Medea For Jolly

Question 1

What Colchian sorceress…?

Answer 1

Medea

Question 2

Who were the parents of Medea?

Answer 2

Aeetes and Eidyia (sometimes Hecate)

Question 3

Who was the youngest of the Oceanids?

Answer 3

Eidyia

Question 4

Who was Medea a priestess of?

Answer 4

Hecate

Question 5

What sister of Aeetes was related to Medea for her magical powers?

Answer 5

Circe

Question 6

What goddess caused Medea’s journey to Greece?

Answer 6

Hera

Question 7

What goddesses caused Medea to fall in love with Jason?

Answer 7

Hera and Aphrodite

Question 8

Who lulled the dragon guardian of the Golden Fleece to sleep?

Answer 8

Medea

Question 9

Out of love for Jason, what brother of Medea did she and Jason kill?

Answer 9

Apsyrtus

Question 10

Why did Medea throw the pieces of her brother into the sea?

Answer 10

So that the members of the Argo would have to gather the prices for a proper burial and delay chasing her and Jason

Question 11

Who purified Jason and Medea for the murder of Apsyrtus?

Answer 11

Circe

Question 12

What bronze giant did Medea?

Answer 12

Talus

Question 13

Where did Medea and Jason get married?

Answer 13

Pheacians island of Drepane

Question 14

What island was Talus guarding?

Answer 14

Crete

Question 15

Slitting his throat, draining his blood, and filling his veins with her concoction was the action of Medea on what man?

Answer 15

Aeson

Question 16

Why did Medea put her concoction in Aeson’s veins?

Answer 16

To restore his youth

Question 17

Asking to have years taken off his life and given to his father…?

Answer 17

Jason

Question 18

In the appearance of a old women, who hobbled to the gates of Iolcus claiming to be a priestess?

Answer 18

Medea

Question 19

Of what god did Medea make a bronze statue of?

Answer 19

Artemis

Question 20

Who did Medea claim to be a priestess at Iolcus’s city gates?

Answer 20

Hyperboean Artemis

Question 21

What animal did Medea put into the cauldron as a demonstration for her concoction?

Answer 21

A ram (she somehow pulled out a lamb though so that makes no sense)

Question 22

What pious daughter of Pelias was reluctant to agree to Medea’s methods even after the demonstration?

Answer 22

Alcestis

Question 23

What son of Pelias took the throne of Iolcus after the former and kicked out Jason and Medea?

Answer 23

Acastus

Question 24

Where did Jason and Medea come to rule after the got kicked from Iolcus?

Answer 24

Corinth

Question 25

Who left the throne of Corinth to Bunus?

Answer 25

Aeetes

Question 26

What emigrant from Colchis…?

Answer 26

Bunus(maybe a 1 in 1)

Question 27

Who was the successor to Bunus as king of Corinth who died childless?

Answer 27

Corinthus

Question 28

In the usual story, what king of Corinth is said to have let Jason and Medea into Corinth to live for 10 years?

Answer 28

Creon

Question 29

What two sons did Medea and Jason have? (Some accounts say they have three sons which are in parentheses)

Answer 29

Mermercus and Pheres (Thessalus, Alcimenes, and Tisandrus)

Question 30

What daughter of Creon did Jason divorce Medea to marry?

Answer 30

Glauce or Creusa

Question 31

What does Pausanias say was Jason’s reasoning for leaving Corinth?

Answer 31

Medea’s habits of hiding their children at birth in Hera’s shrine in the vain hope of making them immortal

Question 32

Sending a poisoned robe to Glauce..?

Answer 32

Medea

Question 33

Though she jumped into a well to quench the fire, what wife of Jason died in agony?

Answer 33

Glauce

Question 34

What was the fate of Creon, Glauce’s father?

Answer 34

Dying in the same fire as Glauce

Question 35

What gift from Helios saved Medea from the angry Corinthians?

Answer 35

A chariot drawn by winged dragons

Question 36

What was helios’s relationship to Medea?

Answer 36

Grandfather

Question 37

Being stoned to death on Hera’s altar…?

Answer 37

Mermerus and Pheres

Question 38

Who did Medea cure of madness at Thebes?

Answer 38

Heracles

Question 39

What king did Medea as for protection if she came to Athens?

Answer 39

Aegeus

Question 40

Why did Aegeus give Medea protection?

Answer 40

She promised to use her arts to give the aging king the children he had been denied

Question 41

Who was son of Aegeus and Medea?

Answer 41

Medus

Question 42

What task did Aegeus send Theseus to do first?

Answer 42

Capture the Marathonian Bull

Question 43

What son of Minos already died from the Marathonian bull?

Answer 43

Androgeus

Question 44

Poisoning a cup with aconite, was the action of Medea to kill what man?

Answer 44

Theseus

Question 45

Why did Medea want Theseus killed?

Answer 45

She wanted her son Medus to rule next

Question 46

What brother of Aeetes killed him?

Answer 46

Perses

Question 47

What city was overrun by snakes and was where Apsyrtus was buried?

Answer 47

Absoros

Question 48

Who did Medus pretend to be when he went to Colchis?

Answer 48

Hippotes, son of Creon

Question 49

Who ended up killing Perses?

Answer 49

Medus

Question 50

How did the oracle say Perses would die?

Answer 50

A descendant of Aeetes would kill him

Question 51

Where was Medea said to be a consort of Achilles?

Answer 51

Elysian Fields