Week 4 Flashcards
Theseus parents
Aegeus and Aethra
Theseus alleged second father
Poseidon
What does aegeus leave for theseus under a boulder
Sword and a pair of sandals
Make people wash their feet then kicks them off a cliff to a man-eating turtle
Sciron
Beats people with golden club
Periphites
Ties people to two trees and flings them to their death
Sinis (pine bender)
Inn keeper who stretches people to fit bed
Procrustes (stretcher)
What did ariadne do
Tells thesus to use yarn to find his way out the labyrinth and accompanies him to athens
King of eleusis who forces travelers to wrestle him
Cerycon
Who killed androgeos
Marathonian bull
Where was the minotaur put
Labyrinth on the island of crete
Pig of the old woman Phaea which runs wild
Commyonian Sow
Son of minos (king of crete)
Androgeos
Daughter of minos
Ariadne
What happens to ariadne
Gets left at the island of Naxos and marries Dionysus
What did aegeus request from theseus
Put up a white sail if he was successful against the minotaur
What really happened when theseus returned?
Theseus forgets to take the black sails down
What did meleager do during the calydonian boar hunt
He killed his 2 uncles in order to give the hide to Atalanta
Aeson
King of Iolcus
Meleager parents
Oeneus and althea
What did the fates do when meleager is born
Gives althea a log and tells her that he will live as long as the log stays intact
What did atalanta do
Wounded the boar first
Aesons brother
Pelias
What does althea do in reaction
Burns meleager’s log to kill him
Jason parents
Aeson and Polymede
Centaur that raised jason
Chiron
What happens when jason returns to iolcus
He loses a shoe helping an old lady (hera in disguise)
What happened to Iolcus
Pelias takes over, in which aeson sends jason to be raised by chiron
What does king aeetes make jason do
Sow the ground with fire breathing bulls, plant teeth of a dragon, fight the men who grow from these teeth
What does pelias tell jason
To get the golden fleece
What is the golden fleece
A flying golden ram that was flown to Colchis by Phrixus and his sister Helle
Jason’s crew
Argo
King of Colchis
King Aeetes
What happens to jason in Corinth
Falls inlove with the princess
Daughter of aeetes
Medea
What happens to Medea
She gets divorce and kills Glauce and her own children
What does Medea do
She helps jason get the golden fleece and kills her brother to help them escape
Medea brother
Apsyrtus
Princess of Corinth
Glauce
How does jason die
A piece of the ship falls on him
Who encountered Cytissorus, Phrontis, Melas, and Argus shipwrecked, and brought them on the voyage to Colchis?
Argonauts / Jason
Who was carried to Colchis by a flying ram with a golden fleece?
Phrixus
After forcing fire-breathing bulls into submission, who yoked them to a plow and used them to sow a field with dragon’s teeth?
Jason
What king was fated to die if strangers carried of the golden fleece?
Aeetes
What son of Arestor built the ship which allowed Jason to sail to Colchis?
Argus
Who successfully sailed through the symplegades in route to Colchis on his journey to obtain the Golden Fleece?
Jason
What creature was wounded first by Atalanta and Amphiaraus before Meleager killed it?
Calydonian Boar
Who killed his uncles Toxeus & Plexippus in a dispute over the hyde of the Calydonian Boar?
Meleager
What maiden was temporarily condemned to the island of Naxos after she was abandoned by Theseus?
Ariadne
Whose life did Atropos declare would last as long as a firebrand?
Meleager
Who found joy in watching the recoil of a bent pine tree fling passersby to their death?
Sinis / Pityocamptes
The inhabitants of Delos, commemorating the visit of Theseus danced in intricate patterns in order to imitate the windings of what Cretan structure?
labyrinth
Who admired Heracles so much that he choose the perilous land route across the Isthmus of Corinth, in hopes of facing similar challenges?
Theseus
Who neglected his father’s request to change the color of his black sail upon returning to Athens, causing his father to leap to his death?
Theseus
What daughter of Minos did Theseus abandon on Naxos after she helped him escape the Labyrinth?
Ariadne
What bandit was accustomed to making strangers fit his bed, until Theseus ended his life in the same manner?
Procrustes
What Isthmian outlaw killed by Theseus would kick strangers off a cliff where they would become victim to a giant turtle below?
Sceiron
What two tokens of his birth did Theseus have to find under a rock?
a sword & sandals
Who gave birth to a son who grew up to be strong enough to move a heavy stone and claim the sword and sandals under it?
Aethra
What sort of animal was the beast called Phaea, which Theseus killed at Crommyon?
boar / pig / sow
