CLA 210-NCSU EXAM HEINEN QUESTIONS
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Pirithous - ANSWER -son of Ixion
-King of Lapiths
-Theseus almost killed him but they become friends like Gilgamesh and
Enkidu
-Maried Hippodamia and invited Centaurs to wedding
-Centaruomachy
These...
Pirithous - ANSWER ✔ -son of Ixion
-King of Lapiths
-Theseus almost killed him but they become friends like Gilgamesh and
Enkidu
-Maried Hippodamia and invited Centaurs to wedding
-Centaruomachy
Theseus & Pirithous Wives - ANSWER ✔ -looked for new wives
together when their wives died
-Helen for Theseus (too young for intercourse)
-Pirithous wanted to Persephone (wife of Hades) and they were bound to
chairs until Heracles saved them
-Theseus returned to upper world in which Athens was in turmoil
-Theseus took Helen and his mom (aethra) to Scyros for hospitality
-He is then pushed off cliff by local king (carless/shameful death)
Pisistratus - ANSWER ✔ -famous leader of Athens who sponsored the
Thesis (legend of Theseus)
-Theseus invented coinage
,Myths of Crete - ANSWER ✔ -Handed down through the Athenians.
- Most of our sources are Roman, who were interested in strange or
rhetorical aspects of the stories.
Europa and the Bull - ANSWER ✔ -Zeus takes the shape of a bull and
abducts Europa.
-The King sends Europa's three brothers to look for her, but they don't.
-Zeus and Europa have a number of kids including: Minos, Sarpedon,
and Rhadamanthys.
Minos and Pasiphae - ANSWER ✔ -Minos drives out brothers when
they all fall in love with same girl. He becomes King and marries
Pasipiphae.
-Confirms his identity by asking Poseidon for bull to rise out of the
ocean.
-He refuses to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon, so Poseidon makes
Pasiphae fall in love with the bull.
Pasiphae's fate - ANSWER ✔ -Daedlus, an exile from Athens, helps
her create a wooden cow.
-The bull impregnates her, and she gives birth to the Minotaur.
-Minos order Daedlus to build the Labyrinth to hold the Minotaur.
Androgeus - ANSWER ✔ -defeats everyone in the panathenaic game
, Theseus and the Bull - ANSWER ✔ - Ariadne, Minos' daughter, fell in
love with him as the ship apporached.
-Adriane tells him to take a ball of yarn into the Labyrinth.
-Theseus kills the Minotaur, escapes with Ariadne, but abandons her on
Naxos.
Daedalus - ANSWER ✔ -The one responsible for minotaur.
-Minos imprisoned him in labyrinth as punishment.
Jason - ANSWER ✔ -Salmoneus, a brother of Athamas, has a daughter
Tyro.
-Poseidon impregnate Tyro, has twins, Pelias and Neleus.
-Pelias is arrogant and wants to rule Thessaly.
-Aeson, (a half brother and rightful heir) is imprisoned. He has a child,
but says it was a stillborn and sends him off to be tutored by Chiron.
-Chiron named the boy Jason and taught him arts and fighting.
Jason's oracle - ANSWER ✔ A man with one sandal will be downfall
of Pelias.
Jason's first return home - ANSWER ✔ Jason's returns to Colchis and
helps an old lady cross a stream on the way. The old lady was Hera, who
want to destroy Pelias by bringing Medea.
, Jason and the Argonauts - ANSWER ✔ -Argus builds a huge ship.
-Jason invites all the great men to join.
-Idmon predicts everyone will return safely but Jason.
-Jason sleeps with Hypsipyle and later has two sons.
Heracles remains on board with Hylas and shames Agronauts.
Madea - ANSWER ✔ -Sees Jason when he arrives, and Aphrodite
causes her to fall in love.
-Oracle: A foreigner would bring an end to Aeetes.
=Guards the fleece with a never sleeping dragon.
Aeetes - ANSWER ✔ -Tells Jason he can have the fleece once he
yokes some fire breathing cows.
- Medea gives him a fire proof ointment if he will marry her and take her
away.
-Jason yokes the cows. Confused earth-men by throwing a big boulder.
King Aeetes plans to attack Jason - ANSWER ✔ but Medea leads him
to fleece and puts the dragon to sleep.
-Jason and Agronautes fle on the Ister River.
-Medea's brother pursues them but they kill him.
-Another group from Colchis apporaches them, but a king will protect
them if they are married.
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