Theseus and the Minotaur Flashcards

1
Q

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

A

King Aegeus

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2
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What did the Oracle at Delphi tell King Aegeus?

A

Do not Drink Wine

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3
Q

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

A

Princes Aethra

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4
Q

When was Theseus born?

A

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

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5
Q

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

A

A sword and sandals

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6
Q

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

A

16

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7
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What route did Theseus chose to take to get to Athens?

A

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

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8
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The many challenges and enemies Theseus encountered on his way to Athens

A

The Six Labors

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9
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What was one of the Six Labors Theseus encountered?

A

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

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10
Q

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

A

Medea

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11
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Who cheated on Medea and makes her go crazy killing people

A

Jason

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12
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Island of nightmares

A

Crete

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13
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What does Medea try to do to Theseus?

A

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.

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14
Q

who stops theseus from drinking the poisoned wine?

A

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

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15
Q

What did Poseidon do because he was angry?

A

sent white bull to Crete.

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16
Q

what happened when the white bull was sent to Crete?

A

King Minnos’s wife Pasiphae fell in love with it

17
Q

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

18
Q

half bull, half man

A

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

19
Q

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

20
Q

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

21
Q

What deal did Minos make with athens?

A

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

22
Q

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

A

Theseus, plans to use the sword his father gave him

23
Q

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

24
Q

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

A

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

25
Q

What happened when Theseus and the Minotaur fought?

A

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

26
Q

Asterion the Minotaur

A

ruler of the stars

27
Q

What is theseus’s superpower

A

not being afraid to die, fearless

28
Q

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

29
Q

How does Theseus feel about Ariadne?

A

Does not love her as much as she loves him

30
Q

where did Theseus leave ariadne

A

the island of Naxos

31
Q

what is the feminists view of theseus and ariadne?

A

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

32
Q

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

A

change the sails from black to white

33
Q

did theseus change the sails?

A

no, left them black which mean mourning

34
Q

what happened when theseus did not change the sails?

A

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

35
Q

what did theseus help Pirithous do

A

abduct Hades’s wife persephone form the underworld

36
Q

What happens to theseus and pirithous in the underworld?

A

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

37
Q

who saves Theseus but not Pirithous?

A

cousin Heracles

38
Q

who murdered Theseus

A

lycomedes in Skyros, pushes him off a cliff