Quiz 039

Episode 39 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 39: Medea and the Argonauts. Test how much you can recall about the last two books of the Argonautica by clicking “START” below!

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Jason and the Argonauts was written in the ______ BCE, in the city of _______.

100s; Pergamon

200s; Alexandria, Egypt

100s; Athens, Greece

200s; Mazaka, Cappadocia

300s; Athens, Greece

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At the beginning of Book 3 of the Argonautica, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite all scheme to:

Protect themselves from their diabolical relative Hecate.

Protect Colchis and its treasures from the Argonauts.

Make Medea fall in love with Jason.

Give King Aeëtes a wasting sickness.

Compel the sons of Phrixus to feud with one another.

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After the Argonauts get the Golden Fleece and escape from Colchis, they incur the wrath of Zeus, who spins them off course. Why does Zeus become angry with them?

Because Jason and Medea kill Medea's brother.

Zeus wanted the Golden Fleece to remain in Colchis with King Aeëtes.

The Argonauts, unbeknownst to Jason, did not sacrifice to Zeus upon departure from Colchis.

Zeus and Hera are feuding over a Lemnian girl Zeus has slept with.

Because Medea has used black magic time and time again by this point to help Jason.

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After discovering that their countrywoman Medea has married Jason and has consummated her marriage with him, the Colchians:

Turn tail and hurry home to tell King Aeëtes in Colchis.

Set fire to their fleet and drown rather than reveal their failure to King Aeëtes.

Try to murder Medea but are thwarted by her grandfather Helios.

Prepare for war with the Phaecians, as they have enabled Medea's betrayal.

Decide to ally with the Phaecians and remain in Phaecia.

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The Argonauts are almost hindered by a metal giant on the southern shore of Crete. However, they are able to get by when:

Euphemus strikes the creature with a javelin through a gap in its breastplate.

Idas focuses a lens on the monster, melting it.

Medea rather easily kills the giant.

Minos of Crete tells the guardian monster to stand down.

Asterion trips the giant and it falls into the sea.

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The sons of Phrixus join the Argonauts for many of their adventures. Who was Phrixus?

The engineer who built the Argo.

The son of Nestor.

The demigod son of Zeus and Metis.

An ocean deity and one of Poseidon's chief lieutenants.

The hero who brought the Golden Ram to Colchis.

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While still in Colchis, after giving Jason ointment and advice, Medea sends Jason off to summon the goddess of magic, ghosts, crossroads and necromancy. Medea is the priestess of this goddess. What is this goddess’ name?

Megaera

Euryale

Proserpine

Echidna

Hecate

8 / 10

During the wars of Alexander’s successors, the structure of the polis, or local city state culture, became increasingly surrogate to massive interstate empires. This caused an increasing turn away from local civic institutions and toward family relationships. As we discussed in the episode, what aspect of Jason and the Argonauts seems to bear traces of this cultural move from polis to private household?

The intrigues in the Colchian court.

The complex relationship between Jason and Medea.

The civic relationships Apollonius portrays in Iolcus.

The magic of the witch Circe.

The tightly knit culture of the Phaecians.

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Before Phrixus passed away, what was Medea’s relationship with Phrixus, the hero who found the Golden Ram and brought it to Colchis?

She was his sister-in-law.

She was his wife.

She was his aunt.

She was his queen.

She was his priestess.

10 / 10

King Aeëtes first challenges Jason to:

Navigate a whitewater section of the Kintrishi River.

Cure his daughter Chalciope of madness.

Defeat the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece.

Defeat his son in combat.

Plow a field with fire breathing oxen.

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