Section 105:
1. Who’s the biological son of Laius and grandson of Labdacus?
2. What told Laius that any child he had by Iocaste / Jocasta would murder him?
3. What is the more common name of the heroine Homer called Epicasta?
4. Whose name means “swollen foot”?
5. After he was exposed on Mt. Cithaeron, but rescued by a Corinthian shepherd, who raised Oedipus?
Word bank for # 1-5: Oedipus, King Polybus of Corinth, Jocasta, Delphic Oracle, Oedipus6. In less common version, Oedipus was locked in a and set adrift, but washed up on shore at Sicyon, where he was found by Periboea, Polybius’ queen.
7. Who told Oedipus that he would marry his mother and kill his father?
8. Whom did Oedipus kill in a narrow section of road by dragging him to death?
9. Who was Laius’ charioteer?
10. What monster was the daughter of Typhon and Echidne; or daughter of Orthrus and the Chimaera?
10a. [Fill in the blank] The Sphinx had the head of a , the body of a , the tail of a , and the wings of an
Word bank for # 6-10: The Sphinx, chest, Polyphontes, Pythoness, Laius11. Who sent the Sphinx to punish Laius and Thebes for the abduction of the boy Chrissipus of Pisa?
11a. What is the riddle of the Spinx and what is its answer?:
11b. What did the Sphinx do when Oedipus answered the riddle?
12. Oedipus then went to where he was proclaimed king.
13. But then, a terrible beset the Thebans.
13a. Oedipus again consulted the Delphic Oracle, and this was the response:
14. Teiresias informed Oedipus that the curse would stop only when a Sown Man died for the sake of the city? So, what father of Jocasta threw himself from the walls?
15. Who was turned into a woman after being bitten by a snake, then later turned back into a man after again being bitten by a snake?
15a. Explain the “contest” or bet Zeus & Hera had over Teiresias:
Word bank for # 11-15: plague, Teiresias, Hera (Juno), Thebes, Menoeceus16. Who hanged herself (& why) after the letter of Periboea arrived in Thebes?
17. Who blinded himself with his mother’s/sister’s brooches?
18. Acc. to some tales, Oedipus wandered for many years with his daugher
19. Oedipus died at near Athens.
20. The Furies who are called in Greek, in Latin the Dirae, chase people who murderer within their own families. They were later transformed into the Eumenides.
Word bank for # 16-20: Jocasta, Antigone, Oedipus, Erinnyes, ColonusSection 106:
21. Aegeia and Deipyle were the daughters of King , “The Unlucky”
22. The Delphic Oracle advised Adrastus to “Yoke to a 2-wheeled chariot a , ...”
23. Who was the twin brother of Polyneices (“many fights”) who refuse to let him take the throne of Thebes?
24. Who had killed his own brother, Melanippus, in the Calydonian boar hunt?
25. King Adrastus married off his daughter Aegeia to , & Deipyle to Tydeus
Word bank for # 21-25: Adrastus, Polyneices, Eteocles, Tydeus, boar and a lion26. Adrastus mustered Capaneus, Hippomedon, Amphiarus, Parthenopaeus, Polyneices, Tydeus to march on Thebes. Collectively called
27. Which one was a seer who did not want to join the expedition? Why was he unwilling?
28. Who was the sister of Adrastus and the wife of Amphiarus who stopped them from killing each other?
29. Who was originally given a magic necklace by Aphrodite as a wedding present? (And this necklace was given to Eriphyle by Polyneices to entice Amphiarus to come along.)
30. In some versions, who is the chieftain who marches on Thebes, instead of Polyneices?
Word bank for # 26-30: 7 against Thebes, Eriphyle, Harmonia, Eteoclus, Amphiarus31. Lycurgus, the king of , famed for its lion killed by Hercules, allowed the 7 and their troops to water their horses.
32. was the baby son of Lycurgus & Hypsipyle who was killed by snakebite; a bad omen!
33. Amphiarus interpreted the omen & advised them to set up the quadrennial Nemean Games. The judges wear black robes, and winners received crowns of .
34. Adrastus sent as a messenger to demand that Eteocles resign the kingdom of Thebes
35. Tydeus challenged all the chieftains of to a duel & defeated them all.
Word bank for # 31-35: Nemea, parsley, Opheltes, Tydeus, Thebes.36. Because Teiresias proclaimed that the Thebans would win if a prince of the royal house sacrificed himself to Ares, who committed suicide like his namesake uncle?
