Sorceress who kills her children to get back at her husband.
Medea
100
Polis
City-state
100
Gilgamesh's mother
Ninsun
100
What did Greek actors wear on stage?
Masks
100
How many sons did Noah have?
Three
200
In Antigone, who does the Chorus consist of?
Theban elders
200
Homosocial bond
Strong friendship (like brothers) primarily between men.
200
Uses his golden scales to decide who, between Achilles and Hector, will live and who will die
Zeus
200
What happens when Gilgamesh first meets Enkidu?
The two men fight.
200
Who pulls Achilles' hair when he reaches for his sword to kill Agamemnon.
Athena
300
In Lysistrata, what is the name of the nude character, who represents a map of Greece and the epitome of sexual attractiveness, in a final attempt to initiate a peace agreement between the warring cities?
Reconciliation
300
in medias res
into the middle of things
300
Pretends to be the Taphian captain, Mentes, when visiting Telemachus
Athena
300
In which city is Medea based?
Corinth
300
The Greek alphabet is adapted from the consonantal writing developed by which ancient people?
Phoenicians
400
Who tames Enkidu? (Name)
Shamhat, the temple prostitute
400
Cosmogenies
Stories about how the world began.
400
Whose chariot did Medea use to escape at the end of the Greek tragedy Medea?
Helios
400
The play Medea opens with...
The nurse's lament
400
What kills Creon and Glauce
Poison
500
The most arrogant of Penelope’s suitors. The first to be killed when Odysseus returns.
Antinous
500
Genesis
Origin, birth
500
Floods the earth to rid it of evil.
The Hebrew God
500
What do Glaucus and Diomedes exchange and why?
They exchange armor as a sign of friendship. They decide they are friends because Diomedes' grandfather and Glaucus' father were friends.
500
What sentiment is expressed in Medea's first words of the play.
She says she wants to die
"Oh, horrible, horrible, all that I suffer, my unhappy struggles, I wish I could die.