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Demeter Flashcards

1
Q

What was another greek name for Demeter?

A

Deo

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2
Q

Who were the parents of Demeter?

A

Cronus and Rhea

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3
Q

Who gave pelops his ivory shoulder?

A

Demeter

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4
Q

Who was seduced by Iasion?

A

Demeter

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5
Q

Who lay in a thrice plowed field with demeter?

A

Iasion

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6
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Which goddess lay in a thrice…

A

demeter

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7
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Iasion + demeter?

A

Plutus and Philomelus

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8
Q

Who invented the wagon?

A

Philomelus

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9
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Who did Demeter place in the stars as Bootes?

A

Philomelus

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10
Q

What is Drepane named for?

A

Demeter’s sickle

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11
Q

Where did Demeter teach the titans to sow corn?

A

Drepane

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12
Q

Who made flowers to grow for Persephone to pick?

A

Ge

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13
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Who changed Melpomene’s
daughters into Sirens for their unwillingness to join in the search?

A

Demeter

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14
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Who created the sirens?

A

demeter

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15
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Whose daughter’s became the sirens?

A

Melpolmene’s

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16
Q

Who told demeter that Persephone had been carried off?

A

Hecate

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17
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After speaking with Hecate, who did Demeter rush to?

A

Helius

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18
Q

Who told Demeter that it was Hades who carried Persephone off?

A

Helius

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19
Q

While Demeter was passing through Arcadia, who tried to rape her?

A

Poseidon

20
Q

Demeter + Poseidon?

A

Arion

21
Q

Who are the parents of Arion?

A

Poseidon and Demeter

22
Q

Whose herds did Demeter hide with to avoid Poseidon?

A

Oncius’s

23
Q

Shut in a cave on
Mount Elaeiis, near Phigalia…

A

Demeter

24
Q

Who eventually found Demeter in the cave?

A

Pan

25
Q

Who did Zeus send to talk to Demeter in the cave?

A

the fates

26
Q

Who did Demeter transform into a lizard?

A

Ascalabus

27
Q

Who ridiculed Demeter for drinking so greedily?

A

Ascalabus

28
Q

What was ascalabus turned into?

A

a lizard

29
Q

Who is the wife of Celeus?

A

Metaneira

30
Q

Who is the husband of Metaneira?

A

Celeus

31
Q

Who at Eleusis made demeter laugh?

A

Iambe

32
Q

Demeter sat in a comer immersed in her grief until a waiting woman induced her to smile at her quips..

A

Iambe

33
Q

In her eagerness to make him immortal and ageless, Demeter…

A

Demophon

34
Q

Who in the underworld told on Persephone for eating pomegranate?

A

Ascalaphus

35
Q

What son of Acheron…

A

Ascalaphus

36
Q

What did Demeter turn Ascalaphus into?

A

an owl

37
Q

Who pinned Ascalaphus under a rock?

A

Demeter

38
Q

Who did Demeter turn into an owl?

A

Ascalaphus

39
Q

Who was sent to summon Demeter to Olympus?

A

Iris

40
Q

Who did Zeus send to reason with Demeter?

A

Rhea

41
Q

Who gave Triptolemus a dragon drawn chariot?

A

Demeter

42
Q

Who did Demeter give a dragon drawn chariot?

A

Triptolemus

43
Q

Who flew through the air sowing corn, or else teaching the people of many lands how to cultivate grains?

A

Triptolemus

44
Q

Who did demeter give a fig tree to?

A

Phytalus

45
Q

What did Demeter give to Phytalus?

A

a fig tree

46
Q

What festival did Triptolemus establish?

A

Thesmophoria

47
Q

Three people that might have helped Demeter with finding Persephone

A

Hecate, Helius, Arethusa

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