| A | B |
| Greek saga period | Late Bronze, 1600-1100 BC |
| Legendary Founder of Thebes | Cadmus |
| Woman abducted by Zeus in guise of a bull | Europa |
| Spartoi means | sown-men |
| Laius brought a curse on his house by | carrying off the son of his host |
| Raised Oedipus | Polybus and Merope |
| Place where Oedipus was promised a respite | Colonus |
| The trinket that proved the undoing of Alcmaeon | a necklace |
| Treasonous act of Antigone | Buried her brother Polynices |
| Tiresias | After death lost gift of prophecy; Blinded by Athena after he saw her naked; Descended from one of the Spartoi |
| Two who escaped death in combat at Thebes | Amphiaraus and Adrastus |
| Sons of the Seven Against Thebes | Epignoi |
| Two sons of Antiope who avenged her | Amphion and Zethus |
| Citadel of Thebes named after founder | Cadmeia |
| Playwright who wrote the tragedy Seven Against Thebes | Aeschylus |