Lecture 21/22/23

Question 1

Adrastus

Answer 1

King of Argos, one of the 7 against Thebes, saved by Arion

Question 2

Amphiaraüs

Answer 2

One of the 7 against Thebes, had the gift of prophecy, opposed the attack on Thebes but Polyneices bribed his wife with the necklace of Harmonia, swallowed up by the earth, became a chthonic cult hero

Question 3

Amphion

Answer 3

Son of Antiope, brother to Zethus, ruler of Cadmeia, built the walls of Thebes with his lyre, husband to Niobe

Question 4

Antigone

Answer 4

Daughter of Oedipus and title of the third play in Sophocles’ Theban trilogy

Question 5

Antiope

Answer 5

Beloved of Zeus, mother to Amphion and Zethus

Question 6

Boeotia

Answer 6

Region where Cadmus founded Cadmeia

Question 7

Colonus

Answer 7

Village near Athens that Oedipus comes to after years of wandering

Question 8

Creon

Answer 8

Brother of Jocasta, regent ruler of Thebes

Question 9

Epigoni

Answer 9

The sons of the 7 against Thebes, successfully attacked the city 10 years later, name means ‘later generation’

Question 10

Eteocles

Answer 10

Son of Oedipus and brother to Polyneices

Question 11

Eumenides

Answer 11

‘Kindly ones’, alternate name for the Furies (Erinyes), title of a play by Aeschylus

Question 12

Europa

Answer 12

Phoenician princess, abducted by Zeus and taken to Crete, mother of Minos

Question 13

Haemon

Answer 13

Son of Creon, betrothed to Antigone, killed himself after finding her dead

Question 14

Harmonia

Answer 14

Daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, wife of Cadmus

Question 15

Ismene

Answer 15

Daughter of Oedipus

Question 16

Jocasta

Answer 16

Wife of Laius, mother of Oedipus, wife of Oedipus

Question 17

Laius

Answer 17

Great-grandson of Cadmus, exiled as an infant, abducted and raped Chrysippus (Pelops’ son) while under his roof, returned and became King of Thebes, married Jocasta, father of Oedipus

Question 18

Labdacus

Answer 18

Grandson of Cadmus, father of Laius

Question 19

Polybus

Answer 19

King of Corinth, husband to Merope, ‘father’ to Oedipus

Question 20

Spartoi

Answer 20

‘Sown men’, survivors of the armed men who sprang from the earth, founders of Theban nobility

Question 21

Sphinx

Answer 21

‘Strangler’, monster sent by Hera to plague Thebes, face of a woman, body of a lion and wings of a bird, defeated by Oedipus

Question 22

Thebe

Answer 22

Zethus’ wife, for whom Cadmeia was renamed Thebes

Question 23

Tydeus

Answer 23

One of the 7 against Thebes, Athena’s favourite, died in battle