Question

For 10 points each, answer the following about Greek myths regarding people who drink bull’s blood.
[10e] Possibly based on an historical king of Phrygia, this man killed himself by drinking bull’s blood. Dionysus gave this man the ability to turn anything he touched gold.
ANSWER: Midas
[10m] According to Apollodorus, this man’s father Aeson killed himself in prison by drinking bull’s blood. This man frightened his uncle Pelias by coming back to Iolcus wearing one sandal.
ANSWER: Jason
[10h] One ancient writer recounts how, in an offering to Poseidon, priests in this region would drink a clot of blood from a sacrificed bull. That text also lists 10 kings of this region who were children of the autochthonous Evenor.
ANSWER: Atlantis (The text is Plato’s Critias.)
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