For people who really, really know mythology.?

Question

1.What did Tantalus do to win the enmity of the gods for himself and his posterity?

2. How is Tantalus punished?

3. Who is Niobe? What god or goddess does she offend? what is he offence?

4. How is Niobe punished? What is her fate?

5.Who is Cadmus?

6. Who helps Cadmus build the city of Thebes?

7. Who are Cadmus' wife and children?

8. What becomes of Cadmus children (semele, ino, agave, and autonoe)

9. What happens to autonoe's son actaeon?

10. Where is Oedipus born?

11. Where does he grow up? (Oedipus)

12. What prophecy is told to his parents shortly after he is born?

13. What is the sphinx

14. What riddle does Oedipus solve?

15. What happens to Oedipus' children (Antigone, Ismene, Eteokles, and Polyneices)?

16. What horrible sin does Oedipus commit?

17. How does Oedipus decide to punish himself for his sin?

18. Who is Teiresias?

19. What is the moral that Edith Hamilton points out of the story of Cadmus, Harmonia, and Oedipus?

If you can answer all of them I'll give you the highest points you can get.

Answer 1

too lazy to do your homework huh?

Answer 2

Get off your cheap butt,spring for a copy of Hamilton, and read it for yourself. Then maybe you'll really learn something.

Answer 3

look it up in your text book....there's a thing in the back called an index....it's really cool check into it....

Answer 4

Yes, indexes are shiny. And you can't offer any one "the highest points you can get." Offering more than 10 points is against Yahoo rules and guidelines. Another myth debunked, eh?

Answer 5

www.wikipedia.com ... it's all there!