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Hector's son who fears him when he's wearing armor, but recognizes and loves him without it
Astyanax
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Achilles asks Thetis to talk to ____ which upsets ____
Zeus, Hera
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Calchas foresees that ____ must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia for angering Artemis
Agamemnon
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Who throws Thetis and Peleus's wedding?
Hera
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Son of Thetis and Peleus
Achilles
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Thyestes rapes ____, who happens to be his daughter
Pelopia
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mother: Pelopia father: Atreus bio father: Thyestes
Aegisthus
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Thyestes says that whoever has the ____ will be king
golden lamb skin
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According to Tiresias, ____ feel more pleasure during sex
women
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2nd most important city in Greek myth
Thebes
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Founder and first king of Thebes
Cadmus
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Son of Agenor and Telephassa, and brother of Europa
Cadmus
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Cadmus goes to ____ for help and is told to find a new city
Oracle at Delphi / Pythia
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Cadmus followed a ____ to the site where he was to found Thebes.
cow
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Cadmus follows a cow to where?
Boeotia (cowland)
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What kills Cadmus's men at the nearby spring?
Serpent / Dragon
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Who kills the serpent in Thebes?
Cadmus
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Who suggests that Cadmus plant the serpent's teeth?
Athena
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What grows from planting the serpent's teeth?
Armed men
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armed men grow from the serpent's teeth and immediatley…
fight each other
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The five serpent-teeth men who survive fighting each other
Spartoi (sown men)
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Cadmus marries ____, daughter of Aphrodite and Ares
Harmonia
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Who made Harmonia's wedding dress and necklace?
Hephaestus
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Cadmus and Harmonia's children who are all cursed by gods
Semele, Ino, Autonoe, Agave
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Mother of Dionysus who was blasted by Zeus
Semele
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__ and Athamas kill their children after angering ____ for taking care of baby Dionysus
Ino; Hera
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___'s son Actaeon killed by his own dogs after angering ____ by watching her bath.
Autonoe; Artemis
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____ rips apart son, Pentheus
Agave
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Special place for heroic or virtuous souls after death
Elysian fields
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Son of Labdacus, becomes king of Thebes
Laius
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Laius and Jocasta are parents of
Oedipus
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Laius receives an oracle that ____ will kill him
his son
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Oedipus means …
Swollen feet
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Oedipus grows up. to be Prince of …
Corninth
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____ tells Oedipus that he will kill his father and marry his mother.
Oracle at Delphi
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From what creature does Oedipus save Thebes?
Sphinx
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Answer to the Sphinx's riddle: What is four-footed and two-footed and three-footed though it has but one voice?
Man
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Children of Oedipus and Jocasta
Polyneices, Eteocles, Ismene, Antigone
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Blood pollution
Miasma
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Plague in Thebes is a result of ____ caused by the killer of Laius which is Oedipus .
miasma
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Sophocles’s Oedipus the King begins with Oedipus trying to rid Thebes of
plague
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Oedipus demonstrates that wisdom comes from
suffering
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Whose greatness consists of bravery, quick thinking, decisive action, concern for others?
Oedipus
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Oedipus seeks ____ so he send his brother-in-law Creon to talk to the Pythia
knowledge
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Is Oedipus confident or insecure?
confident
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Tiresias reveals that ____ killed Laius?
Oedipus
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Oedipus calls ______ “blind in mind and ears as well as in your eyes”
Tiresias
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Messenger tells Oedipus that ____ is dead
King of Corinth (his dad)
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___ is the only person from Oedipus's past who's still alive
Shepard
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when Oedipus realizes who his parents/ wife are… he …
blinds himself
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Who has a “need to leave the city and his need to be with others?'“
Oedipus
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Oedipus died under the protection of …
Theseus
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Where does Oedipus die?
Grove of the Furies near Colonus, outside Athens
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(T/F) Sophocles' "trilogy" about the House of Oedipus was written as a trilogy
False
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Second greatest war in Greek myth
Seven against Thebes
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Two plays written about Seven against Thebes
Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes (467 BCE) Euripides's Phoenician Women (411 BCE)
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Who rule(s) Thebes after Oedipus?
Eteocles and Polyneices
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Which brother doesn't pass the power of ruling Thebes to the other?
Eteocles
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Where does Polyneices go after Eteocles doesn't pass on his power?
Argos
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What does Polyneices take with him to Argos?
Harmonia's divinely made necklace and robes
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Who tries to capture Thebes for Polyneices?
Adrastos (King of Argos)
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__ advises Adrastos not to capture Thebes for Polyneices
Amphiaraös (the seer)
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Amphiaraös's wife ____ is bribed by Polyneices and tells Adrastos to help him.
Eriphyle
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Polyneices, Adrastos, and Amphiaraös are 3/7 of the members of the...
Seven against Thebes
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Seven champions on each side; a ____ to defend each gate, a man with the ____ to attack it
Theban; Argives
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Eteocles and Polynices fight against each other and ____ survive(s).
neither
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Who is the only survivor of the Seven against Thebes?
Adrastos (king of Argos)
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What happened to the end of the Seven against Thebes play when Sophocles's Antigone was made?
Rewrote ending
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Laius defied Apollo ____ times
3
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Laius defying Apollo led to ____ over 3 generations
punishment
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(T/F) Success is an indicator of right and wrong
False
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Who is king after Eteocles?
Creon
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Creon declares Eteocles a ____ and Polyneices a ____
Hero, traito
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Who defies Creon's order and buries Polyneices?
Antigone
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Creon's son, engaged to Antigone
Haemon
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Who tells Creon to free Antigone and bury Polyneices?
Tiresias
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How does Antigone die?
She hangs herself
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Haemon fails at killing Creon, so he...
kills himself
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After her son Haemon dies, Eurydice...
kills herself
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Sophocles's hero would be a ____ Creon
flexible
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(T/F) Sophocles considers wisdom to be the biggest element of happiness
False
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Sons of the original seven
Epigonoi
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Adrastos is pitied by ____ after he survives the seven against Thebes
Theseus
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Theseus sends expedition of Athenians so that Argives can …
bury their dead
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10 years later, the sons of the original 7
attack Thebes
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___'s father, Amphiaraös, makes him kill his mother, Eriphyle
Alcmaion
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Tiresias was changed into a woman because he killed a ____ while it was procreating.
female snake
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___ blinds Tiresias so that he doesn't promote adultery
Hera
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____ gives Tiresias the gift of prophecy and seven times the life expectancy
Zeus
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Greatest prophet in Thebes
Tiresias
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Tiresias appears in these three playwrights'/authors' works
Sophocles, Euripides, Homer
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Poems using the Trojan war as background are referred to as …
The Epic Cycle
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(T/F) The Epic Cycle is Homeric
False
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Tantalus is forever ____ in the Underworld
punished
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Daughter of Oinomaos
Hippodamia
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Most famous sons of Pelops and Hippodamia
Atreus and Thyestes
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Agamemnon and Menelaus are sons of …
Atreus
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Aegistus is the son of …
Thyestes
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Atreus promised to sacrifice his finest …..
sheep
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Atreus's wife gave the golden lamb skin to.
Thyestes
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