Seven Against Thebes Flashcards
(126 cards)
1
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What son of Talaus…
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Adrastus
2
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What two people did Adrastus find on the porch of his palace?
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Polyneices and Tydeus
3
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What sons of oedipus…
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Eteocles and Polyneices
4
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What son of Oeneus, one of the…
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Tydeus
5
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What was on Polyneices’s shield?
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a lion
6
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What was on Tydeus’s shield?
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a boar
7
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What daughters of Adrastus…
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Argeia and Deipyle
8
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What had an oracle told Adrastus about his daughters?
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That he should yoke them to a lion and a boar
9
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Who was told by an oracle that he should yoke his daughters to a lion and a boar?
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Adrastus
10
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Who did Tydeus marry?
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Deipyle
11
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Who did Polyneices marry?
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Argeia
12
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Who was awakened one night by two men arguing on his porch?
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Adrastus
13
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Who went to Argos in search of assistance in recovering their kingdoms?
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Polyneices and Tydeus
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What calydonian warrior, one of the s…
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Tydeus
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What son of Oeneus and Periboea…
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Tydeus
16
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Who banished Tydeus from Calydon?
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Agrius
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What uncle of Tydeus…
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Agrius
18
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Why was Tydeus banished from Calyon?
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For killing an uncle
19
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Who was the husband of Deipyle?
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Tydeus
20
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Who wounded Tydeus?
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Melanippus
21
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Who killed Melannipus?
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Tydeus
22
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Which of the seven against Thebes, the favorite of Athena…
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Tydeus
23
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Who ate the brains…
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Tydeus
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Who would have been made immortal had he not eaten…
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Tydeus
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What son of Tydeus...
Diomedes
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What son of Deipyle...
Diomedes
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Who were the parents of Diomedes?
Tydeus and Deipyle
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Who was ambushed by fifty men and killed them all except for one?
Tydeus
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Which of the fifty men did Tydeus leave alive?
Maeon
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Whose brains...
Melanippus
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Who cursed Eteocles and Polyneices?
Oedipus
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Who bribed Eriphyle?
Polyneices
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What did Polyneices use to bribe Eriphyle?
the necklace of Harmonia
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Whose wife did Polyneices bribe?
Amphiarius's
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Who killed Polyneices?
Eteocles
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Who decreed that Polyneices's body should remain unburied?
Creon
37
Who buried Polyenices?
Antigone
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Who was the son of Polneices?
Thersander
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Who disobeyed Creon...
Antigone
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Who, using harmonia's necklace...
Polyneices
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Who was the leader of the seven against Thebes?
Adrastus
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What son of Talaus and Lysimache...
Adrastus
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Who were the sons of Adrastus?
Aegialeus and Cyanippus
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Who was the father of Aegialeus?
Adrastus
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Who did Adrastus quarrel with which caused him to go to Sicyon?
Amphiaraus
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Who founded the Sicyonian games?
Adrastus
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Who instituted the Neamean games?
Adrastus
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Who was the horse of Adrastus?
Arion
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Who saved Adrastus from dying?
Arion
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What swift horse...
Arion
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Who, the only to survive the attack on...
Adrastus
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Where did Adrastus die?
Megara
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Who did Adrastus promise to help first?
Polyneices
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Who prophesized that the only to survive would be Adrastus?
Amphiarius
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Who was the father of Eteoclus?
Iphis
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What son of Iphis...
Eteoclus
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Who told Polyneices that he should bribe Eriphyle?
Iphis
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What did Iphis advise Polyneices?
to bribe Eriphyle
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What did Eriphyle demand of Amphiarius?
that he must march against thebes
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Who were the sons of Amphiarius?
Alcmaeon and Amphilocus
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What did Amphiarius make his sons promise?
to avenge his death on their mother
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Where did the seven against thebes stop for water?
Nemea
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What son of Lycurgus...
Opheltes
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Who was the father of Opheltes?
Lycurgus
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Who was king of nemea when the seven against thebes were there?
