Edith Hamilton Chapter 1

Question 1

Who guarded the gate of clouds, the entrance to Mount Olympus?

Answer 1

The Seasons

Question 2

Whose oracle was at Dodona?

Answer 2

Zeus

Question 3

Who brought up Hera?

Answer 3

Oceanus and Tethys

Question 4

What daughter of Hera helped people in child birth?

Answer 4

Eileithyia

Question 5

What was Hera’s favorite city?

Answer 5

Argos

Question 6

What granddaughter of Oceanus was the wife of Poseidon?

Answer 6

Amphitrite

Question 7

Who has a far-famed cap/helmet who made whoever wears it invisible?

Answer 7

Hades

Question 8

Who was Death, not king of the dead?

Answer 8

Thanatos/Orcus(Greek and Roman named respectively)

Question 9

Full grown and full armored….who was born from the head of Zeus?

Answer 9

Athena

Question 10

Who created the olive tree?

Answer 10

Athena

Question 11

Who was called the “most Greek of all the gods?”

Answer 11

Apollo

Question 12

What were the sacred springs of Delphi?

Answer 12

Castalia

Question 13

What was the River of Delphi?

Answer 13

Cephissus

Question 14

What lived in the caves of Parnassus?

Answer 14

Python

Question 15

What was Apollo’s tree?

Answer 15

Laurel tree

Question 16

Where was Artemis born?

Answer 16

Mt. Cynthus in Delos

Question 17

What was Artemis called for her birth place?

Answer 17

Cynthia

Question 18

What three hearts can Aphrodite not bend or ensnare?

Answer 18

Vesta, Athena, and Artemis

Question 19

Who was Iphigenia sacrificed to for safe travels?

Answer 19

Artemis

Question 20

Who is the goddess with three forms?

Answer 20

Artemis

Question 21

What daughter if Zeus and Dione?

Answer 21

Aphrodite

Question 22

Who sprung from sea foam near Cythera?

Answer 22

Aphrodite

Question 23

What was the tree of Aphrodite?

Answer 23

The Myrtle tree

Question 24

What daughter if Atlas was the mother of Hermes?

Answer 24

Maia

Question 25

What was the lyre made out of and by who?

Answer 25

Tortoise shell and Hermes