Week 12

Question 1

12. cerebus

Answer 1

most explicit conquest of death, heracles asks hades and persephone who agree as long as he doesnt use weapons, wrestles cerebus, brings to eurytheus and then returns to hades

Question 2

ghost of meleager

Answer 2

only ghost that doesnt flee from heracles (past hero), who offers him his sister deianira

Question 3

heracles and achelous

Answer 3

wrestels deianira suitor river god achelous, breaks off one of horns but gives it back to him, rewarded with the horn of amalthea (food horn)

Question 4

heracles and nessus

Answer 4

they go home to tiryns, but have to cross a river, centaur nessus offers to carry her, he tries to rape her, heracles shoots with arrow and tells deianira to gather his poison blood

Question 5

heracles and iole

Answer 5

falls in love, wants to marry so wins an archery competition, father eurytus says no

Question 6

heracles and iole brother

Answer 6

takes iole to a little citadel and kills her brother who comes looking for his horses in madness

Question 7

heracles atonement

Answer 7

goes to oracle at delphi, she is silent, he tries to steal the tripod, apollo comes and they wrestle, broken up by lightning from zeus

Question 8

heracles punishment

Answer 8

sold to queen omphale of lydia for a year, her lover and humiliating tasks

Question 9

deianira’s reaction

Answer 9

told by herald lichas, heracles requested a new marriage robe, she soaks it in nessus poison, mortal part of him dies and deianira kills herself

Question 10

apotheosis

Answer 10

the process of becoming a god

Question 11

god heracles marries

Answer 11

hebe

Question 12

heraclidae

Answer 12

mother and children persecuted by eurytheseus, athenians defeat him, macaria voluntarily sacrifices herself

Question 13

return of heracleidae

Answer 13

oracle says after 3 generations they can go back and reclaim peleponese (explains occupation of dorian tribes)

Question 14

minyae

Answer 14

crew of the argo, leading heroes before the trojan war

Question 15

iolcus

Answer 15

jason’s birthplace and location of main part of the saga

Question 16

what the argo means to homer

Answer 16

“all men’s concerns”

Question 17

aea and aeetes

Answer 17

land / man of the land (folktale elements, personification of the land)

Question 18

king athamas and wife 1

Answer 18

king athamas (unlucky), takes cloud nymph nephele for his wife, 2 kids, phricus and helle, she returns to the sky and leaves children

Question 19

king athamas wife 2

Answer 19

ino, daughter of cadmus of thebes, 2 sons, very jealous of phricus

Question 20

ino’s plot

Answer 20

gets women to plant dead sea grain so there is no harvest, they ask oracle, ino bribes for false report to sacrafice first born

Question 21

golden ram appearance

Answer 21

upset athamas takes phricus onto mountain, golden ram appears, sent by nephele with helle on it, helle falls off above dardanelles (hellespont straights)

Question 22

phricus at colchis

Answer 22

welcomed to colchus by aeetes, gives aeetes golden fleece, hung and guarded in a tree

Question 23

athamas brother

Answer 23

cretheus, king of iolcus, after his death his stepson pelias deposes rightful heir aeson, (jason’s dad)

Question 24

pelias oracle

Answer 24

“beware of the man with one sandal”

Question 25

jason stream

Answer 25

jason heads back to iolcus, on the way helps an old lady cross a stream (hera), becomes her favorite and loses a sandal

Question 26

jason teacher

Answer 26

chiron (stillborn rumor)

Question 27

building of the argo

Answer 27

argus, son of phrixus, magic prow with power of speech as athena's gift

Question 28

jason challenge pelias

Answer 28

pelias promises to yield throne after jason brings him golden fleece

Question 29

orpheus and heracles

Answer 29

not originally in story, but prominent in story

Question 30

character of those on the argo

Answer 30

all great men, some have gifts, some stand out

Question 31

voyage to colchis: island of lemnos

Answer 31

isle of sex starved women, punsihment from aphrodite due to lack of worship, had them kill all their husbands (thoas survived), queen hypsipyle says the argonauts should stay for a year, they have lots of kids, before remebering their purpose

Question 32

voyage to colchis: cyzicus and cios

Answer 32

welcomed by king cyzicus, they leave but at next habour they are pushed back, battle which cyzicus is accidentaly killed, bury him and leave. heracles breaks an oar boasting, they pull ashore at cios, hylas taken by water nymphs, heracles leaves expedition

Question 33

amycus

Answer 33

polydeuces kills ugly giant in boxing match

Question 34

voyage to colchis: symplegades / euxine sea

Answer 34

only way to escape clashing rocks is if dove makes it through, dove loses a tail feather, ship loses ornament, symplegades remain fixed after euxine sea = more deaths, take sons of phrixus aboard

Question 35

phineus and the harpies

Answer 35

zetes and calais drive away harpies (the snatchers) in exchange for info from blind prophet (punished by apollo for abusing gift of prophecy) warns about symplegades

Question 36

jason at colchis

Answer 36

cruel aeetes will only let jason take the fleece if he performs impossible tasks, oracle says foreigner is supposed to be his undoing

Question 37

aeetes tasks

Answer 37

yoke the fire breathing bulls, sew dragon's teeth/ fight subsequent army

Question 38

medea

Answer 38

aeetes daughter, priestess of hecate and niece of circe falls in love with jason (eros) and give him a magic ointment / drugs the serpent

Question 39

euripides medea

Answer 39

medea kills the dragon

Question 40

jason and medea flee

Answer 40

sets sail with fleece, pursued by colchians under medeas brother apsyrtus, who medea tricks and jason kills in ambush

Question 41

ovid's jason

Answer 41

a heroic figure

Question 42

pindar's return narrative

Answer 42

brief clean journey back

Question 43

apollonius of rhodes return narrative

Answer 43

1. circe purifies jason and medea 2. same dangers as odysseus 3. jason and medea married among phaeacians

Question 44

pelias in argo's absence

Answer 44

thinks the argo has sunk, kills all of jason's family, super surprised by jason return, does not honour his pact

Question 45

medea's pelias plot

Answer 45

rejuvenates jason's father and a ram to show him, daughters see this and brings pelias, she kills him instead

Question 46

pelias death aftermath

Answer 46

murder enrages iolcus, jason and medea driven to corinth

Question 47

jason and medea in corinth eumelos

Answer 47

medea becomes queen of corinth, respects hera, kids die

Question 48

jason and medea in corinth (euripides)

Answer 48

jason divorces medea to marry glauce (cresua), medea posions wedding gift of robe, which kills glaucea and father, medea kills her children and flees to athens

Question 49

jason death

Answer 49

jason never recovers from children death, old and depressed, killed by rotted away prow of argo