Lycurgus
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What nurse of Opheltes...
Hypsipyle
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What woman, the former queen of Lemnos...
Hypsipyle
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Who laying in a bed of parsley...
Opheltes
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Who laid Opheltes down in a bed of parsley?
Hypsipyle
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Where did Hypsipyle lay Opheltes down?
in a bed of parsley
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Who showed the seven against thebes to a spring?
Hypsipyle
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How did Opheltes die?
a snake killed him
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What name was Opheltes named under?
Archemorous
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What does Archemorous mean?
beginner of doom
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Who won the chariot race at the first neamen games?
Adrastus
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After what games were people crowned with parsley?
nemean games
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What did Amphiarius say Opheltes's death foreshadowed?
their own fate
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Which of the seven against thebes was sent ahead...
Tydeus
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Why was Tydeus sent ahead?
to demand Eteocles surrender
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Who led the fifty men sent to ambush Tydeus?
maeon and polyphontes
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What did Teiresias proclaim about the seven against thebes?
that the city would be saved if Menoceus were to sacrifice himself
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Who willingly sacrificed himself to save Thebes?
menoeceus
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What son of Creon was prophesized...
Menoeceus
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Who declared that Menoeceus would have to sacrifice himself?
Teiresias
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What boastful man scaled the walls of Thebes...
capaneus
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Who shouted from the walls of Thebes that Zeus himself could not stop him from burning the city?
Capaneus
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How did Capaneus die?
Zeus struck him with lightning
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Whose skull was crushed by a stone?
Parthenopaeus
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Who cut off Melanippus's head?
Amphiaraus
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Who handed the head of Melanippus to Tydeus?
Amphiaraus
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Who pursued Amphiaraus?
Periclymenus
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Who was the charioteer of Amphiaraus?
Baton
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Who almost killed Amphiaraus with his spear?
Periclymenus
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How did Amphiaraus die?
Zeus split the earth with a thunderbolt and he was swallowed up
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Who ruled after Eteocles?
Creon
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Who sent an army to Thebes demanding the bodies back?
Theseus
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Where were the dead champions from the seven against thebes buried?
Eleusis
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Who was Capaneus's wife?
Evadne
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Who burned herself on her husband's funeral pyre?
Evadne
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Whose wife burned herself on top of his funeral pyre?
Capaneus's
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Who buried Tydeus at thebes?
Maeon
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What son of Hipponous and Astynome...
Capaneus
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What son of Capaneus and Evadne...
Sthenelus
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Who was the son of Capaneus?
Sthenelus
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What son of Hippomedon...
Polydorus
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What son of Hippomedon and Evanippe...
Polydorus
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Who killed Hippomedon?
Ismarus
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Who were the seven against thebes?
Adrastus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polyneices & Tydeus
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Where were the common soldiers from the seven against thebes expedition buried?
Eleutherae
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Adrastus, Amphiaraus, Capaneus, Hippomedon, Parthenopaeus, Polyneices & Tydeus
Seven against thebes
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What son of Atalanta...
Parthenopaeus
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Who was the bestie of Parthenopaeus?
Telephus
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Who was the bestie of Telephus?
Parthenopaeus
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Who was the son of Parthenopaeus?
Promachus
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Who killed Parthenopaeus?
Periclymenus
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Where did Parthenopaeus accompany Telephus?
Teuthrania
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What man, the descendent of Melampus?
Amphiaraus
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What son of Oicles and Hypermnestra...
Amphiaraus
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Who married Adrastus's sister Eriphyle?
Amphiaraus
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Which of the seven against thebes, the seer....
Amphiaraus
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What woman, betrothed to Haemon...
Antigone
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Who acted as Oedipus's guide until he died at Colonus?
Antigone
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When Creon kidnapped Antigone, who saved her?
Theseus
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How did Antigone die?
buried and killed herself
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How did Haemon die?
he killed himself after finding Antigone's body
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Who killed Eteoclus?
Leades
