Deck 16: Theseus and the Myths of Athens

Question 1

In particular, many additions made to the legends of Theseus were made in the _______ in Athens.

A) second century AD
B) sixth and fifth centuries BC
C) first centuries BC and AD
D) ninth century BC

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In the iconography of Greek myth, snakes often symbolized which two things?

A) Origin from the earth
B) Impending war
C) Drought
D) The phallus

Answer 2

A,D

Question 3

Which of the following are the daughters of Cecrops?

A) Aglaurus
B) Philomela
C) Hersê
D) Pandrosus

Answer 3

A,C,D

Question 4

Whom did Pandion (the first) summon to Athens for assistance in Athens' war with Thebes, and then reward with marriage to his daughter Procnê?

A) Phaëthon
B) Erysichthon
C) Tereusx
D) Boreas

Question 5

How does Tereus ensure Procnê's silence after he rapes her?

A) He cuts out her tongue
B) He buries her alive
C) He gives her to pirates
D) He sends her off with a delegation of Amazons

Question 6

Aegeus went to the Delphic Oracle to learn _______.

A) whether he should marry Medea
B) how he could beget an heir
C) why Athens was suffering from drought
D) who had tried to kill him during a religious festival

Question 7

What two tokens does Aegeus leave with Aethra?

A) A cloak
B) A pair of sandals
C) A sword
D) A ring

Question 8

Sciron killed his victims by making them _______.

A) drink his poisoned wine
B) wrestle him
C) wash his feet
D) fit, one way or another, on one of his two beds

Question 9

How did Medea plan to kill Theseus?

A) Bribing Theseus' servant to kill him in his sleep
B) A magic spell
C) Ambush
D) Poison

Question 10

Which of the following are among Theseus' achievements when he was king of Athens?

A) He began work on the Parthenon, on the Acropolis
B) He created a synoecism of the demes of Atticax
C) He instituted the Panathenaic festival
D) He founded the popular assembly

Question 11

Which of the following are features of the Amazons?

A) They were said to cut off the right breasts of young girls
B) They lived somewhere in a hidden forest in the Peloponnesus
C) They followed Artemis
D) They tolerated men only as slaves

Question 12

Who are the parents of Hippolytus?

A) Aegeus and Medea
B) Aegeus and Aphrodite
C) Theseus and Phaedra
D) Theseus and Antiope

Question 13

What is Phaedra's secret?

A) She is passionately in love with Hippolytus
B) She is pregnant with Hippolytus' child
C) She is a sworn ally of Medea
D) She is a sea-goddess disguised as a mortal

Question 14

How does Hippolytus die?

A) Theseus slays him in a trial by combat
B) He is shut inside a tomb and starves to death
C) He is dragged to death by his own horses
D) He is killed by the Bull of Marathon

Question 15

With Yahweh's help, _______ survives the scheming of Potiphar's wife.

A) Abraham
B) Isaac
C) Jacob
D) Joseph

Question 16

_______ is instrumental in Bellerophon's victory over the Chimera, and also figures in his death.

A) Theseus
B) Pegasus
C) Chiron the Centaur
D) Medusa

Question 17

Theseus and Pirithoüs became friends when _______.

A) Pirithoüs came to Athens looking for purification
B) Pirithoüs saved Theseus' life in Thebes
C) they fought the Centaurs together
D) Theseus caught Pirithoüs raiding his cattle

Question 18

In Greek art, which of the following came to symbolize the struggle between civilization and barbarism?

A) Bellerophon
B) Theseus' last stand on Scyros
C) The Centauromachy
D) The Amazonomachy

Question 19

Who rescues Theseus from the Underworld?

A) Aeneas
B) Odysseus
C) Heracles
D) Oedipus

Question 20

The popularization of the legends of Theseus in Athens took place under which of the following Athenian politicians?

A) Pisistratus
B) Solon
C) Clisthenes
D) Cimon

Question 21

Theseus is shown here defeating which of the six infamous bandits and killers who plagued the road from Troezen to Athens?

A) Sciron
B) Sinis
C) Procrustes
D) Periphetes