CLA 210 EXAM SCRIPT 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Phineas and Harpies (from Argos) - ✔✔arrive in Bosporus and find King Phineus
had been punished by Zeus for speaking too boldly (now old, blind, and cannot eat bc
the harpies steal his food)
Phineus promises to tell the truth of their trip if they kill the harpies; so they do
They learn of the Symplegades (Clashing Rocks); use a dove to see if they make it, if
the dove loses a tail feather, they'll die
Manage to make it thru
✔✔Meleager (from argos) - ✔✔3 fates stated that "when the log is consumed, the child
will die";
Artemis sends in a giant boar bc she's been offended, Atalanta joins the hunt and
together she and Meleager kill it;
Meleager gives her to the hide, to the annoyance of his uncle; Meleager kills his uncle
so his mother throws his log into the fire and Meleager dies
✔✔Atalanta - ✔✔refuses to marry, has races with men where she murders them;
Hippomenes is given 3 apples which he uses to distract Atalanta and wins;
when he defeats her, they fall madly in love and have sex in Zeus' temple;
Z appears and turns them into lions
✔✔Medea and Golden Fleece - ✔✔when Medea sees Jason, Aphro causes her to fall
in love
Oracle: foreigner would bring end to Aeetes;
so Aeetes gives the foreigner an impossible task and guards his fleece with a never-
sleeping dragon
Medea helps him destroy the dragon and helps steal the fleece.
Jason and Argonauts flee after him or Medea kill her brother.
✔✔Return to Colchis (argos) - ✔✔Pelias forces Jason's parents into suicide and won't
get the throne to Jason
Medea tricks daughters of Pelias into cutting him into little tiny pieces
, Jason and Medea move to Corinth; Jason decides he wants to marry Glauce, daughter
of Creon;
Medea kills her and Jason's 2 sons
Jason dies old, sick, and alone when prow of ship falls on him and kills him
✔✔What happens to Medea at the end? - ✔✔either experiences apotheosis and
serpents take her to heaven or she goes somewhere else and marries a king to
eventually meet Theseus
✔✔Theban Cycle - ✔✔2 separate foundation stories
Cadmus founds idea of Thebes, Aethon and Zethus found concrete form
✔✔The First Founding of Thebes - ✔✔Cadmus searched the longest for his sister
Europa
Finally met an oracle that told him to follow a cow and wait until it laid down and start a
city there. Follows a cow and it sits there.
He then plants the dragon teeth in the ground at Athena's suggestion; teeth grow into
warriors Sparti (sown man).
One of C's sons, Nycteus, marries Antiope, who is later seduced by Z.
✔✔Second Founding of Thebes - ✔✔One of C's sons, Nycteus, marries Antiope, who is
later seduced by Z
Antiope is driven from Nycteus (bc he's embarrassed by her pregnancy) and moves to
land Sicyon and marries a king
Antiope is retrieved by Nycteus and gives birth to twins (Amphion and Zethus) on way
back;
she leaves children in meadow
Antiope is tortured by king's wife until she is rescued by her children
Zethus marries Thebe
Amphion marries Niobe
✔✔Why was Liaus (Oedipu's father) cursed? - ✔✔cursed by Pelops for raping his son;
Laius married Jocasta and Oracle foretold that Laius would die at the hand of his own
child
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Phineas and Harpies (from Argos) - ✔✔arrive in Bosporus and find King Phineus
had been punished by Zeus for speaking too boldly (now old, blind, and cannot eat bc
the harpies steal his food)
Phineus promises to tell the truth of their trip if they kill the harpies; so they do
They learn of the Symplegades (Clashing Rocks); use a dove to see if they make it, if
the dove loses a tail feather, they'll die
Manage to make it thru
✔✔Meleager (from argos) - ✔✔3 fates stated that "when the log is consumed, the child
will die";
Artemis sends in a giant boar bc she's been offended, Atalanta joins the hunt and
together she and Meleager kill it;
Meleager gives her to the hide, to the annoyance of his uncle; Meleager kills his uncle
so his mother throws his log into the fire and Meleager dies
✔✔Atalanta - ✔✔refuses to marry, has races with men where she murders them;
Hippomenes is given 3 apples which he uses to distract Atalanta and wins;
when he defeats her, they fall madly in love and have sex in Zeus' temple;
Z appears and turns them into lions
✔✔Medea and Golden Fleece - ✔✔when Medea sees Jason, Aphro causes her to fall
in love
Oracle: foreigner would bring end to Aeetes;
so Aeetes gives the foreigner an impossible task and guards his fleece with a never-
sleeping dragon
Medea helps him destroy the dragon and helps steal the fleece.
Jason and Argonauts flee after him or Medea kill her brother.
✔✔Return to Colchis (argos) - ✔✔Pelias forces Jason's parents into suicide and won't
get the throne to Jason
Medea tricks daughters of Pelias into cutting him into little tiny pieces
, Jason and Medea move to Corinth; Jason decides he wants to marry Glauce, daughter
of Creon;
Medea kills her and Jason's 2 sons
Jason dies old, sick, and alone when prow of ship falls on him and kills him
✔✔What happens to Medea at the end? - ✔✔either experiences apotheosis and
serpents take her to heaven or she goes somewhere else and marries a king to
eventually meet Theseus
✔✔Theban Cycle - ✔✔2 separate foundation stories
Cadmus founds idea of Thebes, Aethon and Zethus found concrete form
✔✔The First Founding of Thebes - ✔✔Cadmus searched the longest for his sister
Europa
Finally met an oracle that told him to follow a cow and wait until it laid down and start a
city there. Follows a cow and it sits there.
He then plants the dragon teeth in the ground at Athena's suggestion; teeth grow into
warriors Sparti (sown man).
One of C's sons, Nycteus, marries Antiope, who is later seduced by Z.
✔✔Second Founding of Thebes - ✔✔One of C's sons, Nycteus, marries Antiope, who is
later seduced by Z
Antiope is driven from Nycteus (bc he's embarrassed by her pregnancy) and moves to
land Sicyon and marries a king
Antiope is retrieved by Nycteus and gives birth to twins (Amphion and Zethus) on way
back;
she leaves children in meadow
Antiope is tortured by king's wife until she is rescued by her children
Zethus marries Thebe
Amphion marries Niobe
✔✔Why was Liaus (Oedipu's father) cursed? - ✔✔cursed by Pelops for raping his son;
Laius married Jocasta and Oracle foretold that Laius would die at the hand of his own
child
