LCT24: Myths of Thebes II

Question 1

Who does Zeus get pregnant?

Answer 1

Antiope

Question 2

What happens once Antiope is pregnant?

Answer 2

flees from angry father Nycteus who eventually kills himself but asks his brother Lycus to find and punish Antiope before death

Question 3

Who take Antiope prisoner?

Answer 3

Lycus and his wife Dirce

Question 4

What happened to the babies of Antiope and Zeus? Who are the babies?

Answer 4

abandoned, but rescued by a shepherd

• Zethus: hedsman
• Amphion: lyre player

Question 5

What eventually happens between the babies and Antiope?

Answer 5

Antiope escapes torture/captive and meets her grown sons - identities discovered

Question 6

What happens to Lycus and Dirce?

Answer 6

Amphion and Zethus kill them - Dirce is tied to an angry bull

Question 7

Who does Amphion marry?

Answer 7

Niobe (Zeus and Thebe’s daughter)

Question 8

What do Amphion and Zethus do?

Answer 8

build new walls for Cadmeia and rename it Thebes - also expel Laius

Question 9

After Amphion and Zethus die, what happens?

Answer 9

Laius returns from exile to rule, marries Jocasta

Question 10

What does Oracle @ Delphi tell Laius? How does he respond?

Answer 10

not to have a son bc it will kill him if he does - Laius and Jocasta take their chances - have a baby which is a son