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Seven Against Thebes Flashcards

1
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What son of Talaus…

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Adrastus

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What two people did Adrastus find on the porch of his palace?

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Polyneices and Tydeus

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What sons of oedipus…

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Eteocles and Polyneices

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What son of Oeneus, one of the…

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Tydeus

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5
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What was on Polyneices’s shield?

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a lion

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What was on Tydeus’s shield?

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a boar

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7
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What daughters of Adrastus…

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Argeia and Deipyle

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What had an oracle told Adrastus about his daughters?

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That he should yoke them to a lion and a boar

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9
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Who was told by an oracle that he should yoke his daughters to a lion and a boar?

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Adrastus

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10
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Who did Tydeus marry?

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Deipyle

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11
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Who did Polyneices marry?

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Argeia

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12
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Who was awakened one night by two men arguing on his porch?

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Adrastus

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13
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Who went to Argos in search of assistance in recovering their kingdoms?

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Polyneices and Tydeus

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14
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What calydonian warrior, one of the s…

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Tydeus

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15
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What son of Oeneus and Periboea…

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Tydeus

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16
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Who banished Tydeus from Calydon?

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Agrius

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17
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What uncle of Tydeus…

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Agrius

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18
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Why was Tydeus banished from Calyon?

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For killing an uncle

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19
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Who was the husband of Deipyle?

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Tydeus

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20
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Who wounded Tydeus?

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Melanippus

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21
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Who killed Melannipus?

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Tydeus

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22
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Which of the seven against Thebes, the favorite of Athena…

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Tydeus

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23
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Who ate the brains…

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Tydeus

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24
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Who would have been made immortal had he not eaten…

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Tydeus

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25
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What son of Tydeus…

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Diomedes

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26
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What son of Deipyle…

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Diomedes

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27
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Who were the parents of Diomedes?

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Tydeus and Deipyle

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28
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Who was ambushed by fifty men and killed them all except for one?

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Tydeus

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29
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Which of the fifty men did Tydeus leave alive?

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Maeon

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30
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Whose brains…

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Melanippus

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31
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Who cursed Eteocles and Polyneices?

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Oedipus

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32
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Who bribed Eriphyle?

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Polyneices

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33
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What did Polyneices use to bribe Eriphyle?

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the necklace of Harmonia

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34
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Whose wife did Polyneices bribe?

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Amphiarius’s

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35
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Who killed Polyneices?

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Eteocles

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36
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Who decreed that Polyneices’s body should remain unburied?

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Creon

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37
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Who buried Polyenices?

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Antigone

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38
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Who was the son of Polneices?

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Thersander

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39
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Who disobeyed Creon…

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Antigone

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40
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Who, using harmonia’s necklace…

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Polyneices

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41
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Who was the leader of the seven against Thebes?

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Adrastus

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42
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What son of Talaus and Lysimache…

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Adrastus

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43
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Who were the sons of Adrastus?

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Aegialeus and Cyanippus

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44
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Who was the father of Aegialeus?

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Adrastus

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45
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Who did Adrastus quarrel with which caused him to go to Sicyon?

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Amphiaraus

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46
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Who founded the Sicyonian games?

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Adrastus

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47
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Who instituted the Neamean games?

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Adrastus

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48
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Who was the horse of Adrastus?

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Arion

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49
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Who saved Adrastus from dying?

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Arion

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50
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What swift horse…

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Arion

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51
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Who, the only to survive the attack on…

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Adrastus

52
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Where did Adrastus die?

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Megara

53
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Who did Adrastus promise to help first?

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Polyneices

54
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Who prophesized that the only to survive would be Adrastus?

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Amphiarius

55
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Who was the father of Eteoclus?

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Iphis

56
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What son of Iphis…

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Eteoclus

57
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Who told Polyneices that he should bribe Eriphyle?

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Iphis

58
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What did Iphis advise Polyneices?

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to bribe Eriphyle

59
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What did Eriphyle demand of Amphiarius?

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that he must march against thebes

60
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Who were the sons of Amphiarius?

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Alcmaeon and Amphilocus

61
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What did Amphiarius make his sons promise?

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to avenge his death on their mother

62
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Where did the seven against thebes stop for water?

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Nemea

63
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What son of Lycurgus…

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Opheltes

64
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Who was the father of Opheltes?

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Lycurgus

65
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Who was king of nemea when the seven against thebes were there?

