Test 4, part 4
Who was born to avenge the eaten brothers?
Aegisthus
Who wrote the "Oresteia"?
Aeschylus
Who was chosen to lead the Greek forces against Troy?
Agamemnon
Who demanded sacrifice of Iphigenia?
Artemis
Who is who to Pelops? Sons
Atreus and Thyestes
Identify the places where Iphigenia...was sacrificed
Aulis
Identify the places where Iphigenia...Returned and settled
Brauron
Atreus and Thyestes are:
Brothers
Pelops won his wife by:
Chariot race
Which character of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" provides an analogy to Aegisthus?
Claudius
Who is who to Orestes? Hermione
Double cousin and wife from sparta
The relationships between Atreus and Thyestes most closely resemble that of:
Eteocles and Polynices
Who is who to Orestes? Pylades
Faithful friend, companion of travails
Who is who to Orestes? Agamemnon
Father he avenged
Who is who to Pelops? wife
Hippodameia
The sons of Atreus were married to the daughters of:
Leda
Identify the places where Iphigenia...was born
Mycenae
Who is who to Pelops? An accomplice, the cheated charioteer whom Pelops had murdered and whose curse Pelops' posterity had to bear
Myrtilus
Who is who to Pelops? Father-in-law whom he had murdered in an arranged accident
Oenomaus
Who is who to Orestes? Erinyes
Pursuing Furies
Who is who to Orestes? Iphigenia
Sacerdotal sister, found in a distant barbaric land
Who is who to Orestes? Electra
Sister, accomplice in matricide
Who is who to Agamemnon? Helen
Sister-in-law
Who is who to Agamemnon? Orestes
Son--avenger
Who is who to Pelops? Father who cooked him for the gods' dinner
Tantalus
Identify the places where Iphigenia...was miraculously transported
Tauris
Who is who to Orestes? Apollo
The god who ordained his mission
Who is who to Orestes? Athena
The goddess who saved him with a trial
Atreus and Thyestes quarreled about
The throne of mycenae, the wife
Atreus fed to Thyestes:
Thyestes' own little sons
Elopement of Helen was the reason for:
Trojan War
What was Clytemnestra's main motive for killing her husband?
Vengeance for the daughter
Who is who to Agamemnon? Clytemnestra
Wife and murderess
Who is who to Agamemnon? Menelaus
brother
Who is who to Agamemnon? Iphigenia
daughter
Who is who to Orestes?Clytemnestra
mother he murdered
