Epic Myth Flashcards

Odyssey, Iliad, Aeneid, a little Ovid, and Misc.

Name the Epigoni.

Diomedes, Thersander, Aegialeus, Stenelus, Alcmaeon, Amphilochus, and Promachus

Before the athletic contest in Scheria, which bard sings about the Trojan war?

Demodocus

Which son of Alcinous invites Odysseus to compete in the athletic contests?

Laodamas

What daughter of Chariclo and Chiron had the gift of prophecy?

Ocyrhoe

Who did Ocyrhoe say would be a great healer but would be struck by lightning if he tried to bring back the dead?

Asclepius

According to Ovid, what nymph witnessed the kidnapping of Proserpina by Dis?

Cyane

Eētion

King of Hypoplacian Thebes who Achilles buried in his armor.

To whom was Hermione originally betrothed by her grandfather Tyndareus?

Orestes

Laius, Oedipus, Cadmus, and Pentheus are all…

kings of thebes

Who did Heracles defeat to rescue Pimplea?

Litierses

Who was the nymph Heracles betrayed?

Nomia

Who was the mother of Chiron?

Philyra

Who did Ixion kill, his father in law?

Eioneus

Who was the son of Ixion?

Pirithous

who found Glaucus, drowned in a vat of honey, and revived him?

Polyeidus

who cured Iphiclus of his impotence?

Melampus

How did Iphitus die?

Heracles threw him off the walls of Tirens

Who cured Minos of his Impotence?

Procris

Who plotted against her step-children and parched the seed corn?

Ino

Who married Belerophon?

Philinoe

Who was the daughter of Laomedon who was chained to a rock?

Hesione

What Lybian king tried to force Dido to marry him?

Iarbus

Who were Oedipus’s adopted parents?

Polybus and Merope

Other name for Polypemon

Procrustes

other name for Corynetes

Periphedes

king of Pherae

Admetus

Who was Theseus’s wife?

Phaedra

Who did Phaedra fall in love with, her son in law?

Hippolytus

Son of Apollo and Cyrene?

Aristaeus

What Thebian, the daughter of Cadmus, was the wife of Aristaeus?

Autonoe

According to Euripides, what two women - a Trojan and a Greek- fought for the affection of Neoptolemus?

Hermione and Andromache

Who eventually runs away with Hermione?

Orestes

Who lost a chariot race to Iolaus and was eaten by his own mares?

Glaucus

At whose funeral games did Glaucus lose a chariot race to Iolaus?

Pelias’s

What wife of Glaucus, the daughter of Nisus, was as wise as the gods thanks to the tutoring of Athena?

EURYNOME / EURYMEDE

What two brothers killed their other brother Chrysippus in order to appease their mother
Hippodameia?

ATREUS & THYESTES

After Atreus and Thyestes were banished from Pisa, what relative invited them to rule the
city of Midea?

STHENELUS

What woman, the daugher of the Cretan king Caterus, did Atreus buy as a slave from king
Nauplius and later marry?

Aerope

Who was the wife of Atreus?

Aerope

Wife of Ixion

Dia

Where does Perseus kill Cetus?

Joppa

Who did Aeetes marry to Phrixus?

Chalciope

What did Poseidon turn the suitors of Theopohone into?

Wolves

into what were the locals of Crimmusa turned?

Cattle

Phaecians carried Rhadamantus to Euboea to visit whom?

Tityus

Heracles’s mom?

Alcmena

What Argonaut is said to have killed Aeetes?

Meleager

Why did Althea kill Meleagar?

he killed her brothers, Toxeus and Plexippus

What did Jupiter give Tros in exchange for kidnapping his son, Ganymede?

Horses

Whose horses were related to the divine horses of Tros?

Anchises’s

Daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and sister of Arion?

Despoina

Who owned Arion?

Heracles, then Adrastus

What woman in love with Poseidon poured water in her lap and then bore him Otis and Ephialtes?

Iphimedeia

What Thraican king and son of Ares evenly matched Hercules in a wrestling match for man eating mares?

Diomedes

Son of Poseidon rescued from the sea and founded Eleusian mysteries, initiating Hercules in them?

Eumolpus

who sabatoged Oenomaus’s (Hippodamia’s dad) chariot for Pelops and was secretly in love with Hippodamia?

Myrtilus

Virbius was the other name of what man?

Hypolytus

What two men capture Helen and take her to Athens?

Pirithous and Theseus

Menestheus?

King of Athens placed on throne by Castor and Pollux

Who killed Theseus, where, and how?

King Lycomedes threw him off a cliff in Scyros

King of the Edonians who didn’t recognize Dionysus’s divinity?

Lycurgus

parents of Spermo, Oeno, and Elais?

Dorrippe and Anius

Leucosia, Ligeia, Parthenope?

Sirens

Son of Sthenalus and Nicippe

Eurystheus

who did Heracles get the girdle of Hypolyta for

Admete, Eyrystheus’s daughter

Mother of Dardanus?

Electra

Brother of Dardanus Zeus killed with thunderbolt?

Iasion

Son of Aeolus who tied bronze kettles to chariot.

Salmoneus

Pleiades

Electra Merope Taygete Maia  Calaeno Asterope Alcyone

Pleiades parents

Tethys Oceanus

With what king of Elusis did Demeter take refuge?

Celeus

Who was the husband of Hypermnestra

Lynceus

son of Io and Zeus?

Epaphus

Spn of Hypermnestra and Lynceus?

Abas

Son of Ajax and Tecmessa

Erysaces

sons of europa and zeus?

Minos, Rhadamanthys, Sarpedon

in what form did Poseidon rape Tyro?

Enipeus river

Tyro’s husband?

Cretheus

In Rome, Heracles won a prostitute while gambling?

Acca Laurentia

What uncles of his did Meleagar kill?

Toxius and Plexippus

river Hera was carried across?

anaurus river

Grandson of Tyro?

Jason

Jason’s dad and son of Tyro?

Aeson

Brother of Daeinira

Meleagar

plaiting rope that a donkey eats in Tartarus?

Ocnus

Who did Apollo spend the winter with?

Hyperboreans

parents of Theseus?

Aegeus and Aethra

Parents of Hercules?

Alcmene and Zeus (Amphitrion step dad)

Parents of Jason?

Aeson and Alcimede

Parents of Atalanta?

Schoineus/Iasus and Clymene

Parents of Odysseus?

Laertes and Anticlea

Grandson of Cadmus?

Pentheus

What bird rose from the ashes of conquered Ardea?

Heron

Aeneus other name

Indiges

Where was Eioneus king?

Pisa

What city did Perseus found?

Maecenae

He challenged people to a reaping contest

Liteirses

Xuthus??

son of King Aeolus and Cyane

On what peak of mt Ida does Zeus sleep?

MOUNT) GARGARUS

Transformed into *chalcis bird?*

Hypnos