Pterelaus
Who was the step-grandfather of Heracles?
Alcaeus
What son of Perseus was father of Eurystheus?
Sthenelus
What son of Perseus and Andromeda who was left with Cepheus in Ethiopia?
Perses
On this island, the sons of Minos killed some of Hercules’ group. Before what labor?
the island of Peros before the ninth labor
Heracles took these two sons of Androgeus as his captives from Paros
Alcaeus and Sthenelus (different ones)
Heracles helped this king of Mysia against the Berbycians. Who was the Berbycian king?
He helped Lycus and fought Mygdon
What brother of Amycus king of the Berbycians did Heracles kill?
Mygdon
Who ruled Heracleia?
Lycus
What woman incited the Amazonians to war against Heracles?
Hera
Who was the daughter of Laomedon?
Hesione
What did Heracles demand as payment for slaying the Trojan sea monster? Who gave them to whom?
He demanded the mares that Zeus gave to Tros as compensation for abducting Ganymede
Who sent a plague upon Troy after the king refused to pay him?
Apollo
What king of Ainos entertained Heracles?
Poltys
Name the father of Poltys and Sarpedon.
Poseidon
Heracles killed this brother of Poltys and son of Poseidon on Aions
Sarpedon
What island populated by Thracians did Heracles subjugate? Whom did he give it to rule?
He subjugated Thasos and gave it to the sons of Androgeus
What sons of Proteus and grandsons of Poseidon challenged Heracles to a wrestling match, and where?
Polygonos and Telegonos at Torone
Where were the cattle of Geryon?
Erytheia
Who was the son of Chrysaor and Calirrhoe?
Geryon
Who had the body of three men joined in one at the waist?
Geryon
Who owned red cattle?
Geryon
Who was the herder of Geryon?
Eurytion
What two-headed dog was the son of Echidna and Typhon?
Orthrus
Name the two-headed dog who guarded the cattle of Geryon.
Orthrus
Where did Heracles erect two pillars?
The boundaries of Europe and Libya
Who aimed his bow at the sun?
Heracles
Who gave Heracles a goblet which he used to traverse the seas?
The Sun
Who pastured the cattle of Hades?
Menoites
Who informed Geryon that Heracles was stealing Geryon’s cattle?
Menoites
What sons of Poseidon tried to rob Heracles of his cattle in Liguria?
Ialebion and Dercynos
What son of Poseidon, received the bull that escaped from Rhegium?
Eryx
Italy was named after a Geryonian bull broke out from where?
Rhegion
Heracles defeated this son of Poseidon in a wrestling match three times. What did he get back?
Eryx. The bull that escaped in Rhegion
What did Hera send after the cattle of Geryon when Heracles had them in his possession?
Gadfly
What river did Heracles blame for his loss of the cattle of Geryon, making it unnavigable by piling it with rocks?
Strymon
How long did it take Heracles to complete his first ten labors?
eight years and a month
What prizes were kept in the land of the Hyperboreans, near Mount Atlas?
the golden apples from the hesperides
The dragon guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides was an offspring of whom, and how many heads did he have?
a hundred
Whom did Eurystheus sacrifice the cattle of Geryon to?
Hera
Who gave whom the golden apples of the Hesperides?
Ge gave Zeus the apples at his wedding to Hera
Name the Hesperides.
Aigle, Erytheia, Hesperia, and Arethousa
What son of Ares and Pyrene lived on the river Echedorus and challenged Heracles to single combat?
Cycnus
What god wanted to avenge his son by challenging Heracles to single combat? Who stopped them and how?
Ares. Zeus stopped them with a lightning bolt
Who told Heracles the location of the golden apples of the Hesperides?
Nereus
What son of Poseidon was defeated in a wrestling match by Heracles?
Antaeus
What son of Gaia (or Poseidon) was defeated by Heracles in a wrestling match though he regained his strength by touching the earth?
Antaeus
What daughter of Epaphus was the mother of Busiris?
Lysianassa
What ruler of Egypt and son of Poseidon and Lysianassa habitually sacrificed foreigners on the altar of Zeus?
Bousiris
What skilled diviner prophesied that Busiris king of Egypt must sacrifice foreigners on an altar of Zeus? What happened to him?
Phrasios and Bousiris killed him as tribute
What king, to avert the barrenness…..of his native land Egypt…..?
Bousiris
What son of Busiris was killed by Heracles alongside his father?
Amphidamas
What son of Augeas vouched for Heracles?
Phyleus
Where did Heracles release a bullock from a cart of a drover?
Thermydrai
What son of Tithonus did Heracles kill in Arabia?
