Episode 71 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 71: The Gods Depart. See what you remember about Books 7-12 of Statius’ Thebaid by clicking “START” below!

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Toward the epic’s end, two tongues of flame licking upward, as though competing with one another, symbolize the unending rivalry between:

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The son of the huntress Atalanta, this member of the Seven Against Thebes perishes in battle after making a deadly assault against Theban forces with his bow.

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Just as Achilles does in Homer’s Iliad, this character in the Thebaid fights a river.

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Says, “Now a pair / of criminals begins a duel that Earth / in all her miseries has never known. / Let it be distant from divinities.”

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This character, never a very peaceable fellow, eats an enemy’s head in the last moments of his life.

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The son of Creon, this character survives the war of Thebes and its aftermath in Statius’ epic, after which we presume he’ll marry Antigone.

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In the closing lines of the Thebaid, Statius depicts himself as humble and modest alongside:

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Statius himself appears as a character in:

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This deity remonstrates with Jupiter and asks Jupiter to go easy on Thebes.

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This colossal member of the Seven Against Thebes is struck down by Jupiter’s lightning.

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This Athenian king intervenes at the war’s end when he hears that the Thebans are disallowing the burial of the Argive dead.

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The first of the Seven Against Thebes to die, this character is swallowed up by a giant hole in the earth.

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Prompted by the Theban prophet Tiresias, the son of Creon:

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The ancient Greek word for “best” or “best scene,” in epic convention most often describing glory in battle, is:

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Creon is Polynices and Eteocles’:

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