37. Which of the seven was struck by Zeus’ thunderbolt?
38. Which of the 7, now wounded, did Athena want to give a life-restoring potion?
39. Which of the 7, out of hatred, decapitated Melannipus and urged Tydeus to eat his brains?
40. So, only 3 of the seven were now alive: Amphiarus, Adrastus and .
Word bank for # 36-40: Amphiarus, Polyneices, Menoeceus, Tydeus, Capaneus41. Who challenged his twin brother, Eteocles, to a duel whereupon they were both killed?
42. Who then took command of the Theban army and routed the Argives?
43. Who was the charioteer of Amphiarus, who was also rescued by Zeus, who opened up the earth and took them to the Underworld, where Amphiarus rules among the dead?
44. The winged horse of Adrastus, who helped the Argives flee when all was lost.
45. marched on Thebes, captured the city & Creon, and permitted public burial.
Word bank for # 41-45: Polyneices, Baton, King Theseus of Athens, Creon, Arion46. , the wife of Capaneus, flung herself on his funeral pyre.
47. She disobeyed Creon’s orders not to bury traitors & buried her brother, Polyneices; Sophocles wrote a tragedy about her with her name as a title.
48. He was the son of Creon, and the fiancé of Antigone. His name means “bloody.”
49. In most versions of the tale, condemns Antigone to death by starvation in Polyneices’ tomb; but eventually Haemon and Antigone kill themselves a la Romeo & Juliet.
50. In other versions, Antigone was secreted away to live with shepherds, where she bore Haemon a son. This boy later competed in games but was recognized by Creon for this mark of , which all descendants of Cadmus have.
For questions 46-50: Evadne, Creon, serpent, Antigone, HaemonSection 107:
51. Literally, “the ones born after,” the sons of the 7 Against Thebes who swore revenge.
52. The Delphic Oracle promised victory if , son of Amphiarus, took command.
53. Thersander, the son of Polyneices, bribed Eriphyle (the widow of Amphiarus) with a (Athena’s wedding present to Harmonia) in order make her, Eriphyle, choose war and force Alcmaon to join the expedition.
54. The first of the Epigoni to die at Thebes was , son of Adrastus.
55. He prophesied Thebes would fall when Adrastus, the sole survivor of the original 7 died?
For questions 51-55: Epigoni, Aegialus, magic robe, Teiresias, Alcmaon56. Who fled with the Thebans and suddenly died at the spring of Tilphussa?
57. Who found the city of Thebes evacuated?
58. The daughter of Teiresias who sent to Delphi along with much booty, and was made the Pythoness.
59. Who killed Eriphyle, when he learned that she had received the bribe from Thersander?
60. Whom did Eriphyle call upon as she was dying to pursue ad haunt Alcmaon?
For questions 56-60: Teiresias, Manto (Daphne), The Erinnyes (Furies/Dirae), Argives, Alcmaon61. Alcmaon fled to Thresprotia, then to Psophis, where King Phegeus purified him of his murder & married him to his daughter, , to whom Alcmaon gave the famous necklace and magic robe.
62. A plague hit Psophis, so Alcmaeon consulted the Delphic Oracle which advised him to purify himself again in the waters of the river.
63. The river god, Achelous, gave to Alcmaeon his daughter, , whose name means “beautifully flowing.”
64. At Callirrhoë’s insistence, Alcmaeon deceived into forcing Arsinoë to give up the necklace and magic robe, by saying they were to appease the Erinnyes (Furies/Dirae)
65. A servant of Alcmaeon revealed the truth to Phegeus who ambushed and killed
For questions 61-65: Arsinoë, Alcmaeon, Phegeus, Achelous, Callirrhoë66. Who witnessed the murder of Alcmaeon, and was sent to the king of Nemea as a slave?
67. He commanded his sons to take the necklace and magic robe to Delphi.
68. Who prayed to Zeus to have her sons avenge the murderers of Alcmaeon, which they did by killing the sons of Phegeus at Nemea, then Phegeus at Psophis.
