LCT27: Myths of Mycenae (Act1)

Question 1

Who is Tantalus?

Answer 1

son of Zeus’ - frequently a dinner guest of the gods

Question 2

What does Tantalus do?

Answer 2

decides to try to test the gods omniscience… invites the gods to dinner

Question 3

What do they have for dinner?

Answer 3

Tantalus chops his son Pelops into the gods food

Question 4

Only who is fooled by Tantalus trick? Why? What part of Pelops did she eat?

Answer 4

Demeter - grieving for Persephone - the arm

Question 5

What do the gods do?

Answer 5

put Pelops back together and make an ivory arm for him since Demeter eat one of his arms

Question 6

What his Tantalus punishment?

Answer 6

eternal condemnation to the Underworld

Question 7

How does Tantalus live?

Answer 7

• food and water always just out of reach

- can’t satisfy hunger and thirst

Question 8

What does the oracle tell Denomaus?

Answer 8

to beware of death at hands of son-in-law

Question 9

How can suitors win Hippodamid? What happens if you lose?

Answer 9

must win a chariot race - put to death if you lose

Question 10

Why will Oenomdus never lose?

Answer 10

bc his horses are just too fast

Question 11

Who does Pelops find to help him? What does he do?

Answer 11

finds Myrtilus to help him - Pelops offers half the kingdom if he installs wax wheel-pins on Oenomdus chariot

Question 12

What happenes after the race?

Answer 12

Pelops throws Myrtilus into the sea and as falling Myrtilus cures Pelops before he dies

Question 13

Peloponhesus

Answer 13

“island of Pelops