Medea For Jolly Flashcards
What Colchian sorceress…?
Medea
Who were the parents of Medea?
Aeetes and Eidyia (sometimes Hecate)
Who was the youngest of the Oceanids?
Eidyia
Who was Medea a priestess of?
Hecate
What sister of Aeetes was related to Medea for her magical powers?
Circe
What goddess caused Medea’s journey to Greece?
Hera
What goddesses caused Medea to fall in love with Jason?
Hera and Aphrodite
Who lulled the dragon guardian of the Golden Fleece to sleep?
Medea
Out of love for Jason, what brother of Medea did she and Jason kill?
Apsyrtus
Why did Medea throw the pieces of her brother into the sea?
So that the members of the Argo would have to gather the prices for a proper burial and delay chasing her and Jason
Who purified Jason and Medea for the murder of Apsyrtus?
Circe
What bronze giant did Medea?
Talus
Where did Medea and Jason get married?
Pheacians island of Drepane
What island was Talus guarding?
Crete
Slitting his throat, draining his blood, and filling his veins with her concoction was the action of Medea on what man?
Aeson
Why did Medea put her concoction in Aeson’s veins?
To restore his youth
Asking to have years taken off his life and given to his father…?
Jason
In the appearance of a old women, who hobbled to the gates of Iolcus claiming to be a priestess?
Medea
Of what god did Medea make a bronze statue of?
Artemis
Who did Medea claim to be a priestess at Iolcus’s city gates?
Hyperboean Artemis
What animal did Medea put into the cauldron as a demonstration for her concoction?
A ram (she somehow pulled out a lamb though so that makes no sense)
What pious daughter of Pelias was reluctant to agree to Medea’s methods even after the demonstration?
Alcestis
What son of Pelias took the throne of Iolcus after the former and kicked out Jason and Medea?
Acastus
Where did Jason and Medea come to rule after the got kicked from Iolcus?
Corinth
Who left the throne of Corinth to Bunus?
Aeetes
What emigrant from Colchis…?
Bunus(maybe a 1 in 1)
Who was the successor to Bunus as king of Corinth who died childless?
Corinthus
In the usual story, what king of Corinth is said to have let Jason and Medea into Corinth to live for 10 years?
Creon
What two sons did Medea and Jason have? (Some accounts say they have three sons which are in parentheses)
Mermercus and Pheres (Thessalus, Alcimenes, and Tisandrus)
What daughter of Creon did Jason divorce Medea to marry?
Glauce or Creusa
What does Pausanias say was Jason’s reasoning for leaving Corinth?
Medea’s habits of hiding their children at birth in Hera’s shrine in the vain hope of making them immortal
Sending a poisoned robe to Glauce..?
Medea
Though she jumped into a well to quench the fire, what wife of Jason died in agony?
Glauce
What was the fate of Creon, Glauce’s father?
Dying in the same fire as Glauce
What gift from Helios saved Medea from the angry Corinthians?
A chariot drawn by winged dragons
What was helios’s relationship to Medea?
Grandfather
Being stoned to death on Hera’s altar…?
Mermerus and Pheres
Who did Medea cure of madness at Thebes?
Heracles
What king did Medea as for protection if she came to Athens?
Aegeus
Why did Aegeus give Medea protection?
She promised to use her arts to give the aging king the children he had been denied
Who was son of Aegeus and Medea?
Medus
What task did Aegeus send Theseus to do first?
Capture the Marathonian Bull
What son of Minos already died from the Marathonian bull?
Androgeus
Poisoning a cup with aconite, was the action of Medea to kill what man?
Theseus
Why did Medea want Theseus killed?
She wanted her son Medus to rule next
What brother of Aeetes killed him?
Perses
What city was overrun by snakes and was where Apsyrtus was buried?
Absoros
Who did Medus pretend to be when he went to Colchis?
Hippotes, son of Creon
Who ended up killing Perses?
Medus
How did the oracle say Perses would die?
A descendant of Aeetes would kill him
Where was Medea said to be a consort of Achilles?
Elysian Fields