Emathion
Who was the father of the eagle who feasted on Prometheus’ liver?
Typhon
Who told Heracles how to trick Atlas?
Prometheus
She took back the golden apples of the Hesperides from Heracles
Athena
What dog had the tail of a dragon?
Cerberus
Who purified Heracles of the murder of the Centaurs?
Eumolpus
Heracles drew his sword against this phantom in the underworld
Medusa
He was one of two phantoms not to run from Heracles in the underworld
Meleager
What son of Ceuthonymos challenged Heracles to a wrestling match in the underworld? Who interceded for him on behalf of Heracles?
Menoites. Persephone interceded
Near the gates of what river did Heracles capture Cerberus?
Acheron
What king of Oichalia offered his daughter to the winner of an archery contest?
Eurytus
He offered his daughter to the winner of an archery contest
Eurytus
What man, the eldest son of Eurytos, supported giving Iole to Heracles?
Iphitus
He stole cattle from Euboea?
Autolycus
Who was hurled from the walls of Tiryns by Heracles?
Iphitus
Who traded Tiryns for Argos with Perseus?
megapenthes
What hero thought it wrong to accept an inheritance which came as the result of his killing action?
Perseus
Who refused to purify Heracles of the murder of Iphitus?
Neleus
Who purified Heracles of the murder of Iphitus?
Deiphobus
Who was the daughter of Iardanos and queen of Lydia?
Omphale
Whom did Heracles serve as a slave after he killed Iphitus?
Omphale
What husband of Omphale left her the kingdom of Lydia?
Tmolos
What brigand compelled strangers to dig in his vineyard until he was killed by Heracles? Who was his daughter?
Syleus. Xenodice
Who named the island Doliche Icaria after finding Icarus’ body there?
Heracles
Who found Icarus’ body?
Heracles
Who made a statue in Pisa of Heracles?
Daedalus
Who refused payment to Heracles for the hero’s servitude to Omphale?
Eurytus
Heracles captured these two at Ephesus
The Cercopes
Whom did Heracles leave to guard his ships while he attacked Troy?
Oicles
Who killed Oicles?
Laomedon
What hero was the first to enter the walls of Troy, angering Heracles?
Telamon
Who built a makeshift statue to Heracles the Noble Victor to appease him after preceding Heracles in entering the walls of Troy?
Telamon
To whom did Heracles gave Laomedon’s daughter Hesione as a prize?
Telamon
What woman chose Podarces as the one person she was allowed to take from Troy?
Hesione
Who sent violent storms against Heracles following the sack of Troy, and was suspended from Olympus?
Hera
What king of Cos, a son of Poseidon and Asypalaia, was killed by Heracles?
Eurypylos
By whom was Heracles wounded at Cos before Zeus snatched Heracles away?
Chalcodon
Who employed the Elean generals Eurytus and Cteatus when Heracles attacked him?
Augeias
What sons of Molione and Actor were killed by Heracles at an ambush in Cleonai, as punishment for aiding Augeas?
Eurytus and Cteatus
Whom did Heracles give the kingdom of Elis following Augeias’ death?
Phyleus
After what event did Heracles found the Olympic Games?
After sacking the city of Elis
Who was the bravest of Neleus’ sons, and the only one able to change shapes?
Periclymenus
What god came to Neleus’ aid when Heracles attacked Pylos?
Hades
Whose sons was Heracles attacking when he attacked Laicedaimon?
Hippocoon’s
Whose sons killed the son of Licymnius after he was mauled by a Molossian hound?
Hippocoon’s
What did Athena give Heracles? (vague, but think)
She gave Heracles Cepheus’ willing to join the battle against the Lacedaimonians
Who am I? I received a lock of Medusa’s hair in a bronze jar from Heracles. Who was my father?
Sterope. Cepheus
Because he feared the Argives would attack Tegea if he left it, who refused to help Heracles fight against the sons of Hippocoon?
Cepheus
Whom did Heracles give the city of Hippocoon to after he killed Hippocoon and his sons?
Tyndareus
Whom did Heracles rape at Tegea?
Auge
Who was the daughter of King Aleus?
Auge
Name the woman who hid her baby in the sanctuary of Athena, but her father discovered it when there was a plague.
Auge
What king exposed his daughter’s baby on Mount Parthenion?
Aleus
Whom did Aleos give Auge to in order to sell?
Nauplius
King Nauplius, son of Poseidon, gave Auge to what king to marry?
Teuthras
What daughter of Oineus was sought by Achelous?
Deianeira
Whose horn did Acheloos offer Heracles in exchange for his own?
