Lots of questions about greek mythology; please help!?

Question

I have a lot of questions that are on my study guide for school.

1. Who was the author of Antigone?
2. What action of Zeus is also attributed to God in the Bible?
3. Hercules was the son of Zeus. He killed ___ but was saved from suicide by ___.
4. On which side of the Trojan War did Odysseus,Achilles,Menolaus,Agamemnon,Hector,Ajax, and Aeneas?
5. Where was Odysseus going when he had the adventures described in The Odyssey? Why were so many men at his house? How did he get rid of them?

okay, i seriously need help.
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Answer 1

1. Sophocles.

2. This one is not a reference to Ancient Greek mythology but a comparison between the God of the Bible to Zeus.

(Personal opinion). The God of the Old Testament resembles a great deal to Zeus as in : He is revengeful but fair, appears when necessary in a divine form or sometimes indirectly butt he is always there to protect and to serve.

3. Hercules killed his wife Megara and his three children, under influence by Hera (Zeus's wife). He cleansed his soul by serving under King Euristhenes for 12 years (that was the order given to Hercules by the Delphi Oracle priestess).

4. The Greeks

5. He was heading back to his kingdom, the island of Ithaki.

The men back in his palace were his rivals for the throne of Ithaki. Since he was gone for 20 years (10 years on the Trojan War and 10 years on the sea) his queen and wife Penelope, had to remarry but she was delaying it always believing Odysseus would return one day.



Odysseas, originaly hiding as a beggar, seeked shelter at the palace, the very night that Penelope had stopped hoping he would return.

Penelope challenged the "mnistires" to shoot an arrow with Odysseas's arch, something that only one person could even bend (Odysseas him self).

With the help of his son Telemahos and his faithful servant Evmaios, they killed all 40 of the "mnistires" during the challenge and he got his kingdom back and his wife Penelope.



Okay... this is a synopsis. If you can read Greek, here is a good link for Odysseas's final battle.



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Hercules' last stunt was killing centaur Nessus (Nessus attempted to steal away from Hercules, his wife Dianera).

While on his last breath, Nessus told Dianera that Hercules did not love her anymore and that if she wanted him to love her again, she needed to dump in his blood a chiton (a toga like cloth, but that was not truth, it was a lie fron Nessus, to revenge Hercules).

She did so, but that was the last trick of Nessus. His blood was poisoned from Hercules's arrows and that alone drove Hercules insane that made him climb mount Oeti and start a fire. And he threw him self in the fire.

Upon his death, Zeus took him in mount Olympus and arranged that Hercules wedded the godess of Youth, Ivi.

Answer 2

Ok, let's get started *cracks fingers*



1. Sophocles.



2. Ah, that's a question I like. It's actually the big cataclysm. This phenomenon is mentioned in TOO many ancient scriptures to be a coincidence. Zeus flooded the earth to cleanse humankind. Only Hellenas (I think he was a son of Zeus) and his wife survived on a boat. When they stepped on dry land again, Zeus instructed them to pick up stones and cast them behind their backs. The ones that the man threw transformed into men, and his wife into women. That's how the Greek nation was created.



3. I know Hera made him go mad and he killed his wife Megara and his children. Maybe a good friend of his too, but I'm not sure. When he got well, he was stricken and attempted suicide. Then, some god came (Hermes?) and stopped him and told him to go to the Oracle at Delphi to learn how to atone for his crime. The Oracle told him to serve king Eurystheas, who, under Hera's advice, assigned him his tasks.



4. Hec? Do you mean Hector? He was Trojan I think. And I dunno about Aeneas, but all the others were Greeks.



5. The poor guy only wanted to go home to Ithaca after 10 years in the aforementioned war. Then all those gods got in his way and he ended up wandering the seas for another 10 years... Now, back home, since no one had heard any news of Odysseus for over 10 years, the beautiful queen was presumed a widow. And when she told the many suitors to kindly buzz off, they decided that she'd change her mind and so set camp in the palace, mooching off the king's fortune, eating and drinking all day. So, poor Odysseus returns home just to find his son all but expelled from the palace, and his wife surrounded by leeches. So he goes undercover. He enters the palace as a beggar and arranges with his son to hide every weapon in the palace and arrange a "tournament" where the suitor who managed to use his bow and shoot would get the queen. No one manages to pull the string, suddenly a beggar pops and asks to try, shoots easily, then says he's the king and starts shooting arrows through necks and stuff.



Extra question:

In Hercules' wedding with his second wife, Dianera, the centaur Nessus saw her, liked her, so he stole her. Hercules chased him and shot him with his poisonous arrows (from the Hydra's poison). While dying, Nessus lied to Dianera that his blood was magic and it would make Hercules love her if she spread it on his clothes. After some time Hercules started "seeing" a princess named Iole, and then Dianera remembered the bottle of blood she had kept. She gave him to wear a red "chiton" to make some sacrifices to Zeus one day, and she had put the blood on it. After a while, the poisoned blood took effect and the cloth started sticking on him, causing severe pain. When he tried to take it off it was taking pieces of his skin off too. So in order to free himself from the pain he threw himself in the fire. Later on, he became one of the gods in Olympus.

Answer 3

1. Sophocles

2.

3. He was driven mad by Hera and killed his children. For the second part, I'm just guessing, but it might be Cheiron.

4. Against Troy, with the Greeks. Odysseus thought up the Trojan Horse.

5. He was going home to Ithaca from the Trojan War. The men in his house were suitors of Penelope, his wife, who wanted to marry her and rule Ithaca. He got rid of them by disguising himself as a beggar, sneaking in, and killing them all.



Have you tried reading anything about the myths/epics? You don't have to read the real things (although, with the myths at least, it's fun), but it's not hard at all to find info on them.

Answer 4

1. Antigone the greek tradegy was written by Sophocles.

2. no idea

4. greeks

5. Odysseus was trying to get home to his wife in Ithaca

the men were at his house to try to get Peneolope his wife to marry them. Penelope decided that whoever could string Odysseus's bow and shoot an arrow would be the winner. Odysseus won it. then killed the rest.

Answer 5

I only know the answer to the Hercules question, he killed his wife.

Answer 6

Hercules killed his wife but he was under a spell.