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Medea Flashcards

1
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What Colchian sorceress…?

A

Medea

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2
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Who were the parents of Medea?

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Aeetes and Eidyia (sometimes Hecate)

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3
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Who was the youngest of the Oceanids?

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Eidyia

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4
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Who was Medea a priestess of?

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Hecate

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5
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What sister of Aeetes was related to Medea for her magical powers?

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Circe

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6
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What goddess caused Medea’s journey to Greece?

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Hera

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7
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What goddesses caused Medea to fall in love with Jason?

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Hera and Aphrodite

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8
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Who lulled the dragon guardian of the Golden Fleece to sleep?

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Medea

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9
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Out of love for Jason, what brother of Medea did she and Jason kill?

A

Apsyrtus

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10
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Why did Medea throw the pieces of her brother into the sea?

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So that the members of the Argo would have to gather the prices for a proper burial and delay chasing her and Jason

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11
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Who purified Jason and Medea for the murder of Apsyrtus?

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Circe

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12
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Who is said to have destroyed Talus with sor…

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Medea

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13
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Where did Medea and Jason get married?

A

Pheacians island of Drepane

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14
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What island was Talus guarding?

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Crete

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15
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Slitting his throat, draining his blood, and filling his veins with her concoction was the action of Medea on what man?

A

Aeson

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16
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Why did Medea put her concoction in Aeson’s veins?

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To restore his youth

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17
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Asking to have years taken off his life and given to his father…?

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Jason

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18
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In the appearance of a old women, who hobbled to the gates of Iolcus claiming to be a priestess?

A

Medea

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19
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Of what god did Medea make a bronze statue of?

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Artemis

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20
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Who did Medea claim to be a priestess at Iolcus’s city gates?

A

Hyperboean Artemis

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21
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What animal did Medea put into the cauldron as a demonstration for her concoction?

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A ram (she somehow pulled out a lamb though so that makes no sense LOL)

22
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What pious daughter of Pelias was reluctant to agree to Medea’s methods even after the demonstration?

A

Alcestis

23
Q

What son of Pelias took the throne of Iolcus after the former and kicked out Jason and Medea?

A

Acastus

24
Q

Where did Jason and Medea come to rule after the got kicked from Iolcus?

A

Corinth

25
Q

Who left the throne of Corinth to Bunus?

A

Aeetes

26
Q

What emigrant from Colchis…?

A

Bunus(maybe a 1 in 1)

27
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Who was the successor to Bunus as king of Corinth who died childless?

A

Corinthus

28
Q

In the usual story, what king of Corinth is said to have let Jason and Medea into Corinth to live for 10 years?

A

Creon

29
Q

What two sons did Medea and Jason have? (Some accounts say they have three sons which are in parentheses)

A

Mermercus and Pheres (Thessalus, Alcimenes, and Tisandrus)

30
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What daughter of Creon did Jason divorce Medea to marry?

A

Glauce

31
Q

What does Pausanias say was Jason’s reasoning for leaving Corinth?

A

Medea’s habits of hiding their children at birth in Hera’s shrine in the vain hope of making them immortal

32
Q

Sending a poisoned robe to Glauce..?

A

Medea

33
Q

Though she jumped into a well to quench the fire, what wife of Jason died in agony?

A

Glauce

34
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What was the fate of Creon, Glauce’s father?

A

Dying in the same fire as Glauce

35
Q

What gift from Helios saved Medea from the angry Corinthians?

A

A chariot drawn by winged dragons

36
Q

What was helios’s relationship to Medea?

A

Grandfather

37
Q

Being stoned to death on Hera’s altar…?

A

Mermerus and Pheres

38
Q

Who did Medea cure of madness at Thebes?

A

Heracles

39
Q

What king did Medea as for protection if she came to Athens?

A

Aegeus

40
Q

Why did Aegeus give Medea protection?

A

She promised to use her arts to give the aging king the children he had been denied

41
Q

Who was son of Aegeus and Medea?

A

Medus

42
Q

What task did Aegeus send Theseus to do first?

A

Capture the Marathonian Bull

43
Q

What son of Minos already died from the Marathonian bull?

A

Androgeus

44
Q

Poisoning a cup with aconite, was the action of Medea to kill what man?

A

Theseus

45
Q

Why did Medea want Theseus killed?

A

She wanted her son Medus to rule next

46
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What brother of Aeetes killed him?

A

Perses

47
Q

What city was overrun by snakes and was where Apsyrtus was buried?

A

Absoros

48
Q

Who did Medus pretend to be when he went to Colchis?

A

Hippotes, son of Creon

49
Q

Who ended up killing Perses?

A

Medus

50
Q

How did the oracle say Perses would die?

A

A descendant of Aeetes would kill him

51
Q

Where was Medea said to be a consort of Achilles?

A

Elysian Fields

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