Amaltheia
What city was ruled by Phylas
Ephyra
What daughter of Phylas, king of Ephyra, did Heracles have sex with?
Astyoche
Who was the son of Heracles and Astyoche, daughter of Phylas?
Tlepolemus
What son of Architeles did Heracles kill at the dinner table?
Eunomus
Who departed to Ceyx in Trachis after killing the son of Architeles by mistake?
Heracles
Who ferried travellers along the River Evenus?
The Centaur Nessus
Whom did Heracles shoot in the heart when he tried to rape Deianeira?
Nessus
Who was the son of Theiodamas?
Hylas
Heracles defeated the Dryopes after being entertained by what king?
Ceux
What Dorian king, assisted by Heracles, fought the Lapiths? Lapith commander?
Agimius. Coronus
What king of the Dryopes, an ally did Heracles kill with his children as he was feasting in the sanctuary of Apollo?
Laogoras
What son of Ares and Pelopia challenged Heracles to single combat as he was passing by Itonos?
Cycnus
What king of Ormenion would not allow Heracles to pass through?
Amyntor
What king of Oichalia did Heracles assemble an army against and kill?
Eurytus
Who told Deianeira that Heracles was in love with Iole?
Lichas
Who killed Heracles by rubbing his tunic with poisonous blood?
Deianeira
Whom did Heracles hurl into the Euboean sea
Lichas
What eldest son of his and Deianeira’s did Heracles instruct to marry Iole
Hyllus
Where did Heracles build a pyre and climb onto it?
Mount Oeta
Who, passing by in search of his flocks, set alight the pyre of Heracles and got Heracles’ bow and arrows in return?
Poias
Who were the parents of Alexiares and Anicetos?
Heracles and Hebe
Who persecuted the Heraclids following Heracles’ death?
Eurystheus
Whom did the Heraclids first take refuge with when Eurystheus persecuted them?
Ceux
What city got into a war with Eurystheus when he demanded they hand over the Heraclids?
Athens
Who killed Eurystheus?
Hyllus
Who gouged out the eyes of Eurystheus with pins?
Hyllus
What area was gripped by a plague since the Heraclids attacked it before their time? Where did the Heraclids relocate?
The Peloponnese. Marathon
What Heraclid went into exile at Rhodes for accidentally killing Licymnious?
Tlepolemus
Who was the father of Penelope?
Icarius
What son of Ocrisia and Vulcan was a Roman king?
Servius Tullius
What descendant of Heracles, upon consulting the Delphic oracle, was told that he should wait for the third harvest before returning to the Pelopponese?
Hyllus
What son of Orestes was king of the Pelopponese when Hyllus and the Heraclids attacked him?
Tisamenus
Who found out that Hyllus had misinterpreted the oracle about returning to the Pelopponese?
the sons or Aristomachus
Who was the last Pelopid?
Tisamenus
What king of Tegea defeated Hyllus in single combat?
Ehemus
Which Heraclid was struck by a thunderbolt?
Aristodemus
What son of Phylas hurled a javelin at a diviner at Naupactos?
Hippotes
Who lead the force that killed Tisamenus?
Temenus
What “Three-eyed One” did Temenus ask to serve as the Heraclids’ guide?
Oxylus
Name the son of Andraimon who was seated on a one-eyed horse and had fled to Elis when Temenos searched him out.
Oxylus
Who threw a clod of earth into a jug?
Cresphontes
He relied on his daughter Hyrneto and her husband, spurning his sons, and so was killed in a plot by them husband of Hyrneto, daughter of Temenus, he acquired Argos
Temenus
He acquired Argos in the drawing of the Heraclids
Temenus
He acquired Messene in the drawing of the Heraclids
Cresphontes
They acquired Laicedaimon in the Heraclid drawing
The sons of Aristodemus
Who was banished from the Heraclid camp for killing a diviner with a javelin at Naupactos?
Hippotes
He succeeded Cresphontes as king of Messene and forced Cresphontes’ wife to marry him. Who was his daughter?
Polyphontes. Merope
What son of Merope and Cresphontes, raised by Merope’s father, returned to Messene to kill Polyphontes?
Aipytus
Who were the sons of Poseidon and Libya?
Belus and Agenor
What here went to Phlegra….
Heracles
As he was sailing up the Nile, what son of Tithonus attacked Heracles without provocation?
Emathion
sons of Androgeus
Alcaeus and Sthenelus
whose children sat down at the altar of Pity at Athens?
Heracles’
where did the Heraclids settle after leaving the Pelopponese?
