Theseus and the Minotaur

Question 1

Was not able to have a child, went to the Oracle of Delphi, was seduced by friend’s daughter and had a child

Answer 1

King Aegeus

Question 2

What did the Oracle at Delphi tell King Aegeus?

Answer 2

Do not Drink Wine

Question 3

daughter of King Pittheus, seduced King Aeugues, mother of theseus

Answer 3

Princes Aethra

Question 4

When was Theseus born?

Answer 4

around 1220BC, later part of the Mycenean Era/Bronze Age

Question 5

What did King Aegeus place under a boulder for his son to return to him once old enough to retrieve?

Answer 5

A sword and sandals

Question 6

At what age did Theseus move the boulder to get the sword and sandals?

Answer 6

16

Question 7

What route did Theseus chose to take to get to Athens?

Answer 7

The overland travel route instead of sea, Heros always chose the route of pain

Question 8

The many challenges and enemies Theseus encountered on his way to Athens

Answer 8

The Six Labors

Question 9

What was one of the Six Labors Theseus encountered?

Answer 9

defeating the bandit murderer Periphetes and taking his infamous bronze club as a trophy

Question 10

Sorceress, married to King Aegeus, betrayed lover of the hero Jason, Theseus’s stepmother

Answer 10

Medea

Question 11

Who cheated on Medea and makes her go crazy killing people

Answer 11

Jason

Question 12

Island of nightmares

Answer 12

Crete

Question 13

What does Medea try to do to Theseus?

Answer 13

tries to poison him through wine, sees him as a treat since he is Aegeus’s son, wants her children with him to be the heir to the throne.

Question 14

who stops theseus from drinking the poisoned wine?

Answer 14

King Aegeus, because of what the Oracle said. made medea vanish

Question 15

What did Poseidon do because he was angry?

Answer 15

sent white bull to Crete.

Question 16

what happened when the white bull was sent to Crete?

Answer 16

King Minnos’s wife Pasiphae fell in love with it

Question 17

King Mino’s wife, fell in love with a white bull and had a child from it

Answer 17

Pasiphase

Question 18

half bull, half man

Answer 18

Minotaur, terrorized everyone in Crete, was put into a labyrinth, maze

Question 19

Minos’s son with Pasiphase, great athlete, went to Athens and was murdered

Answer 19

Androgeos

Question 20

Waged war with Athens because his son was killed, asked Zeus for justice, sent plauges to Athens

Answer 20

Minos

Question 21

What deal did Minos make with athens?

Answer 21

give him 14 virgins, 7 young men, and 7 young women, as an annual food sacrifice to the Minotaur

Question 22

Who volunteered to be one of the 14 so he could kill the Minotaur?

Answer 22

Theseus, plans to use the sword his father gave him

Question 23

Princess of Crete, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, fell in love with Theseus and agreed to help him kill the Minotaur.

Answer 23

Ariadne

Question 24

What did Ariadne give Theseus to help him kill the Minotaur?

Answer 24

Ball and string to help get back out of the maze.

Question 25

What happened when Theseus and the Minotaur fought?

Answer 25

Theseus killed Asterion the Minotaur with his sword then led the others out following the ball and string.

Question 26

Asterion the Minotaur

Answer 26

ruler of the stars

Question 27

What is theseus's superpower

Answer 27

not being afraid to die, fearless

Question 28

god who came to theseus in a dream telling him to abandon Ariadne, loves her and wishes to make her a goddess, wine and intoxication

Answer 28

Dionysus

Question 29

How does Theseus feel about Ariadne?

Answer 29

Does not love her as much as she loves him

Question 30

where did Theseus leave ariadne

Answer 30

the island of Naxos

Question 31

what is the feminists view of theseus and ariadne?

Answer 31

without ariadnes help he would not have gotten out of the labyrinth, the ball and string was her idea.

Question 32

what did theseu's father tell him to do when he was sailing back home to tell him he was ok

Answer 32

change the sails from black to white

Question 33

did theseus change the sails?

Answer 33

no, left them black which mean mourning

Question 34

what happened when theseus did not change the sails?

Answer 34

his father killed himself by jumping off a cliff into the Aegean sea, making theseus king

Question 35

what did theseus help Pirithous do

Answer 35

abduct Hades's wife persephone form the underworld

Question 36

What happens to theseus and pirithous in the underworld?

Answer 36

hades knows what they are up to, seats them on stones that they can not get up from and are tortured by furies

Question 37

who saves Theseus but not Pirithous?

Answer 37

cousin Heracles

Question 38

who murdered Theseus

Answer 38

lycomedes in Skyros, pushes him off a cliff