Week 9, Chpt 19, 20

Question 1

What did Oedipus and Jocasta do when they discovered that they are mother and son?

Answer 1

Jocasta killed herself and Oedipus poked his eyes out with pins from Jocasta’s robes.

Question 2

Oedipus was a tragic

Answer 2

hero.

Question 3

Anagnorisis

Answer 3

Recognition. Oedipus realizes what he’s done.

Question 4

Peripateä

Answer 4

Downfall, Oedipus falls when he realizes what he’s done.

Question 5

Who created “7 Against Thebes”?

Answer 5

Aeschylus

Question 6

Who got told to “yoke” his daughters?

Answer 6

Adrastus

Question 7

Why does Eriphylê marry Amphiaraus?

Answer 7

So that she will always take her brother’s (Adrastus) side in arguments, therefore the attack on Thebes will continue despite the prediction that all will die except Adrastus.

Question 8

Who tells Eteocles and Polynices to get away from Oedipus and his bones?

Answer 8

Theseus

Question 9

__ commanders for each gate at the battle of Thebes

Answer 9

7

Question 10

Why did Athena decide against giving Tydeus an immortality potion?

Answer 10

He ate the brains of his enemy.

Question 11

Why was Antigonê buried alive in a cave?

Answer 11

She threw dust on her brother’s body, against the will of Creon.

Question 12

Argonautica is by

Answer 12

Apollonius of Rhodes

Question 13

Medea by

Answer 13

Euripides

Question 14

Who guards the golden fleece?

Answer 14

A dragon born from the blood of Typhoeus.

Question 15

Why was Jason sent by Pelias to get the golden fleece, an impossible task?

Answer 15

Pelias heard from an oracle that a man with one sandal would kill him.

Question 16

Who did Jason marry?

Answer 16

Medea and then Glaucê

Question 17

Who gives Jason a magic ointment for protection and drugs the dragon guarding the fleece?

Answer 17

Medea

Question 18

What did Medea do to her brother to distract her father?

Answer 18

She chopped her brother up and scattered the pieces in the ocean. Her father had to find the pieces so he could properly bury his son.

Question 19

Why were Jason and Medea thrown out of Thebes?

Answer 19

They tricked Pelias’s daughters into killing him. They killed the king.

Question 20

Why was Tantalus punished in the underworld with never eating or drinking?

Answer 20

He fed the gods his son.

Question 21

Who accidentally ate Pelops?

Answer 21

Demeter

Question 22

Why did Oenomaüs enforce a chariot race for his daughters hand in marriage?

Answer 22

He was in love with his daughter.

Question 23

How does Pelops win the chariot race?

Answer 23

He bribes the charioteer to sabotage Oenomaüs with the first night with Hippodamia. He later throws the charioteer off of a cliff so he doesn’t have to fulfill his end of the deal.

Question 24

How does Atreus get revenge on Thyestus for sleeping with his wife?

Answer 24

He feeds Thyestus his sons.

Question 25

How does Odysseus come to marry Penelope?

Answer 25

He offers advice to Tyndareüs about marrying Helen off. Anyone wishes to throw their hat in the ring for Helen’s hand in marriage must agree to support the marriage no matter the outcome.