Marathon
who accidentally killed Licymnius…
Tlepolemus
father of Temenus
Aristomachus
Who defeated Hyllus?
Ehemus
who prepared his army at Naupactos and gave it its name?
Temenus
this Heraclid, father of Eurysthenes and Procles by Argeia, was struck dead by a thunderbolt at Naupactos
Aristodemus
what son of Phylas hurled a javelin at a diviner who came to Temenos?
Hippotes
son of Andraimon, he was a “three eyed one”
Oxylus
Whom did the Delphic Oracle tell to take the “three eyed one” as his guide?
Hippotes
He wanted to be allotted Messene, so he threw a clot of earth into a water jug
Cresphontes
Heraclid who acquired Argos
Temenus
Heraclid brothers who acquired Laicedaimon
Sons of Aristodemus
His sons murdered him when he spurned them, since he went to his daughter Hyrneto and her husband Deiphontes for advice rather than his sons.
Temenus
Widow of Cresphontes, king of Messene
Merope
Who usurped Cresphontes’ rule in Messene?
Polyphontes
Son of Cresphontes and Merope, he returned and killed Polyphontes
Aipytus
He forced Cresphontes’….wife to marry him
Polyphontes
What son of Libya and Poseidon, became king of Egypt?
Belus
Who was the wife of Agenor?
Telephassa
Daughter of Agenor and Telephassa
Europa
Father of Phoenix and Cilix, as well as two other children
Agenor
He took the form of a bull whose breath smelled like roses
Zeus
Sons of Zeus and Europa
Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon
According to Homer, who was the mother of Sarpedon?
Laodameia
Mother of Cadmus
Telephassa
Brother of Phoenix and Cilix
Cadmus
He married Europa and raised her children by Zeus
Asterios
He was the boy whom Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys quarrelled over. Who were his parents?
Miletos
Daughter of Cleochos, she was mother of Miletos by Apollo
Areia
Sarpedon joined this king
Cilix
He fled to Caria after Minos got mad, and named a city after himself
Miletos
He preferred Sarpedon
Miletos
Zeus gave him the privilege of living for three generations
Sarpedon
Who married Alcmene after Amphitryon’s death?
Rhadamanthys
Daughters of Helios and Perseis
Circe, Pasiphae
The nymph Pareia bore the sons of what king?
Minos
Following this man’s death, Minos tried to become king of Crete
Asterius
He was sent a magnificent bull from Poseidon
Minos
She enlisted the help of Daidalos
Pasiphaë
He built a wooden cow
Daidalos
She used a wooden cow to sleep with a bull
Pasiphaë
He was called the Minotaur (i.e. what was the Minotaur’s real name?)
Asterion
Father of Catreus
Minos
Daughters of Catreus
Aerope, Clymene, Apemosyne
He tried to keep the oracle saying he would die at the hands of a child secret
Catreus
He sailed away from Crete to Rhodes when he found out about an oracle that he might murder his father
Althaimenes
Sister of Althaimenes, she accompanied him from Crete to Rhodes
Apemosyne
She was raped by Hermes when he spread freshly skinned animal hides on her path and tripped her
Apemosyne
He kicked his sister when she told him she had been raped by Hermes, and killed her thereby
Althaimenes
He came to Rhodes and named part of it Cretinia
Catreus
He gave his daughters to Nauplios. Who were his daughters?
Aerope and Clymene
She was given to Atreus to marry
Aerope
She married Nauplius
Clymene
Mother of Oeax and Palamedes
Clymene
Cowherds in Rhodes could not hear him because of barking dogs, leading to him being killed by a javelin
Catreus
He prayed to be swallowed up by a chasm when he accidentally killed his father
Althaimenes
Son of Deucalion, he succeeded Catreus as king of Crete
Idomeneus
He led the Cretans in the Trojan War
Idomeneus
He usurped the throne of Idomeneus of Crete
Leucus
He fell into a jar of honey and drowned while searching for a mouse
Glaucus
They told him to find a three colored cow in his herd, and whoever could divine about it…
Polyidus
Father of Glaucus, he enlisted Polyeides
Minos
This descendant of Melampus was associated with Corinth
Polyidus
He was shut in with Glaucus’ dead body
Polyidus
He killed a snake, only to see another snake use a magic herb to revive its buddy
Polyidus
Son of Coiranos
Polyidus
He spit into the mouth of someone else (?), losing his ability to divine
Glaucus
He taught Glaucus divination under compulsion
Polyidus
His herds had the cow which Cadmus sought
Pelagon
Which goddess did Cadmus want to sacrifice the cow to?
