Week 8 Flashcards
Who excavated to Crete in the 1900s?
Sir Arthur Evans
Why did Europa go to Crete?
Zeus was disguised as a bull, she climbed on his back and off they went.
Why did Poseidon curse Pasiphae to fall in love with a bull?
Mino was married to her and meant to sacrifice that bull.
Who made Pasiphae the wooden cow so she could get impregnated by the bull and birth a minotaur?
Daedelus
How did Androgëus die?
He did so well at the athletic games in Athens that it annoyed the King Aegus. Aegus ordered him to fight the bull and Androgëus died trying to do this.
Why did Theseus decide against marrying Adriadnê?
She betrayed her father in helping Theseus learn how to kill the minotaur.
How did Minos die?
Cocalus’s daughters killed him in his bath with boiling water. Minos demanded to have Daedelus back from the King Cocalus and he took a bath whilst waiting.
“Seven-gated ____”
Seven-gated Thebes
Who kept looking for Europa after his brothers gave up?
Cadmus
Why did Cadmus’s companions die?
He sent them to fetch water for a sacrifice and Ares’s dragon killed them as the dragon was guarding the well.
Harmonia’s necklace was cursed, a wedding gift for Cadmus and Harmonia, made by ____ and given by ____.
Harmonia’s necklace was cursed, a wedding gift for Cadmus and Harmonia, made by Hephaestus and given by Aphrodite.
Who was Thebes named after?
Zethus’s wife, Thebê
Who wrote Oedipus Tyrannos?
Sophocles
Why was Laius cursed with the prediction that his own son would murder him?
He violated xenia by raping his host’s, Pelop’s, son.
Who did Laius marry and finally have sex with after getting drunk?
Jocasta
How did Oedipus get his name?
Laius sent a messenger to expose Oedipus, Oedipus’s feet were pinned together: swollen feet.
What was the riddle that the Sphinx, daughter of Typhoeus, terrorized Thebes with?
What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?
Why did Oedipus flee his home?
An oracle told him he would kill his father and marry his mother. He didn’t understand that his adoptive parents were not the ones to be worried about.
Crossroads incident
Oedipus killed a man at a crossroads. It was his father Laius.
Who was the interim king while Laius was away from Thebes?
Creon
What was the reward for solving the sphinx’s riddle?
To rule Thebes and marry the queen Jocasta.
