Pre-State Questions—Advanced Flashcards
Who yoked a horse and an ox to his plow, wore the cap of a madman, and sowed salt in his field in an attempt to avoid being conscripted into the Trojan War?
ODYSSEUS
B1: What two creatures was the Argive king Adrastus told to yoke his daughters to?
BOAR AND LION
B2: Who had to harness a lion and a boar to his chariot, which he did with the help of Apollo, in order to be able to marry Alcestis?
ADMETUS
What name, meaning “the glory of her father” in Greek, is shared in myth by the daughter of Idas and Marpessa, who married the man who killed the Calydonian Boar, the daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, who was married to Phineus, and in history by the last
queen of the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt?
CLEOPATRA
B1: Cleopatra and Meleager had a daughter, Polydora, who in some stories married what king of Phylace, who was the first to die at Troy?
PROTESILAUS
B2: Who, the daughter of Acastus, is generally said to be the wife of Protesilaus, and grieved so much that Protesilaus was allowed to return for one day to comfort her?
LAODAMEIA
What body part protected both the kingdoms of Pterelaus and Nisus until they were cut by their respective daughters?
HAIR/LOCK OF HAIR
B1: What king of Crete had Nisus’ daughter Scylla fallen in love with, prompting her to cut her father’s purple hair?
MINOS
B2: Who had Pterelaus’ daughter Comaetho fallen in love with, as he raided the Taphians on behalf of his father-in-law Electryon?
AMPHITRYON
What was the prophecy that prompted Latinus to switch his daughter’s fiance from Turnus to Aeneas when the Trojan turned up in Latium?
HIS DAUGHTER SHOULD MARRY A FOREIGNER
B1: Which goddess who served as the psychopomp for Dido in Book 4, incites Turnus to attack the Trojan ships in Book 9?
IRIS
B2: Turnus believed he should marry Lavinia, and pointed out that he was descended from what foreign woman, the daughter of Acrisius?
DANAE
What queen of Lydia bought Hercules and made him spin for three years in order that Hercules might be purified of murder?
OMPHALE
B1 What son of Eurytus had Hercules murdered, prompting him to sell himself into slavery?
IPHITUS
B2 What collective name was given to Passalus and Acmon, who were captured by Hercules while he worked for Omphale, and were later turned into monkeys by Jupiter?
CERCOPES
What name meaning “Shining One” is held in common by these characters from mythology: a son of Eos who was carried away by Aphrodite and was an ancestor of Adonis, an epithet for Apsyrtus because he outshone all other Colchian youths, and the son of Helios and Clymene who lost control of his father’s chariot?
PHAETHON
B1: Who with a similar sounding name, was a handsome youth created by Prometheus and then carried off by Zeus?
PHAENON
B2: Both Phaethon and Phaenon became planets, which are coincidentally next to each other in the Solar System. What two planets did they become?
JUPITER and SATURN
What king of Latium welcomed Aeneas and his followers to Italy?
LATINUS
B1 What god was Latinus’ father, according to Vergil?
FAUNUS
B2 What daughter of Helios transformed Faunus’ father, Picus, into a woodpecker?
CIRCE
Who traded his kingdom of Argos with his cousin Megapenthes’ city of Tiryns, because he didn’t want to inherit the kingdom of the man he had murdered?
PERSEUS
B1: What name is given to the only daughter of Perseus and Andromeda as homage to his quest?
GORGOPHONE
B2: By Oebalus, Gorgophone became the mother of what man, the father of Penelope?
ICARIUS
What name is shared by the man who first brought wine to the Athenians and father in law of Odysseus?
ICARIUS
B1 Who was the daughter of the Athenian Icarius, who killed herself after she discovered her father’s grave?
ERIGONE
B2 What was the name of Icarius’ and Erigone’s dog, which also killed itself?
MAERA
Who were cursed by their father to kill each other in part because they had done nothing to oppose their father, Oedipus’, exile from Thebes?
ETEOCLES and POLYNEICES
B1 Who protected Oedipus from being kidnapped by Eteocles and Creon, as well as later forcing the Thebans to bury the Seven Against Thebes?
THESEUS
B2 What name was shared by Creon’s two sons, one of whom was killed by the Sphinx, the other of whom killed himself after the death of his fiancée, Antigone?
HAEMON
What god was the father of Phanus, Thoas, and Oenopion
DIONYSUS
B1 Who was the mother of these three?
ARIADNE
B2 According to some versions, what mortal is the father of Oenopion and his brother, Staphylus?
THESEUS
What “Old Man of the Sea” and husband of Doris told Heracles where to find the Apples of the Hesperides?
NEREUS
B1: What personification of the sea was Nereus’ father?
PONTUS
B2: What sea deities were the parents of Doris?
OCEANUS and TETHYS
Who were cursed by their father to kill each other, which they did, and, according to Euripides’ Phoenician Women caused their mother, Jocasta, to kill herself?
ETEOCLES and POLYNEICES
B1: What daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta killed herself when she was imprisoned by her uncle, Creon?
ANTIGONE
B2: What son of Creon, betrothed to Antigone, tried to kill his father and then killed himself when Antigone’s body was discovered?
HAEMON
In order to get Clytemnestra to allow Iphigeneia to go to Aulis, Odysseus claimed she would be marrying which of the Greek leaders?
ACHILLES
B1 The Greeks were not able to immediately sail to Troy, even after Iphigeneia was sacrificed. What king of Mysia, the son of Heracles, did they attack first, mistaking the kingdom for Troy?
TELEPHUS
B2 Telephus was wounded in this attack, how was he healed?
ACHILLES made him a potion of RUST from his (Achilles’) SPEAR
Who was the only one of Pelias’ daughters who did not cut up their father in an attempt to make him young again? She is more famous as being the wife of Admetus.
ALCESTIS
B1 Name one of the two animals Admetus yoked to a chariot to win Alcestis’ hand.
BOAR or LION
B2 Name the other
BOAR or LION
