7th - 9th Grade: Mythology Flashcards
Who is the Roman goddess of the dawn?
Aurora
Who is the Roman goddess of arts & wisdom?
Minerva
Who is the Roman god of fire?
Vulcan
Who is the Roman god of wine?
Bacchus
Who is the Roman god of harvest & agriculture?
Saturn
Who is the Roman goddess pf agriculture?
Ceres
What horrible, ugly goddess had snakes for hair, and chased people who committed crimes and drove them mad?
Medusa
With his wife Hecuba, he had a number of children, including Troilus, Hector & Paris. Who is this king of Troy?
Priam (pry-am)
Who was the legendary ruler of Crete, the son of Zeus and Europa, who built the labyrinth to house the Minotaur?
King Minos
Who was the leader of the Greeks during the Trojan War?
Achilles
Who is the Greek god of the fields, herds, flocks, and fertility?
Pan
Who was the Greek god of light, medicine, music and poetry?
Apollo
Who was the Greek god of sleep?
Hypnos
Who was the Greek god of time?
Chronos
Who was the Greek god of the sun?
Helios
Who was the Greek goddess of agriculture and fertility
Demeter
Who was the Greek goddess of the hearth?
Hestia
Who was the Greek goddess of the moon?
Selene
Who was the Greek goddess of wisdom and war
Athena
In Greek mythology, who was the Queen of the Titans and wife of Cronus?
Rhea
On what island, the largest of the Greek isles, was the mythological minotaur imprisoned in the labyrnith?
Crete
What kind of carved stone coffin originated with the ancient Greeks, who believed that a certain kind of stone would consume human flesh?
Sarcophagus
Who was the leader of the Greeks during the Trojan War?
Achilles
According to Greek mythology, which girlfriend of Zeus was turned into a cow?
Io
Who is the Greek god of the fields, herds, flocks, and fertility?
Pan
