Seven Against Thebes Flashcards
What son of Talaus…
Adrastus
What two people did Adrastus find on the porch of his palace?
Polyneices and Tydeus
What sons of oedipus…
Eteocles and Polyneices
What son of Oeneus, one of the…
Tydeus
What was on Polyneices’s shield?
a lion
What was on Tydeus’s shield?
a boar
What daughters of Adrastus…
Argeia and Deipyle
What had an oracle told Adrastus about his daughters?
That he should yoke them to a lion and a boar
Who was told by an oracle that he should yoke his daughters to a lion and a boar?
Adrastus
Who did Tydeus marry?
Deipyle
Who did Polyneices marry?
Argeia
Who was awakened one night by two men arguing on his porch?
Adrastus
Who went to Argos in search of assistance in recovering their kingdoms?
Polyneices and Tydeus
What calydonian warrior, one of the s…
Tydeus
What son of Oeneus and Periboea…
Tydeus
Who banished Tydeus from Calydon?
Agrius
What uncle of Tydeus…
Agrius
Why was Tydeus banished from Calyon?
For killing an uncle
Who was the husband of Deipyle?
Tydeus
Who wounded Tydeus?
Melanippus
Who killed Melannipus?
Tydeus
Which of the seven against Thebes, the favorite of Athena…
Tydeus
Who ate the brains…
Tydeus
Who would have been made immortal had he not eaten…
Tydeus
What son of Tydeus…
Diomedes
What son of Deipyle…
Diomedes
Who were the parents of Diomedes?
Tydeus and Deipyle
Who was ambushed by fifty men and killed them all except for one?
Tydeus
Which of the fifty men did Tydeus leave alive?
Maeon
Whose brains…
Melanippus
Who cursed Eteocles and Polyneices?
Oedipus
Who bribed Eriphyle?
Polyneices
What did Polyneices use to bribe Eriphyle?
the necklace of Harmonia
Whose wife did Polyneices bribe?
Amphiarius’s
Who killed Polyneices?
Eteocles
Who decreed that Polyneices’s body should remain unburied?
Creon
Who buried Polyenices?
Antigone
Who was the son of Polneices?
Thersander
Who disobeyed Creon…
Antigone
Who, using harmonia’s necklace…
Polyneices
Who was the leader of the seven against Thebes?
Adrastus
What son of Talaus and Lysimache…
Adrastus
Who were the sons of Adrastus?
Aegialeus and Cyanippus
Who was the father of Aegialeus?
Adrastus
Who did Adrastus quarrel with which caused him to go to Sicyon?
Amphiaraus
Who founded the Sicyonian games?
Adrastus
Who instituted the Neamean games?
Adrastus
Who was the horse of Adrastus?
Arion
Who saved Adrastus from dying?
Arion
What swift horse…
Arion
Who, the only to survive the attack on…
Adrastus
Where did Adrastus die?
Megara
Who did Adrastus promise to help first?
Polyneices
Who prophesized that the only to survive would be Adrastus?
Amphiarius
Who was the father of Eteoclus?
Iphis
What son of Iphis…
Eteoclus
Who told Polyneices that he should bribe Eriphyle?
Iphis
What did Iphis advise Polyneices?
to bribe Eriphyle
What did Eriphyle demand of Amphiarius?
that he must march against thebes
Who were the sons of Amphiarius?
Alcmaeon and Amphilocus
What did Amphiarius make his sons promise?
to avenge his death on their mother
Where did the seven against thebes stop for water?
Nemea
What son of Lycurgus…
Opheltes
Who was the father of Opheltes?
Lycurgus
Who was king of nemea when the seven against thebes were there?
Lycurgus
What nurse of Opheltes…
Hypsipyle
What woman, the former queen of Lemnos…
Hypsipyle
Who laying in a bed of parsley…
Opheltes
Who laid Opheltes down in a bed of parsley?
Hypsipyle
Where did Hypsipyle lay Opheltes down?
in a bed of parsley
Who showed the seven against thebes to a spring?
Hypsipyle
How did Opheltes die?
a snake killed him
What name was Opheltes named under?
Archemorous
What does Archemorous mean?
beginner of doom
Who won the chariot race at the first neamen games?
Adrastus
After what games were people crowned with parsley?
nemean games
What did Amphiarius say Opheltes’s death foreshadowed?
their own fate
Which of the seven against thebes was sent ahead…
Tydeus
Why was Tydeus sent ahead?
to demand Eteocles surrender
Who led the fifty men sent to ambush Tydeus?
maeon and polyphontes
What did Teiresias proclaim about the seven against thebes?
that the city would be saved if Menoceus were to sacrifice himself
Who willingly sacrificed himself to save Thebes?
menoeceus
What son of Creon was prophesized…
Menoeceus
Who declared that Menoeceus would have to sacrifice himself?
Teiresias
What boastful man scaled the walls of Thebes…
capaneus
Who shouted from the walls of Thebes that Zeus himself could not stop him from burning the city?
Capaneus
How did Capaneus die?
Zeus struck him with lightning
Whose skull was crushed by a stone?
Parthenopaeus
Who cut off Melanippus’s head?
Amphiaraus
Who handed the head of Melanippus to Tydeus?
Amphiaraus
Who pursued Amphiaraus?
Periclymenus
Who was the charioteer of Amphiaraus?
Baton
Who almost killed Amphiaraus with his spear?
Periclymenus
How did Amphiaraus die?
Zeus split the earth with a thunderbolt and he was swallowed up
Who ruled after Eteocles?
Creon
Who sent an army to Thebes demanding the bodies back?
Theseus
Where were the dead champions from the seven against thebes buried?
Eleusis
Who was Capaneus’s wife?
Evadne
Who burned herself on her husband’s funeral pyre?
Evadne
Whose wife burned herself on top of his funeral pyre?
Capaneus’s
Who buried Tydeus at thebes?
Maeon
What son of Hipponous and Astynome…
Capaneus
What son of Capaneus and Evadne…
Sthenelus
Who was the son of Capaneus?
Sthenelus
What son of Hippomedon…
Polydorus
What son of Hippomedon and Evanippe…
Polydorus
Who killed Hippomedon?
Ismarus
Who were the seven against thebes?
Adrastus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polyneices & Tydeus
Where were the common soldiers from the seven against thebes expedition buried?
Eleutherae
Adrastus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polyneices & Tydeus
Seven against thebes
What son of Atalanta…
Parthenopaeus
Who was the bestie of Parthenopaeus?
Telephus
Who was the bestie of Telephus?
Parthenopaeus
Who was the son of Parthenopaeus?
Promachus
Who killed Parthenopaeus?
Periclymenus
Where did Parthenopaeus accompany Telephus?
Teuthrania
What man, the descendent of Melampus?
Amphiaraus
What son of Oicles and Hypermnestra…
Amphiaraus
Who married Adrastus’s sister Eriphyle?
Amphiaraus
Which of the seven against thebes, the seer….
Amphiaraus
What woman, betrothed to Haemon…
Antigone
Who acted as Oedipus’s guide until he died at Colonus?
Antigone
When Creon kidnapped Antigone, who saved her?
Theseus
How did Antigone die?
buried and killed herself
How did Haemon die?
he killed himself after finding Antigone’s body
Who killed Eteoclus?
Leades
