Quiz 040

Episode 40 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 40: Hellenism and the Birth of the Self. See what you can recall about the Hellenistic period and its religious evolutions by clicking “START” below!

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

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.

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

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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?

Hecate

Euryale

Proserpine

Megaera

Echidna

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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:

Asterion trips the giant and it falls into the sea.

Medea rather easily kills the giant.

Minos of Crete tells the guardian monster to stand down.

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

Idas focuses a lens on the monster, melting it.

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

Make Medea fall in love with Jason.

Compel the sons of Phrixus to feud with one another.

Protect Colchis and its treasures from the Argonauts.

Give King Aeëtes a wasting sickness.

Protect themselves from their diabolical relative Hecate.

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King Aeëtes first challenges Jason to:

Defeat his son in combat.

Plow a field with fire breathing oxen.

Defeat the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece.

Cure his daughter Chalciope of madness.

Navigate a whitewater section of the Kintrishi River.

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

100s; Pergamon

100s; Athens, Greece

200s; Mazaka, Cappadocia

200s; Alexandria, Egypt

300s; Athens, Greece

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

The hero who brought the Golden Ram to Colchis.

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

The engineer who built the Argo.

The demigod son of Zeus and Metis.

The son of Nestor.

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

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

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

Decide to ally with the Phaecians and remain in Phaecia.

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

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

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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 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.

The intrigues in the Colchian court.

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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 queen.

She was his aunt.

She was his priestess.

She was his wife.

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