Athene
Following the advice of Athena, he sowed….
dragon’s teeth
Name the Spartoi who survived Cadmus’s stones
Cthonious, Hyperenor, Oudaios, Pelorus, Echion
Who gave Harmonia to Cadmus?
Zeus
Daughter of Ares and Aphrodite?
Harmonia
Site of the Theban citadel
Cadmeia
Where was Cadmus and Harmonia’s wedding feast?
Cadmeia
Who gave Cadmus the necklace he gave to Harmonia? who gave it to that person? who gave it to that person?
Hephaistus; Europa; Zeus
Son of Cadmus and Harmonia
Polydorus
Four daughters of Cadmus and Harmonia
Autonoe, Agave, Ino, Semele
Nurse of Semele whose form Hera assumed
Beroe
How old was Dionysus when Semele died and Zeus snatched him up?
six months
Whose sisters spread the tale that she had slept with a mortal but falsely claimed to have slept with Zeus, and thus was struck down with a thunderbolt?
Semele’s sisters
Whom did Zeus hand Dionysus to?
Hermes
Whom did Hermes give Dionysus to ? What was peculiar about how he instructed them to raise Dionysus?
Ino and Athamas; raise him as a girl
What son did Athamas believe was a deer and shoot with an arrow?
Actaeon
Ino jumped into the sea with what child?
Melicertes
Known as Palaimon
Melicertes
Known as Leucothea
Ino
Who founded the Isthmian Games, and in honor of whom?
Sisyphus in Melicertes’ honor
These nymphs raised Dionysus. Where did they live?
Nysa in Asia
Seven stars in the constellation Taurus
Hyades
Zeus made them a constellation with the face of a bull for safely delivering Dionysus to Ino
Hyades
Son of Autonoe and Aristaeus
Actaeon
Where was Actaeon devoured by his own hounds?
Cithairon
He brought up Actaeon
Chiron
What hunter fell asleep by a spring….
Actaeon
How many dogs did Actaeon have?
fifty
Who discovered the vine, and who drove him mad?
Dionysus; Hera
King of Egyptians, he welcomed Dionysus
Proteus
Great mother-goddess of Phrygia
Cybele
She purified Dionysus and taught him the rites of initiation, and came to be identified with Cybele
Rhea
He conquered India
Dionysus
Son of Dryas, he insulted Dionysus. where did he rule?
Lycurgus; Macedonia
The Edonians live by what river?
Strymon
He believed he was pruning a vine branch….when he killed his son. Who was his son?
Lycurgus; Dryas
She gave Dionysus refuge after Lycourgos expelled him
Thetis
He cut off his son’s limbs
Lycurgus
He was killed by horses when taken to Mount Pangaion by the Edonians
Lycurgus
He set up pillars marking the eastern border of the inhabited world
Dionysus
He set up pillars marking the western border of the inhabited world
Heracles
What Mountain in the thebes was the sight of Bacchic frenzy?
Cithairon
Parents of Pentheus
Agave and Echion
He inherited the Theban throne from Cadmus
Pentheus
She tore up her son, thinking he was a wild beast
Agave
He charted a voyage on a Tyrrhenian pirate ship to Naxos from Icarios
Dionysus
She was brought up from Hades and named Thyone by her son
Semele
They took Cadmus and Harmonia as their leaders as per an oracle
Encheleans
He became son of the Illyrians and had a son, Illyrios
Cadmus
Encheleans were fighting whom?
Illyrians
Second king of Thebes
Pentheus
Son of Cadmus
Polydorus
Third king of Thebes
Polydorus
Wife of Polydorus
Nycteis
Who sent Cadmus and Harmonia to the Illyrian Fields?
Zeus
Son of Polydorus king of Thebes
Nycteus
When Labdacus ascended the Theban throne as a boy, who were his guardians (give both first and second)?
Nycteus and Lycus
Fourth king of Thebes
Labdacus
Brother of Nycteus
Lycus
He was the guardian of Laius following Labdacus’ death
Nycteus
He seized power from the young Laius, initially being his guardian
Nycteus
They fled from Euboea to Thebes because they had killed Phlegyas
Nycteus and Lycus
Son of Ares and Dotis
Phlegyas
These brothers became Theban citizens as a result of friendship with Pentheus
Nycteus and Lycus
Daughter of Nycteus, Zeus had sex with her
Antiope
Son of Canace daughter of Aeolus, he became king of Sicyon when the previous king died without offspring
Epopeus
He married Antiope daughter of Nycteus
Lycus
He killed himself when his daughter ran away to Sicyon
Nycteus
He killed Epopeus of Sicyon and took Antiope prisoner
Lycus
Son of Antiope, he devoted himself to cattle rearing
Zethus
Lyre-playing son of Antiope
Amphion
Wife of Lycus of Thebes
Dirce
She mistreated Antiope daughter of Nycteus
Dirce
Her bonds untied themselves of their own accord, and she went to her sons
Antiope
They bound their step-mom to a bull
Amphion and Zethus
She has a spring named for her, being torn apart by a bull
Dirce
He took in Laius when Laius was expelled from Troy
Pelops
Bastard son of Pelops, he was abducted, BY WHOM?
