Lecture 24

Question 1

Aegisthus

Answer 1

Son of Thyestes and Pelopia, committed adultery with Clytemnestra and helped her kill Agamemnon

Question 2

Aërope

Answer 2

Atreus’ wife, seduced by Thyestes, mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus

Question 3

Oresteia

Answer 3

Trilogy of plays about the Mycenaean saga by Aeschylus, consisting of Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eumenides

Question 4

Aeropagus

Answer 4

Athenian homicide court

Question 5

Atreids

Answer 5

Descendants of Atreus

Question 6

Aulis

Answer 6

Port on the coast of Boeotia from which the Greeks sailed against Troy

Question 7

Electra

Answer 7

Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sister to Orestes

Question 8

Hippodamia

Answer 8

Daughter of Oenomaus, wife of Pelops, mother of Atreus and Thyestes

Question 9

Iphigenia

Answer 9

Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sacrificed at the beginning of the Trojan war to gain favourable winds

Question 10

Menelaüs

Answer 10

Son of Atreus and Aerope, King of Sparta and husband of Helen

Question 11

Miasma

Answer 11

‘Blood pollution’, god sent disease that is caused by a murder that had not been atoned for

Question 12

Myrtilus

Answer 12

Son of Hermes, charioteer of Oenomaus, bribed by Pelops, killed by Pelops, cursed Pelops

Question 13

Oenomaüs

Answer 13

King of Pisa, father of Hippodamia, killed in a chariot crash

Question 14

Orestes

Answer 14

Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, he murdered his mother and was acquitted by the Areopagus

Question 15

Pelopia

Answer 15

Daughter of Thyestes and Aerope, seduced by Thyestes, mother of Aegisthus

Question 16

Pelopion

Answer 16

Shrine to Pelops next to the temple of Zeus at Olympia

Question 17

Peloponnese

Answer 17

Southern part of the Greek mainland, Pelops’ Island

Question 18

Pelops

Answer 18

Son of Tantalus, King of Elis, won Hippodamia in a chariot race, father of Chrysippus