Collegiate Questions—Advanced Flashcards
Events of what sort were ended by the exchange of a scarlet belt and sword and the breaking of a helmet thong in books 7 and 3 of the Iliad, ending hopes of cutting the war short?
DUEL(S) // SINGLE COMBAT(S)
B1: After the duel in book 7 of the Iliad, what Trojan elder advocates for returning Helen?
ANTENOR
B2: Before the duel in book 3 of the Iliad, Helen identifies what Cretan, a frequent guest of hers?
IDOMENEUS
By sending a son of Mygdalion with 49 clay ships to Troy, what king of Cyprus had time to engage in an unwitting incestuous relationship with his daughter Myrrha?
CINYRAS
B1: Cinyras promised to send 50 real ships when he was visited by Menelaus, Odysseus, and what Greek herald, often paired with Eurybates?
TALTHYBIUS
B2: Apollodorus claims that Adonis was in fact simply the son of Cinyras and his wife, the daughter of Pygmalion. Name her.
METHARME [DO NOT ACCEPT “CENCHREIS”]
What deity, for whom four horses were thrown annually into the sea by Rhodians, exposed Ares and Aphrodite’s affair and spurned Clytie, who turned into a sunflower?
HELIOS
B1: What possible son of Helios was the only person to offer Heracles financial compensation for one of his labors, though he reneged on his offer?
AUGEAS
B2: What son of Heracles led the Rhodian contingent at Troy, where he was killed by Sarpedon?
TLEPOLEMUS
No flute player could enter the sanctuary of what man, who was accused of making advances on his stepmother Philonome and sent by his father Cycnus to an island near Troy that soon took his name?
TENES
B1: Who was the sister of Tenes that, for some reason, was also shipped along with him?
HEMITHEA
B2: Who was the flute player that bore false witness to Philonome’s accusations, and was stoned to death by Cycnus?
EUMOLPUS
The compass, the potter’s wheel, and the saw were all invented by what ingenious boy, who was flung off the Acropolis and turned into a partridge by his uncle Daedalus in a jealous rage?
PERDIX
B1: What son of Belus invented the first 2-prowed ship to aid in his escape from his twin brother?
DANAUS
B2: In what region, later ruled by Nyctimus, did a culture-hero named Pelasgus invent sheepskin coats and huts and teach men to eat acorns?
ARCADIA
A statue of what deity looked up to heaven in horror when her Trojan sanctuary was violated, after which she took a thunderbolt and struck Oileus’s son Ajax dead for his rape of Cassandra?
ATHENA
B1: Two suitors of Cassandra joined the Trojan side in the famous war in hopes of winning her hand. For 5 points, name either one.
COROEBUS / OTHRYONEUS
B2: Cassandra bore Agamemnon two children who were eventually killed by Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. For 5 points, name either one.
TELEDAMUS / PELOPS
On an island in the Black Sea, what Oceanid was startled by Rhea’s arrival during her affair with Cronus, after which she fled and gave birth to the centaur Chiron?
PHILYRA
B1: Into what did Zeus transform Philyra?
LINDEN / LIME TREE
B2: In lost tragedies, what granddaughter of Chiron was forced to expose her sons Aeolus and Boeotus, who were adopted by Theano and Metapontus?
MELANIPPE
What son of Alxion had one child who pretended to be a woman to reach Daphne and a daughter who murdered her bastard son Chrysippus, both of whom eclipse his deeds as king of Pisa?
OENOMAUS
B1: Identify one figure who is commonly named as Oenomaus’ mother.
HARPINA or (A)STEROPE
B2: Pelops was not the first to compete for Hippodameia’s hand, and Pausanias conveniently gives us all the names of her previous suitors, who all lost the chariot race. Name one of them.
ONE OF: MARMAX / ALCATH(O)US / EURYALUS / EURYMACHUS / CROTALUS / ACRIAS /
CAPETUS / LYCURGUS / LASIUS / CHALCODON / TRICOLONUS / ARISTOMACHUS / PRIAS /
PELAGON / AEOLIUS / CRONIUS / ERYTHRAS / EIONEUS
What island housed a magical garden in which fruit never died, ships that guided themselves without oarsmen, and gold and silver watch-dogs that guarded the palace of Alcinous?
CHERIA / PHAEACIA
(ACCEPT DREPANE / CORCYRA / CORFU)
B1: Scheria also housed Medea’s cave, which had originally been home to what woman?
MACRIS
B2: What goddess, who was indirectly referenced by the island’s original name “Drepane”, brought wealth to the island out of fondness for Macris?
DEMETER
In a Greek tragedy, who criticizes “the one who considers a friend more important than their own country” when he bans the burial of Polynices and condemns Antigone to death?
CREON
B1: What son of Creon and fiance of Antigone tries to convince his father to spare her, fails, and commits suicide in front of his father in protest?
HAEMON
B2: In Sophocles’s Antigone, after Teiresias tells Creon that the gods are not accepting sacrifices because of the death of Antigone, what group reminds Creon that Teiresias has never been wrong and he needs to heed the warning?
CHORUS / THEBAN ELDERS [ACCEPT EQUIVALENTS]
A barber revealed the secret of what king, who had disagreed with Tmolus in judging Apollo’s musicianship and was cursed even after he had just washed away his golden touch?
MIDAS
B1: In what river did Midas wash away his golden touch?
PACTOLUS
B2: Tmolus was sometimes portrayed not as a mountain-god, but as a human married to what daughter of Iardanes?
OMPHALE
What island had a king who tried to take one of Heracles’s bulls in a boxing match and a later king named Acestes, who hosted Aeneas for the funeral games of Anchises?
SICILY
B1: Like Heracles, that king — Eryx — could also claim divine descent, as what deity was his mother?
APHRODITE
B2: During the funeral games of Anchises, what figure was said to have learned boxing from Eryx, a skill that helped him win against his Trojan opponent?
ENTELLUS
An attempt to rape the Hyperborean maiden Opis, an ill-fated game of quoits with Artemis, or a boast that he would kill all animals are all stories that explain the demise of what giant hunter?
ORION
B1: Orion’s most known myth is being blinded by what king of Chios, whose daughter Merope he had attempted to rape?
OENOPION
B2: Who was Orion’s first wife, sent down to Hades for claiming to be more beautiful than Hera?
SIDE
Who claimed to be a Cretan son of Deucalion named Aethon while disguised as a beggar, during which time he boxed Irus, faced Antinous’s mockery, and revealed himself to Eumaeus?
ODYSSEUS
B1: Another of Odysseus’s lies involved him being a Cretan wanderer who settled in Egypt, which may be connected to the historical Battle of the Delta between Ramses III and the mysterious Sea Peoples. Similarly, what people, led by Tarchon and Mezentius in the Aeneid, may be connected with a subgroup of the Sea Peoples called the Teresh?
TYRRHENIANS / ETRUSCANS / TYRSENIANS
B2: What mythological group’s legend may reflect historical evidence of a Dorian invasion of the Peloponnesus, which some have also connected with the Sea Peoples?
HERACLIDS // DESCENDANTS OF HERACLES
Triple-faced statues depicted what goddess, who was also known as Brimo, was accompanied by hellhounds, represented crossroads, and was the patron of sorceresses like Medea?
HECATE [PROMPT BEFORE BRIMO ON “ARTEMIS” OR “SELENE”]
B1: Hecate was also worshiped as the goddess of what object, alongside two other female deities?
MOON
B2: Under what name did the people of Thalamae worship the moon goddess? This name is more commonly associated with a sister of Circe.
PASIPHAE