Laius
City of Thebes derives its name from his wife
Zethus
She married Zethus
Thebe
Daughter of Tantalus, she married Amphion
Niobe
She boasted she was blessed with better children than Leto
Niobe
What hill were Niobe’s children hunting on when they were shot down by Apollo?
Cithairon
Eldest daughter of Niobe
Chloris
Wife of Neleus
Chloris
She went to stay with her father Tantalus after her children were shot down, turning into a weeping stone
Niobe
She prayed to Zeus to be turned into a weeping stone
Niobe
He took over the kingdom of Thebes following Amphion’s death
Laius
After the death of his children, he killed himself or stormed the temple of Apollo, provoking the god to shoot him
Amphion
Daughter of Menoiceus, she married a Theban king
Jocasta/Epicasta
What was Homer’s name for Laius’ wife?
Epicasta
He was exposed on Mount Cithairon
Oedipus
They raised Oedipus
Polybus and Merope
Foster son of Polybus and Merope of Corinth
Oedipus
She gave Oedipus his name
Merope
Oedipus was raised here
Corinth
Herald of Laius, he was killed by Oedipus
Polyphontes
He succeeded Laius to the throne of Thebes
Oedipus
Sister of Creon
Jocasta
Parents of Sphinx
Echidna and Typhon
Sent the Sphinx to Thebes
Hera
Where did the Sphinx perch?
Phicion
Who taught the riddle of the Sphinx to the Sphinx?
Muses
He was killed by the Sphinx and was a son of Creon
Haemon
All the children of Oedipus and Jocasta
Polyneices, Eteocles, Ismene, Antigone
According to some, she bore Oedipus his children, not Jocasta
Euryganeia
they gave him the haunch, a less honorable portion than the shoulder
Polyneices and Eteocles
She hanged herself (come up with as many women in classical mythology who hanged themselves as possible)
Jocasta
They put the golden goblet and silver table of Cadmus before him
Polyneices and Eteocles
He buried Laius
Damasistratos
Sophocles’ birthplace
Colonos
The ‘man of many quarrels’ according to Aeschylus
Polynieces
Grandson of Bias and son of Talaos
Andrastus
Seer was a descendant of Melampus
Amphiaraus
He brought the necklace and robe of Harmonia to Argos
Polyneices
He was expelled from Calydon
Tydeus
She threw her child by Poseidon into the sea
Chione
She married Tydeus
Deipyle
He married Argeia
Polyneices
Son of Oicles, he was a seer
Amphiaraus
An argive king descended from Proitos, he was a son of Alector. Polyneices came to him to ask how to get Amphiaraus to march against Thebes.
Adrastus
They swore to let Eriphyle mediate future conflicts
Adrastus and Amphiaraus
He told his sons to kill their mother when they got of age
Amphiaraus
According to some, this son of Alector was the mother of Eriphyle
Adrastus
Name the son of Everes and the nymph Chariclo. From which of the Spartoi was he descended?
Tiresias; Oudaios
His mother was a close friend of Athena, but Athena blinded him when he saw her naked
Tiresias
He saw snakes coupling on Mount Cyllene
Tiresias
Tiresias said the Thebans would be successful against Polyneices if this guy sacrificed himself. to what God?
Ares
Son of Poseidon, he killed Parthenopaeus in the seven against Thebes
Periclymenos
Last of the sons of Astacus, he wounded Tydeus
Melanippus
Who chased Amphiaraus along the River Ismenus?
Periclymenos
Charioteer of Adrastus
Baton (or Elaton)
She got the title Fury after Poseidon raped her
Demeter
Offspring of Poseidon and Demeter mating in horse form
Arion
Son of Eteocles, he became king of Thebes
Laodamus
He went to the Altar of Pity and asked Theseus to bury his dead
Adrastus
Father of Evadne
Iphis
She threw herself onto her husband’s pyre
Evadne
The ‘afterborn’
Epigoni
The god foretold victory for the Epigoni if he was their leader
Alcmaion
Son of Polyneices, he bribed Eriphyle. How?