69. The sons of Callirrhoë later colonized near Epirus.
70. He was the famous soothsayer, son of Manto.
For questions 66-70: Callirrhoë, Acarnania, Arsinoë, King Phegeus of Psophis, MopsusSection 108
71. His mother was Pluto (daughter of Cronus and Rhea) and his father either Zeus of Mt. Tmolus. And he was either a king of Argos, Corinth, or in Paphlagonia.
72. Tantalos was the father of Pelops, , and Broteas.
73. Tantalus’ first crime was deceiving , his divine friend, by stealing food to share with mortals.
74. Tantalus’ 2nd crime was to cut up his son, , and feed him to the gods.
75. Who was the only god to eat Tantalus’ food.
For questions 71-75: Pelops, Tantalus, Demeter (Ceres), Niobe, Zeus (Jupiter)76. Tantalus is condemned with eternal . Explain the punishment.
77. Tantalus’ 3rd crime was to lie about having the golden made by Hephaestus to watch over baby Zeus in Crete. Pandareus stole it and gave it to Tantalos, or vice versa.
78. Pandareus and his wife, Harmothoë, were either killed or turned into stone. Their orphaned , Merope and Cleothera, were raised by Aphrodite.
79. Aëdon, another daughter of Pandareus and wife of Zethus, was envious of Niobe and her children. In trying to kill one of them (Sipylus), she accidentally killed her own son,
80. Zeus then transformed Aëdon into a .
For questions 76-80: hunger and thirst, Itylus, nightingale, daughters, dog,81. Zeus ordered this god to collect the body parts of Pelos and reboil them.
82. This god gave Pelops an ivory shoulder.
83. This god fell in love w/ Pelops & carried him up to Olympus via chariot to be a cupbearer
84. The mother of Pelos who was not aware of his ascension to Olympus and lamented.
85. The ugly son of Tantalus and good hunter who was driven mad by Artemis (Diana)
For questions 81-85: Poseidon (Neptune), Hermes (Mercury), Broteas, Demeter (Ceres), EurynassaSection 109:
86. Pelops, King of Paphlagonia, was driven out. Later, tried for the hand of , daughter of Oenomaus, who feared that a son-in-law would kill him.
87. Oenomaus was famed for his love of .
88. Oenomaus challenged all potential suitors of Hipodameia to a .
89. The prize for winning was Hippodameia, but the penalty was .
90. This god and father of Oenomaus gave wind-begotten mares, Psylla & Harmonia, to him.
For questions 86-90: Hippodameia, death, horses, Ares (Mars), chariot race91. The charioteer of Oenomaus.
92. Pelops was given a golden winged chariot by his lover, , which he drove over the Aegean Sea.
93. The charioteer of Pelops.
94. Because she loved Pelops, she persuaded Myrtilus to loosen the lynch pins and joints on Oenomaus’s chariot.
95. Who saw the ghost of Cillus in a dream and in the morning burned & buried Cillus’ body.
For questions 91-95: Hippodameia, Pelops, Myrtilus, Poseidon (Neptune), Cillas (Cellas)96. There is one tale that gave Pelops a magic object, which he buried, and caused the horse of Oenomaus to wreck the chariot, so Pelops could win.
97. On the island of , near Euboea, Pelops searched for water, and then he and Myrtilus quarreled over Hippodameia.
98. At the Cape of Geraestus, Pelops kicked over the cliff.
99. This god catasterized or turned Myrtilus into a star.
100. Pelops drove all the way west to the river Oceanus, cleansed himself, then returned to Pisa to rule in place of .
For questions 96-100: Amphion, Oenomaus, Helene, Hermes (Mercury), Myrtilus101. This land mass, where Sparta & Olympia are located, is literally “the island of Pelops.”
102. Pelops cut up this king of Olympia at a banquet & scattered his limbs.
103. Most people think that, , the son of Hermes, is the true horse-scarer.
104. Annually at Elis, a black ram is sacrificed to him, roasted on a fire of white poplar.
105. Pelops is also called the “Cronian One” and the ; & is the ancestor of the Achaeans.
For questions 101-105: Pelops, Peloponnese, Epeius, “The Horse-Beater”, MyrtilusSection 110:
106. She thanked Hera for helping her with her marriage to Pelops by founding the Herean Games at Elis, and the order of the 16 Matrons – who weave a special robe for Hera.
107. The only surviving daughter of Niobe, , won the 1st Heraean Games.
108. This son of Pelops and Hippodameia killed Callipolis by striking him dead with burning log.