1. The Royal House of Thebes
Greek Mythology
The Royal House of Thebes

2. ________, Cadmus’ sister, was carried away by the bull.
Europa
Harmonia
Agave
Europa

3. Where did Cadmus go to ask Apollo for helping finding out his missing sister?
Thebes
Athens
Delphi
Delphi

4. According to Apollo’s instruction, Cadmus would come upon _______ when he left Delphi.
a heifer

5. According to Apollo’s instruction, where did Cadmus have to build his own city, Thebes?
He had to build his city at a spot where the heifer lay down to rest.

6. What did Cadmus have to do first before he built his city?
He had to fight and kill a dragon which guarded a spring near by and slew all his companions who went to get water.

7. Which goddess appeared to Cadmus when the dragon was dead?
Artemis
Aphrodite
Athena
Athena

8. Athena told Cadmus to sow the earth with _________.
the dragon’s teeth

9. What happened after Cadmus followed Athena’s command to sow the earth?
There were lots of armed men springing up from the furrows.

10. After these armed men sprang from the earth, they began to kill each other. How many people were left at last to help Cadmus build Thebes?
five

11. In Herodotus’ opinion, Cadmus introduced _________ into Greece.
the alphabet

12. _________, Cadmus’ wife, was the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite.
Semele
Harmonia
Jocasta
Harmonia

13. What kind of object did Aphrodite give to Harmonia as a wedding gift?
a wondrous necklace

14. Which one below is the child of Cadmus?
Semele
Antigone
Ismene
Semele

15. Semele was the mother of _________.
the God of Truth
the God of Wine
the God of Eros
the God of Wine (Dionysus)

16. Phrixus, the stepson of _______, was saved from death by the ram of the Golden Fleece.
Ino

17. Why did Agave kill her own son Pentheus?
She was driven mad by Dionysus so that she believed her son was a lion.

18. How did Artemis punish Actaeon who chanced upon her bathing place and offended her divinity?
She changed Actaeon into a stag and made him chased and killed by his own dogs (hounds).

19. Which two people below are Oedipus’s natural parents?
Laius
Polybus
Jocasta
Laius and Jocasta

20. According to Apollo’s oracle, what was Oedipus fated to do?
He was fated to kill his father, marry his mother, and have children men would shudder to look upon.

21. Whom did Oedipus sent for asking the oracle of Apollo?
Creon

22. Apollo claimed that the plague could be stopped upon one condition: ____.
Whoever murdered King Laius
Must be punished.

23. During the reign of King Laius, Thebes was beset by a frightful monster, _________.
the Sphinx

24. What did the Sphinx look like?
The Sphinx looked like a winged lion, but with a woman’s face and breast.

25. Who solved the riddle of the Sphinx and saved the Thebans?
the son of Cadmus
the son of Creon
the son of Laius
the son of Laius

26. What was the riddle Sphinx gave to the passers by?
What creature goes on four feet in the morning, on two at the noonday, on three in the evening?

27. What was the correct answer to the Sphinx’s riddle?
Man

28. What happened to Sphinx after Oedipus solved his riddle?
She killed herself.

29. ________, the old blind prophet, declared that Oedipus was the real murderer of King Laius.
Teiresias

30. According to Jocasta, King Laius was killed by a group of _____.
robbers

31. According to Jocasta, King Laius was killed at the place where _____.
Where three roads meet
on the way to Delphi

32. What happened to Oedipus when he knew he had murdered his father and had married his mother?
He put out his eyes to make himself become blind.

33. When Oedipus was expelled from Thebes, __________ went with him to guide him in his blindness and care for him.
his daughter Antigone
his daughter Ismene
his son Eteocles
his daughter Antigone

34. Teiresias told Creon that Thebes would be saved from Polyneices’ attack if his son Menoeceus __________.
Was killed

35. What command did Creon issue to punish those who invaded his city Thebes?
He proclaimed that none of their bodies could be buried so that their souls would be kept wandering in desolation.

36. Who violated Creon’s command to bury Polyneices?
Ismene
Antigone
Andrastus
Antigone

37. Andrastus entreated ________ to induce the Thebans to allow the bodies of his dead companions to be buried.
the King of Lydia
the King of Argos
the King of Athens
the King of Athens

38. As the funeral took place, what did the wife of Capaneus do out of her love for her husband?
She leaped down to the blazing pyre
and went with her husband to the world below.

39. The sons of the seven dead champions later took revenge on Thebes for their fathers. They were always called _______, “the After-Born,” as if they had come into the world too late.
the Epigoni