Thersander; robe of Harmonia
Sons of Amphiaraus
Alcmaion and Amphilocus
Son of Adrastus, he was killed when marching with the Epigoni. How?
Aigialeus; killed by Laodamus
Who killed Laodamas son of Eteocles?
Alcmaion
He drank from a spring called Tilphoussa, his life coming to an end
Tiresias
They founded a city in Thessaly called Hestaia
Thebans/Epigoni
Daughter of Tiresias, she was sent to Apollo at Delphi following the Epigoni
Manto
He first went to Oicles in Arcadia after murdering his mom
Alcmaion
He purified Alcmaeon
Phegeus
He was told to go to Achelous and receive from him a land not yet seen by the sun
Alcmaion
He married Arsinoe. Who was Arsinoe’s father?
Arsinoe
Daughter of Phegeus, she married Alcmaeon
Arsinoe
She told Alcmaeon she would no longer live with him unless he got the necklace and robe of Harmonia
Arsinoe
They killed Alcmaeon after their father found out that he had been unfaithful
sons of Phegeus
Who rebuked her brothers, and was packed up in a chest as a result? To whom was she given to as a slave?
Arsinoe
Lover of Zeus, she asked him to let her sons become fully grown instantly
Arsinoe
Sons of Alcmaeon and Callirhoe
Amphoteros and Acarnan
Sons of Phegeus, they were killed by Amphoterus and Acharnan
Pronous and Agenor
They killed Phegeus and his wife
Amphoteros and Acarnan
His sons founded Acarnania
Alcmaion
Parents of Amphilochus and Tisiphone
Manto and Alcmaion
He gave his babies Amphilochus and Tisiphone to whom?
Creon
She was jealous of Tisiphone, and sold her into slavery
Creon’s Unnamed Wife
He purchased his own daughter as a slave unknowingly after she was sold into slavery by Creon’s jealous wife
Alcmaion
Son of Amyntor
Phoenix
Mother of Patroclus
Philomela
Who killed Cleitonymus
Phoenix
Son of Hermes and Herse
Cephalus
King of Athens with body of man and serpent joined into one
Cecrops
First and second names of Athens (at least according to Apollodorus)
Acte and Cecropia
King during the battle of Poseidon and Athena for Athens
Cecrops
According to Pausanias, first king of Attica
Actaios
Whom did Cecrops marry?
Agraulos
Children of Cecrops
Agraulos, Herse, Pandrosus
Whom did Aglauros daughter of Cecrops have sex with? Who was their daughter?
Ares; Alcippe
Son of Poseidon and the nymph Euryte, he tried to rape Alcippe. What happened to him?
Halirrhotius; killed by Ares
First defendant before the Areopagus (what was the Areopagus?)
Ares; giant court rock
Parents of Tithonus
Cephalus and Eos
Son of Sandocus and Pharnace
Astynoos
His daughters slept with foreigners and finished their lives in Egypt due to Aphrodite’s wrath
Pygmalion
He founded Paphos
Cinyras
Wife of Cinyras
Metharme
Cinyras was king where? two versions
King of Assyrians or Cyprus
She prayed to the gods to be made invisible
Smyrna
Successor to Cecrops, he was the second (or third) king of Athens
Cranaos
It was during his reign that Deucalion’s flood took place (Athenian king)
Cranaos
He named the country Attica after his daughter, whom he fathered on Pedias daughter of Mynes
Cranaos
Daughter of Icarios and her pet dog
Erigone and Maira
He drove out Amphictyon
Erichthonios
Father of Cranaos
Deucalion
Who drove out Cranaos?
Amphictyon
Her sisters opened the box with Erichthonius
Pandrosus
He married Praxithea, a Naiad Nymph. Who was their son?
Erichthonios; Pandion
Pandion I asked Tereus king of Thrace (or…) to help him against whom?
Labdacos
He married his mother’s sister Zeuxippe
Pandion I
Children of Pandion I and Zeuxippe
Procne and Philomela
Son of Procne
Itys
Tereus was king where? (two places are possibilites)
Thrace
Procne, Philomela, and Tereus became what respectively?
nightingale, swallow, hoopoe
He received the kingdom of Athens from his father Pandion I.
Erechtheus
When his father Pandion I died, he received the priesthood of Athena and Poseidon Erectheus
Bootes
Daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea, she married Xuthus
Creusa
Daughter of Erectheus and Praxithea, she was carried off by a wind god
Orithyia
Daughter of Erectheus and Praxithea, she was given a golden crown to commit adultery
Procris
What king discharged harmful beasts into his paramour’s genitals because his wife had put a spell on him?
