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Week 4 Flashcards

1
Q

Theseus parents

A

Aegeus and Aethra

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2
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Theseus alleged second father

A

Poseidon

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3
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What does aegeus leave for theseus under a boulder

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Sword and a pair of sandals

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4
Q

Make people wash their feet then kicks them off a cliff to a man-eating turtle

A

Sciron

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4
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Beats people with golden club

A

Periphites

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4
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Ties people to two trees and flings them to their death

A

Sinis (pine bender)

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5
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Inn keeper who stretches people to fit bed

A

Procrustes (stretcher)

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6
Q

What did ariadne do

A

Tells thesus to use yarn to find his way out the labyrinth and accompanies him to athens

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7
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King of eleusis who forces travelers to wrestle him

A

Cerycon

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7
Q

Who killed androgeos

A

Marathonian bull

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7
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Where was the minotaur put

A

Labyrinth on the island of crete

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7
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Pig of the old woman Phaea which runs wild

A

Commyonian Sow

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7
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Son of minos (king of crete)

A

Androgeos

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7
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Daughter of minos

A

Ariadne

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8
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What happens to ariadne

A

Gets left at the island of Naxos and marries Dionysus

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8
Q

What did aegeus request from theseus

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Put up a white sail if he was successful against the minotaur

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8
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What really happened when theseus returned?

A

Theseus forgets to take the black sails down

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8
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What did meleager do during the calydonian boar hunt

A

He killed his 2 uncles in order to give the hide to Atalanta

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8
Q

Aeson

A

King of Iolcus

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8
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Meleager parents

A

Oeneus and althea

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8
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What did the fates do when meleager is born

A

Gives althea a log and tells her that he will live as long as the log stays intact

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9
Q

What did atalanta do

A

Wounded the boar first

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9
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Aesons brother

A

Pelias

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9
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What does althea do in reaction

A

Burns meleager’s log to kill him

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9
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Jason parents

A

Aeson and Polymede

10
Q

Centaur that raised jason

A

Chiron

10
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What happens when jason returns to iolcus

A

He loses a shoe helping an old lady (hera in disguise)

11
Q

What happened to Iolcus

A

Pelias takes over, in which aeson sends jason to be raised by chiron

11
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What does king aeetes make jason do

A

Sow the ground with fire breathing bulls, plant teeth of a dragon, fight the men who grow from these teeth

11
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What does pelias tell jason

A

To get the golden fleece

11
Q

What is the golden fleece

A

A flying golden ram that was flown to Colchis by Phrixus and his sister Helle

11
Q

Jason’s crew

A

Argo

11
Q

King of Colchis

A

King Aeetes

12
Q

What happens to jason in Corinth

A

Falls inlove with the princess

12
Q

Daughter of aeetes

A

Medea

12
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What happens to Medea

A

She gets divorce and kills Glauce and her own children

12
Q

What does Medea do

A

She helps jason get the golden fleece and kills her brother to help them escape

12
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Medea brother

A

Apsyrtus

12
Q

Princess of Corinth

A

Glauce

13
Q

How does jason die

A

A piece of the ship falls on him

14
Q

Who encountered Cytissorus, Phrontis, Melas, and Argus shipwrecked, and brought them on the voyage to Colchis?

A

Argonauts / Jason

15
Q

Who was carried to Colchis by a flying ram with a golden fleece?

A

Phrixus

16
Q

After forcing fire-breathing bulls into submission, who yoked them to a plow and used them to sow a field with dragon’s teeth?

A

Jason

17
Q

What king was fated to die if strangers carried of the golden fleece?

A

Aeetes

18
Q

What son of Arestor built the ship which allowed Jason to sail to Colchis?

A

Argus

19
Q

Who successfully sailed through the symplegades in route to Colchis on his journey to obtain the Golden Fleece?

A

Jason

20
Q

What creature was wounded first by Atalanta and Amphiaraus before Meleager killed it?

A

Calydonian Boar

21
Q

Who killed his uncles Toxeus & Plexippus in a dispute over the hyde of the Calydonian Boar?

A

Meleager

21
Q

What maiden was temporarily condemned to the island of Naxos after she was abandoned by Theseus?

A

Ariadne

21
Q

Whose life did Atropos declare would last as long as a firebrand?

A

Meleager

22
Q

Who found joy in watching the recoil of a bent pine tree fling passersby to their death?

A

Sinis / Pityocamptes

22
Q

The inhabitants of Delos, commemorating the visit of Theseus danced in intricate patterns in order to imitate the windings of what Cretan structure?

A

labyrinth

23
Q

Who admired Heracles so much that he choose the perilous land route across the Isthmus of Corinth, in hopes of facing similar challenges?

A

Theseus

24
Q

Who neglected his father’s request to change the color of his black sail upon returning to Athens, causing his father to leap to his death?

A

Theseus

25
Q

What daughter of Minos did Theseus abandon on Naxos after she helped him escape the Labyrinth?

A

Ariadne

26
Q

What bandit was accustomed to making strangers fit his bed, until Theseus ended his life in the same manner?

A

Procrustes

27
Q

What Isthmian outlaw killed by Theseus would kick strangers off a cliff where they would become victim to a giant turtle below?

A

Sceiron

28
Q

What two tokens of his birth did Theseus have to find under a rock?

A

a sword & sandals

29
Q

Who gave birth to a son who grew up to be strong enough to move a heavy stone and claim the sword and sandals under it?

A

Aethra

30
Q

What sort of animal was the beast called Phaea, which Theseus killed at Crommyon?

A

boar / pig / sow

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