Round 7: Tossup 4
A housefire indirectly caused by this object claims the life of Phayllus’s mistress after it had been stolen from the Temple of Athena Pronaea in Delphi. It’s not a garment, but Callirhoe (“kuh-LIR-oh-ee”) demands that her husband retrieve this object, which possesses two golden ruby-eyed serpents and a four-winged golden eagle. Hyginus’s Fabulae instead attributes this object’s supernatural properties to a peplos gifted to its owner at the same time by Hera and Hephaestus. Amphiarus is persuaded to join the Seven Against Thebes after his wife, Eriphyle, is bribed with this object by Polynices, who had inherited it from Jocasta. Hephaestus gifts this object to the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite during her wedding to Cadmus, the founder of Thebes. For 10 points, what piece of accursed jewelry was owned by the goddess of concord? ■END■
ANSWER: necklace of Harmonia [accept the necklace of Eriphyle until read] (Phayllus’s mistress’s son goes mad and burns their house down.)
<KT, Mythology> | Packet J - Southampton A, Indiana A, Illinois B, Edinburgh A
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