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Lycurgus

66
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What nurse of Opheltes…

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Hypsipyle

67
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What woman, the former queen of Lemnos…

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Hypsipyle

68
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Who laying in a bed of parsley…

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Opheltes

69
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Who laid Opheltes down in a bed of parsley?

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Hypsipyle

70
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Where did Hypsipyle lay Opheltes down?

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in a bed of parsley

71
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Who showed the seven against thebes to a spring?

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Hypsipyle

72
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How did Opheltes die?

A

a snake killed him

73
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What name was Opheltes named under?

A

Archemorous

74
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What does Archemorous mean?

A

beginner of doom

75
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Who won the chariot race at the first neamen games?

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Adrastus

76
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After what games were people crowned with parsley?

A

nemean games

77
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What did Amphiarius say Opheltes’s death foreshadowed?

A

their own fate

78
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Which of the seven against thebes was sent ahead…

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Tydeus

79
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Why was Tydeus sent ahead?

A

to demand Eteocles surrender

80
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Who led the fifty men sent to ambush Tydeus?

A

maeon and polyphontes

81
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What did Teiresias proclaim about the seven against thebes?

A

that the city would be saved if Menoceus were to sacrifice himself

82
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Who willingly sacrificed himself to save Thebes?

A

menoeceus

83
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What son of Creon was prophesized…

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Menoeceus

84
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Who declared that Menoeceus would have to sacrifice himself?

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Teiresias

85
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What boastful man scaled the walls of Thebes…

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capaneus

86
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Who shouted from the walls of Thebes that Zeus himself could not stop him from burning the city?

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Capaneus

87
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How did Capaneus die?

A

Zeus struck him with lightning

88
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Whose skull was crushed by a stone?

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Parthenopaeus

89
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Who cut off Melanippus’s head?

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Amphiaraus

90
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Who handed the head of Melanippus to Tydeus?

A

Amphiaraus

91
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Who pursued Amphiaraus?

A

Periclymenus

92
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Who was the charioteer of Amphiaraus?

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Baton

93
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Who almost killed Amphiaraus with his spear?

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Periclymenus

94
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How did Amphiaraus die?

A

Zeus split the earth with a thunderbolt and he was swallowed up

95
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Who ruled after Eteocles?

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Creon

96
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Who sent an army to Thebes demanding the bodies back?

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Theseus

97
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Where were the dead champions from the seven against thebes buried?

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Eleusis

98
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Who was Capaneus’s wife?

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Evadne

99
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Who burned herself on her husband’s funeral pyre?

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Evadne

100
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Whose wife burned herself on top of his funeral pyre?

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Capaneus’s

101
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Who buried Tydeus at thebes?

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Maeon

102
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What son of Hipponous and Astynome…

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Capaneus

103
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What son of Capaneus and Evadne…

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Sthenelus

104
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Who was the son of Capaneus?

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Sthenelus

105
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What son of Hippomedon…

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Polydorus

106
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What son of Hippomedon and Evanippe…

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Polydorus

107
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Who killed Hippomedon?

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Ismarus

108
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Who were the seven against thebes?

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Adrastus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polyneices & Tydeus

109
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Where were the common soldiers from the seven against thebes expedition buried?

A

Eleutherae

110
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Adrastus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polyneices & Tydeus

A

Seven against thebes

111
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What son of Atalanta…

A

Parthenopaeus

112
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Who was the bestie of Parthenopaeus?

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Telephus

113
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Who was the bestie of Telephus?

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Parthenopaeus

114
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Who was the son of Parthenopaeus?

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Promachus

115
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Who killed Parthenopaeus?

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Periclymenus

116
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Where did Parthenopaeus accompany Telephus?

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Teuthrania

117
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What man, the descendent of Melampus?

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Amphiaraus

118
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What son of Oicles and Hypermnestra…

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Amphiaraus

119
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Who married Adrastus’s sister Eriphyle?

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Amphiaraus

120
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Which of the seven against thebes, the seer….

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Amphiaraus

121
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What woman, betrothed to Haemon…

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Antigone

122
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Who acted as Oedipus’s guide until he died at Colonus?

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Antigone

123
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When Creon kidnapped Antigone, who saved her?

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Theseus

124
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How did Antigone die?

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buried and killed herself

125
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How did Haemon die?

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he killed himself after finding Antigone’s body

126
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Who killed Eteoclus?

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