Week 6 Flashcards
Rolls boulder up hill
Sisyphus
Spinning wheel of fire
Ixion
Bird eats liver daily
Tityus
Eternal hunger and thirst
Tantalus
49 sisters carry water in leaky buckets
Danaids
Chairs of forgetfulness
Heracles and Peirithous
King of Sparta, husband of Helen
Menelaus
King of Mycenae/king of the Greeks; Husband of Clytemnestra
Agamemnon
Best fighter of Greeks; son of Pelias and Thetis
Achilles
2nd greatest fighter of the Greeks, vied with Odysseus for Achilles’ armor (lost)
Ajax the Greater
Thought of the wooden horse; King of Ithaca, took 10 years to return home from Trojan War
Odysseus
King of Troy; name means ransomed one
Priam
Priam’s original name
Podarces
Wife of Priam; mother of Hector, Priam, Cassandra, Helenus and others
Hecuba
Best fighter of Trojans, killed by Achilles
Hector
Son of Priam, steals Helen, killed Achilles with an arrow (with help of Apollo)
Paris
Changes men to animals
Circe (Aeaea)
Detains Odysseus for 7 years
Calypso (Ogygia)
Loyal Swineherd
Eumaeus
Loyal Cowherd
Philoetius
Unfaithful Goatherd
Melanthius
King and Queen of Scheria who host Odysseus
Alcinous and Arete
Dog who dies upon finally seeing his master return
Argus
Nurse who recognizes Odysseus by the scar on his leg
Eurycleia
Most Incolent
Antinous
Most Favored
Eurymachus
Faithful wife of Odysseus, weaves and unweaves a shroud daily to delay
Penelope
Son of Odysseus who goes looking for his father
Telemachus
What ithacan swineherd remained faithful to Odysseus?
Eumaeus
What son of Ctesius served as Odysseus’ loyal swineherd?
Eumaeus
What island did Odysseus call home for 7 years while under the charms of Calypso?
Ogygia
Agenor, Leodes, Amphimedon, Eurymachus, and Antinous were all suitors of what Ithacan queen?
Penelope
Who slaughtered several sheep which he thought were the Greek chieftains and killed himself in shame after losing the contest for Achilles’ armor?
Ajax the Greater
Who acquired a bag full of winds, which he was advised not to open until he saw the Ithaca?
Odysseus
Who provoked the jealous rage of three goddesses when she threw an apple labeled for the most beautiful?
Eris
“Who prayed to his father that ““nobody”” be punished for blinding his only eye with a wooden stake?”
Polyphemus
Who was shocked when Calypso urged him to build a raft, after remaining captive to her spells for seven years?
Odysseus
Who was tied to the mast of his ship as he sailed past the Sirens so that he could hear their song?
Odysseus
Who unwove by night the shroud which she spun during the day in order to delay her marriage to a suitor?
Penelope
What king was ransomed as a child from Heracles by his sister, fathered numerous children, and died at the hands of a Greek warrior as Troy was falling?
Podarces
Who encountered the Cicones, the Lotophagi, the Phaeaecians and several others during his voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War?
Odysseus
What concept, brought to life by Epeius, was originally envisioned by Odysseus and gave the Greeks a way to infiltrate the city of Troy?
Trojan Horse
Which of the sinners of Tartarus, because he was the first mortal to murder a relative, spends his time getting dizzy on a wheel of fire?
Ixion
What son of Laius and Jocasta inadvertently killed his father at a crossroads and married his mother?
Oedipus
Which of the sinners of Tartarus, because he fed the flesh of his own son to the gods, spends his time trying to get food and water for himself?
Tantalus
Because of his crimes such as handcuffing Hades, what mortal was forever forced to roll a boulder up a hill in the underworld?
Sisyphus
What giant is eternally punished in the Underworld by having his body streched to cover nine acres while two vultures ate his heart?
Tityus
Who in the Underworld was condemned to carry water in jars which leaked like sieves?
Danaids
