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Week 6 Flashcards

1
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Rolls boulder up hill

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Sisyphus

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1
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Spinning wheel of fire

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Ixion

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2
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Bird eats liver daily

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Tityus

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3
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Eternal hunger and thirst

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Tantalus

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4
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49 sisters carry water in leaky buckets

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Danaids

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5
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Chairs of forgetfulness

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Heracles and Peirithous

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6
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King of Sparta, husband of Helen

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Menelaus

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7
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King of Mycenae/king of the Greeks; Husband of Clytemnestra

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Agamemnon

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8
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Best fighter of Greeks; son of Pelias and Thetis

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Achilles

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9
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2nd greatest fighter of the Greeks, vied with Odysseus for Achilles’ armor (lost)

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Ajax the Greater

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9
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Thought of the wooden horse; King of Ithaca, took 10 years to return home from Trojan War

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Odysseus

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10
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King of Troy; name means ransomed one

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Priam

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11
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Priam’s original name

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Podarces

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12
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Wife of Priam; mother of Hector, Priam, Cassandra, Helenus and others

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Hecuba

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13
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Best fighter of Trojans, killed by Achilles

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Hector

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14
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Son of Priam, steals Helen, killed Achilles with an arrow (with help of Apollo)

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Paris

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15
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Changes men to animals

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Circe (Aeaea)

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16
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Detains Odysseus for 7 years

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Calypso (Ogygia)

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17
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Loyal Swineherd

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Eumaeus

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18
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Loyal Cowherd

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Philoetius

19
Q

Unfaithful Goatherd

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Melanthius

20
Q

King and Queen of Scheria who host Odysseus

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Alcinous and Arete

21
Q

Dog who dies upon finally seeing his master return

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Argus

22
Q

Nurse who recognizes Odysseus by the scar on his leg

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Eurycleia

23
Q

Most Incolent

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Antinous

24
Q

Most Favored

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Eurymachus

25
Q

Faithful wife of Odysseus, weaves and unweaves a shroud daily to delay

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Penelope

26
Q

Son of Odysseus who goes looking for his father

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Telemachus

27
Q

What ithacan swineherd remained faithful to Odysseus?

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Eumaeus

28
Q

What son of Ctesius served as Odysseus’ loyal swineherd?

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Eumaeus

29
Q

What island did Odysseus call home for 7 years while under the charms of Calypso?

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Ogygia

30
Q

Agenor, Leodes, Amphimedon, Eurymachus, and Antinous were all suitors of what Ithacan queen?

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Penelope

31
Q

Who slaughtered several sheep which he thought were the Greek chieftains and killed himself in shame after losing the contest for Achilles’ armor?

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Ajax the Greater

32
Q

Who acquired a bag full of winds, which he was advised not to open until he saw the Ithaca?

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Odysseus

33
Q

Who provoked the jealous rage of three goddesses when she threw an apple labeled for the most beautiful?

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Eris

34
Q

“Who prayed to his father that ““nobody”” be punished for blinding his only eye with a wooden stake?”

A

Polyphemus

34
Q

Who was shocked when Calypso urged him to build a raft, after remaining captive to her spells for seven years?

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Odysseus

35
Q

Who was tied to the mast of his ship as he sailed past the Sirens so that he could hear their song?

A

Odysseus

36
Q

Who unwove by night the shroud which she spun during the day in order to delay her marriage to a suitor?

A

Penelope

37
Q

What king was ransomed as a child from Heracles by his sister, fathered numerous children, and died at the hands of a Greek warrior as Troy was falling?

A

Podarces

38
Q

Who encountered the Cicones, the Lotophagi, the Phaeaecians and several others during his voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War?

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Odysseus

38
Q

What concept, brought to life by Epeius, was originally envisioned by Odysseus and gave the Greeks a way to infiltrate the city of Troy?

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Trojan Horse

39
Q

Which of the sinners of Tartarus, because he was the first mortal to murder a relative, spends his time getting dizzy on a wheel of fire?

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Ixion

40
Q

What son of Laius and Jocasta inadvertently killed his father at a crossroads and married his mother?

A

Oedipus

41
Q

Which of the sinners of Tartarus, because he fed the flesh of his own son to the gods, spends his time trying to get food and water for himself?

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Tantalus

42
Q

Because of his crimes such as handcuffing Hades, what mortal was forever forced to roll a boulder up a hill in the underworld?

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Sisyphus

43
Q

What giant is eternally punished in the Underworld by having his body streched to cover nine acres while two vultures ate his heart?

A

Tityus

44
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Who in the Underworld was condemned to carry water in jars which leaked like sieves?

A

Danaids

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