Classics 106 - Test 5

Question 1

Theseus

Answer 1

• son of aethra & aegeus

- raised by mother and sent to father when he was strong/old enough

Question 2

Cecrops

Answer 2

• half-man, half-serpant

- claimed by Athenians as basis of their origin

Question 3

Procne

Answer 3

• wife of tereus
• sends for sister who gets raped by procne’s husband
• serves son to husband
• turned into nightingale after incident

Question 4

Philomena

Answer 4

• sister of procne
• repeatedly raped & tongue cut out by Tereus after he fell in love with her
• turned to a swallow

Question 5

Tereus

Answer 5

• husband of procne
• father of Itys
• served child as punishment for what he did to wife’s sister

Question 6

Itys

Answer 6

• child of tereus & philomena

- served to father after he raped wife’s sister

Question 7

Aegeus

Answer 7

• father of theseus
• king of athens
• dies when theseus comes home without changing the black sail

Question 8

Aethra

Answer 8

• princess of troezen

- mother of theseus after affair with aegeus

Question 9

Hippolytus

Answer 9

• youth who rejected advances of phaedra

- cursed by theseus and zeus after he “raped” her

Question 10

Phaedra

Answer 10

• wife of theseus
• sister of ariadne
• falls for hippolytus who rejects her
• commits suicide after claiming he raped her

Question 11

Pirithous

Answer 11

• son of Ixion
• king of lapiths
• tried to kidnap queen of the dead

Question 12

Erichthonius

Answer 12

• early king of athens, succeeded cecrops

- born when athena being pursued by hephaestus wipes his seed of her leg on piece of wool and throws it to the ground

Question 13

Erechtheus

Answer 13

-brother of procne & philomena

Question 14

Pandion

Answer 14

• father of pronce, philomena, erechtheus

- suceeded erichthonius

Question 15

Minotaur

Answer 15

• half-man, half-bull

- king minos required 7 athenian maidens/young men to be sacrificed to bull

Question 16

Ariadne

Answer 16

• helped theseus slay minotaur
• since she shamed her family, she travels to athens with him
• theseus leaves her in sleep > saved & immortalized by Dionysus

Question 17

Thebes

Answer 17

• Boetia “cow-land”

- cadmeians/cadmea

Question 18

Cadmus

Answer 18

• went to search for sister after she is kidnapped by Zeus
• married daughter of ares & aphrodite (harmonia)
• children semele, ino, agave

Question 19

Antiope

Answer 19

• zethus & aphion > children with zeus

- betrayed by sister dirce

Question 20

Dirce

Answer 20

• aunt of zethus and amphion

- killed by bull set on her by nephews for betrayal

Question 21

Oedipus

Answer 21

• destined to kill father Laius and marry/breed with mother Jocasta
• after he fulfills his destiny and realizes what he did, gauges his eyes out and wanders alone as poor man

Question 22

sphinx

Answer 22

winged lion with woman’s head

Question 23

siren

Answer 23

bird with human head, typically female

Question 24

Adrastus

Answer 24

• king of argos
• dies with Polynices in seven against thebes
• rescued from death by winged horse Arion

Question 25

Jason

Answer 25

• father aeson, brother of pelias
• raised by centaur chiron when exiled by Pelias
• fathered a son with one lemnos woman
• sent to fetch golden fleece that “flew” to king aeetes in aea
• king did not want to part with it > sent jason on tasks

Question 26

Argo/Argonauts

Answer 26

• lemnos: populated by foul smelling women who killed their husbands
• rescue blind seer phineus from harpies

Question 27

Medea

Answer 27

• falls for jason, helps him get the fleece
• kills brother/dissects him
• has two sons with jason
• enraged when husband has to marry young princess
• kills her and the king through wedding gifts
• kills children and jason
• escapes to athens where she marries aegeus
• soon banished when she tries to kill theseus

Question 28

Meleager

Answer 28

• destined to live as long as a log
• father Oeneus/mother Althea
• killed his uncles
• killed

Question 29

Atalanta

Answer 29

• female warrior who was nearly impossible to beat
• in funeral games of Pelias, she wrestled achilles father
• races suitors to find her mate
• hippomenes wins

Question 30

Bellerophon

Answer 30

• hero from corinth
• had pegasus>winged horse born from severed head of medusa
• acidentally killed someone > purified by king of tiryns/argos
• queen claimed he raped her b/c he would not be her lover
• offered lycian princess as rewards from Iobates
• not satisfied, tried to fly to olympus but fell and died
• pegasus made it

Question 31

Proetus

Answer 31

• king of tiryns/argos
• purified bellerophon
• later exiled him to Iobates for “raping” his queen

Question 32

Iobates

Answer 32

• king of lycia

- sent bellerophon on dangerous tasks

Question 33

chimera

Answer 33

lion with she-goat head on back and snake tail

Question 34

Procrustes

Answer 34

-man who altered people to fit his beds

Question 35

Pasiphae

Answer 35

• daughter of helius [sun-god]
• wife of minos
• mother of ariadne, phaedra, and androgeus

Question 36

Daedalus

Answer 36

-great craftsman imprisioned by minos to create labyrith for minotaur he ‘helped’ create

Question 37

Icarus

Answer 37

• took wings made by father to escape crete

- flew too close to the sun and fell to his death

Question 38

Pelias

Answer 38

• evil king/uncle of Jason

- killed by daughters who were tricked by Medea (sorceress linked to hera)