Minos :-)
She gave Minos a Circaean root to be able to sleep with him safely
Procris
Why did Procris want to sleep with Minos?
she wanted a dog and a javelin
A skilled huntress, she was killed by an errant javelin
Procris
She was playing by the river Ilissus when she was abducted
Orithyia
Daughters of Boreas and Orethyia
Cleopatra and Chione
They persuaded the Argonauts not to return for Heracles, and so they were killed by Heracles
Zetes and Calais
He blinded his sons because their stepmother accused them of trying to seduce her
Phineus
She accused her stepsons of trying to seduce her a) first and second wives of Phineus b) sons of Phineus
Cleopatra; Idaia; Plexippos and Pandion
She had intercourse with Poseidon, becoming the mother of Eumolpus
Chione
He was thrown into the sea by his mother, but was rescued by his father Poseidon and entrusted to a woman. WHAT woman?
Benthesicyme
Son of Poseidon, he tried to rape his wife’s sister, and was thus banished from the land
Eumolpus
Son of Eumolpus
Ismarus
What king did Eumolpus take refuge with when expelled for trying to rape his wife’s sister?
Tegyrios
He plotted against Tegyrios and so fled to the Eleusinians, but Tegyrios recalled him to Thrace and made him king
Eumolpus
He consulted an oracle which said he must sacrifice his youngest daughter to win against the Eleusinians; all his daughters killed themselves in consequence
Erechtheus
He offered his daughter in marriage to Eumolpus’ son
Tegyrios
He was killed by Erectheus in battle
Eumolpus
He destroyed the house of Erectheus; why?
Poseidon; Eumolpus was his son
His daughters swore a pact to die together
Erechtheus
He married Metiadousa and fathered Pandion
Cecrops
She married Boutes son of Pandion I
Chthonia
He was expelled by the sons of Metion in a revolt, fleeing Athens
Pandion II
Whose court did Pandion fly to once expelled by the sons of Metion from Athens? Whom did he marry?
Pylas in Megara; Pylia
He killed his father’s brother Bias, transferring his kingdom to Pandion?
Pylas
His sons marched on Athens and drove out the sons of Metion, dividing the kingdom between themselves
Pandion II
Name the first and second wives of Aigeus.
Meta; Chalchiope
He went to Delphi and was told about a wineskin
Aigeus
King of Troezen, he got Aigeus drunk
Pittheus
Pittheus king of Troezen was the son of whom?
Pelops
To prove to Minos he was the son of Poseidon, he jumped into the sea to recover a golden ring
Theseus
These two men slept with Aithra on the same night
Poseidon and Aigeus
He defeated all others at the games of the Panathenaia in Athens
Androgeus
He was sacrificing to the Graces in Paros, but threw down his garland and flute when he heard of his son’s death
Minos
Former name of Megara (city)
Nisa
King of Megara
Nisos
He killed Scylla after she killed her father for him
Minos
The Athenians sacrificed this man’s daughters in order to get rid of the plague Minos prayed down upon them
Hyacinthos
Son of Eupalamos
Daidalus
He invented the saw using a snake’s jawbone
Daidalus
He was tried in the Areopagus after killing the son of his sister Perdix
Daidalus
Son of Hephaestus and Anticleia, he was the first brigand Theseus killed. What was he called?
Periphetes
Second brigand killed by Theseus, son of Polypemon and Silea
Sinis
Brigand who lived on the Isthmus of Corinth, referred to as Pityocamptes
Sinis
Name of the Crommyonian Sow, named after the woman who reared it
Phaia
Brigand who was the son of Pelops or Poseidon, Theseus killed him
Sciron
He kicked people off a cliff as they washed their feet
Sciron
son of Branchos and the nymph Argiope, he was the fifth brigand/beast Theseus killed
Cercyon
Theseus killed Cercyon how?
threw him up and slammed him down slammed him down welcome to the space SLAM featuring Theseus
What brigand did Theseus kill in Eleusis?
Cercyon
Brigand with lame feet who Theseus killed
Damastes
Sixth brigand killed by Theseus, he was also known as Damastes and Polypemon
Procrustes
He tied people to beds and cut off their legs, or stretch them
Procrustes
He sent his son against the Marathonian Bull
Aigeus
Son of Scyrios, Pandion passed him off as his own son
Aigeus
He sheltered Daedalus, killing Minos
Cocalus
How did Theseus kill the minotaur?
Ariadne helped him out and then killed him after a round of fisticuffs
