Exam 3 Flashcards
Not morally superior, an ordinary human that lives an extraordinary life.
Hero
Every human follows a path that is pre-determined
Fate
God that gave people hope
Prometheus
King of Lydia, richest person in the world, invented money.
Croesus
A world traveler. Didn’t think that Croesus was not the happiest person in the world. “Call no man happy, until they are dead.
Solon
His son’s fate was to die by a man-made weapon
Croesus
Killed Croesus’s son. Who and how?
Adrastus, boar charged Croesus’s son and Adrastus tried to protect him but killed him instead.
Means glory of Hera
Heracles
Heracles’s mother.
Alcmena
Sent the goddess of childbirth to clutch her knees in front of Alcmena’s house to try to prevent her from giving birth to Heracles
Hera
Heracle’s first task when he was 16
Slay a lion
Hera drove him crazy which led him to kill his own children
Heracles
How did Heracles skin the Lion of Nemeo
with its own claw
A dragon thats when its head was cut off he grew two more.
Hydra
What did Hera send to harass Heracles while fighting the Hydra, what happened when he killed it?
a giant crab, it became the constalation Cancer
Had 30,000 cattle, made Heracles clean the stable
King of Augeus
location of the Golden Apples
Hesperides
Heracles ran into this God on his way to Hesperides and tricked him back into doing the task the God assigned to him.
Atlas
Watch dog of the world of the dead.
Cerberus
Heracles’s second wife
Deianira
a Centaur that tried to rape Deianira
Nessus
convinced Deianira to take some of his blood because it was a love potion
Nessus
When Heracles was coming back from an adventure he tried to bring back a …. which made Deianira jealous.
Concubine
Put poision blood on Heracles’s robe thinking it was a love potion.
Deianira
King of Ioclus
Pelias
Pelias’s nephew
Jason
Who actually raised Jason
Chiron
Who is the only hero that Hera helps
Jason
Who is the old woman that Jason helps across a stream?
Hera
Warned about a man with one shoe. Who was warned and who was the man?
Pelias was awarned and the man was Jason
What did Pelias ask Jason to get in order for him to have the thrown?
The Golden Fleece
A big ship for 50 men
Argo
Name of Jason’s men on the Argo
Argonauts
Who was distracted by Nymphs when the Argonauts stopped for water
Hylas and Heracles
Blind man that Jason helped on his way. Could see the future.
Phineus
What was Phineus harassed by?
Harpies
Where did Phineus advise that Jason should let a dove pass through before the Argo went through?
The Clashing Rocks
Where were Jason and the Argonauts going?
Colchis
What did jason have to do with fire breathing bulls?
put a plow on it
King of Colchis’s daughter
Medea
Who made Medea fall in love with Jason?
Aphrodite
Who showed Jason where the Golden Fleece was
Medea
What family member of Medea’s did Jason and the Argonauts take
her brother
Giant that Jason ran into in Crete on his journey back
Talos
substance flowing through Talos
Ichor
who brought Jason’s dad back to life?
Medea
Who killed Pelias’s dad and how?
Pelias, Medea tricked him by giving him wrong ingredients
Who lifted Jason’s guilt for killing his own blood?
a king in Corinth
Who killed the king of Corinth’s daughter
Medea
Who was suppposed to marry the King of Corinths daughter and become king?
Jason
Play that Jason and Medea’s relationship is about?
Euripedes
King of Athens
Aegeus
Slept with the king of a different kingdoms daughter and got her pregnant
Aegeus
Aegeus’s son
Theseus
Had to lift a rock outside of his city and get a sword before he could go back to Athens
Theseus
Theseus tied this pine bender to a tree and killed him
Sinis
Invited people into his house to stay in his bed but people had to fit in bed exactly. Theseus cut him.
Procrustes
Theseus’s wife
Medea
Who tried to poison Theseus
Medea
Where did a ship with black sails come from
Crete
Who was the king of Crete
Minos
Wanted to sacrifice a perfect bull to Posideon but instead sacrificed not a great one
Minos
Who made Minos’s wife fall in love with a bull?
Posideon
Minos’s wife
Pasiphae
made a hollow cow so Minos’s wife could mate with the bull.
Daedalus
Offspring of Pasiphae and the bull
Minotaur
Who made the Labyrinth
Daedalus
Tried to fly away with wings made of feathers and bee wax
Daedalus
Daedalus’s son that fell becasue flew to close to the sun
Icarus
Volunteered to replace one of the 7 boys to kill the minotaur
Theseus
Gave Theseus a navigational aid
Ariadne
Minos’s daughter
Ariadne
Who did Theseus accidentally leave on an island on his way back Athens?
Ariadne
What else did Theseus forget to change on his way back to Athens?
To change the sails to white
Sea named after Aegeus
Aegean Sea
Perseus’s Grandfather who trapped his daughter in a cell because Oracle said his grandson would kill him
Acrisius
Acrisius’s daughter/ Perseus’s mom
Danae
Who dripped through Danae’s cell
Zeus
Who did Acrisius ship off
Danae and Perseus
What did a king ask for Perseus to get
a Gorgon’s head
Gorgon that Perseus killed
Madusa
Who came to help Perseus
Hermes gave him a sword and Athenahelped
Gorgon’s sisters had one eye and one tooth
Graeae
3 instruments that Perseus used to fight gorgon
- cap of invisibility
- winged sandals
- bag to hold her head
Who held her shield so Perseus could look at Madusa
Athena
what was the offspring of Madusa and Posideon
Pegasus
Perseus’s wife. Found her on his way back chained to a cliff by her own father.
Andromeda
Rude to Perseus so he turned this god to stone.
Atlas
Who has the head of Madusa in the middle of their breast plate?
Athena
Who died from Perseus throwing a discuss at them?
Acrisius
King of Thebes. Cursed by another king for raping their daughter. Killed by his own son as told by a prophecy.
Laius
Laius’s wife. Married her own son after Laius died.
Jocasta
Son of Laius and Jocasta. Thought he was adopted. destined to kill his dad and marry his mom. Was left in exposure as a child after having his feet stabbed.
Oedipus
Where did Oedipus think he was from?
Corinth
A riddler that Oedipus killed.
The sphinx
Oedipus’s daughter that hlped him through exile
Antigone
Oedipus’s two sons that switched off being king every year. Caused a civil war and both died.
Eteocles and Polynices
The final family member to be kin god Oedipus. Had Antigone trapped in a cave. His son fell on his own sword.
Creon
