Question 2

Question 1

Oedipus - father king

Answer 1

“Laois succeeded to the kingdom” - Apollodorus

Question 2

Oedipus - Attempt to kill hero as an infant

Answer 2

“After boring through its ankles with pins, Laios gave the child to a shepherd to expose” - Apollodorus

Question 3

Oedipus - Reared by foster parents in a far country

Answer 3

“She adopted it and passed it off as her own child” - Apollodorus

Question 4

Oedipus - Returns or goes to future kingdom

Answer 4

“He arrived in Thebes” - Apollodorus

Question 5

Oedipus - Is victor over king, giant, dragon or wild beast

Answer 5

“Oedipus…solved the riddle, upon which the Sphinx threw herself to her death” - Hyginus

Question 6

Oedipus - becomes king

Answer 6

“Oedipus was given his fathers Kingdom” - Hyginus

Question 7

Herakles - divine conception

Answer 7

“Alcmenia was amazed to find the night so long” - Hyginus

Question 8

Herakles - son of a god

Answer 8

“She gave birth to Hercules, the child she conceived with Jupiter” - Hyginus

Question 9

Herakles - attempt on life

Answer 9

Snakes sent by Hera - “Hera sent two enormous serpents into his bed” - Apollodorus

Question 10

Herakles - is victorius over a wild beast

Answer 10

“He held on, squeezing until he choked it” - Apollodorus

Question 11

Herakles - meets with mysterious death

Answer 11

“Hydra’s poison ate away his flesh” - Apollodorus