Round 8: 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 (-5[1])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, (10[1])Eriphyle, is bribed with this object by Polynices, who had inherited it (-5[1])from Jocasta. Hephaestus gifts this object to the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite (-5[1])during her wedding to Cadmus, the founder of (-5[1])Thebes. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what piece of accursed jewelry was owned by the goddess of concord? ■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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