Final Flashcards
What is the name of the river of forgetfulness in the Underworld?
a. Phlegethon
b. Lethe
c. Cocytus
d. Styx
Lethe
Who is Tisiphone?
a. one of the Maenads who tore Pentheus apart
b. The prophetess who guides Aeneas into the Underworld
c. Another name for Peresephone
d. the fury who guards the entrance to Tartarus
the fury who guards the entrance to Tartarus
Who requested burial from Odysseus in the Underworld?
a. Palinurus
b. Achilles
c. Elpenor
d. Misenus
Elpenor
Which is not a name for the king of the Underworld?
a. Hades
b. Pluto
c. Dis
d. Erebus
Erebus
What is the name of the hateful river in the Underworld?
a. Lethe
b. Cocytus
c. Styx
d. Acheron
Styx
Who was Orpheus’ bride?
a. Eurynome
b. Eurydice
c. Phaedra
d. Hymenaea
Eurydice
With what region is Orpheus often associated?
a. Corsica
b. Thrace
c. Phrygia
d. Crete
Thrace
What practice is Orpheus credited with originating among his people after his unsuccessful attempt to rescue his wife?
a. signing to the Iyre
b. homosexuality
c. funeral rites
d. celibate life
homosexuality
Who is orpheus’ father, according to Ovid’s account?
a. Zeus
b. Dionysus
c. Hades
d. Apollo
Apollo
How does Orpheus die?
a. he wastes away after his unsuccessful attempt to retrieve his wife.
b. in grief he live sin desolate places and is killed by a boar
c. he is torn apart by the women whos love he has spurned.
d. he is killed by Hades when he tried to retrieve his wife a second time.
he is torn apart by the women whos love he has spurned.
Who was the father of Cadmus?
a. Agenor
b. Lycus
c. Zeus
d. Labdacus
Agenor
Who became the wife of Cadmus?
a. Antiope
b. Boeotia
c. Harmonia
d. Ino
Harmonia
Who is not the daughter of Cadmus?
a. Antiope
b. Boeotia
c. Harmonia
d. Ino
Antiope
How were the walls of Thebes constructed?
a. Poseidon built them to repay his debt to Cadmus
b. Zeus called forth a rain of stones
c. The Spartoi built them at the behest of Cadmus
d. They were built with the aid of Amphion’s Iyre
They were built with the aid of Amphion’s Iyre
Who did Oedipus believe were his real parents before he learned the truth?
a. Lycus and Dirce
b. Jocasta and Laius
c. Polybus and Merope
d. Laius and Merope
Polybus and Merope
Who abused the privilege of eating with the gods by serving them his son?
a. Tantalus
b. Pelops
c. Agamemnon
d. Atreus
Tantalus
Who was the only one that was tricked into taking part in the human feast offered to the gods?
a. Poseidon
b. Demeter
c. Hera
d. Athena
Demeter
Who was bribed by Pelops to fix the chariot race?
a. Marsyas
b. Oenomaus
c. tantalus
d. Myrtilus
Myrtilus
What would prove the identity of the rightful king of Mycenae in the generation after Pelops?
a. the true descendant of the previous king
b. the correct answer to a riddle
c. a scar
d. the possession of a golden-fleeced ram
the possession of a golden-fleeced ram
Which is NOT a name for those underworld spirits that seek blood retribution?
a. Erinyes
b. Eumenides
c. Furies
d. Daemoni
Daemoni
Who is the deformed soldier who speaks against Agamemnon and is soundly thrashed by Odysseus?
a. Hippolochus
b. Dolon
c. Glaucus
d. Thersites
Thersites
Agamemnon refused to give back to Apollo’s priest his daughter, named:
a. Briseis
b. Helen
c. Chryseis
d. Andromache
Chryseis
Who carried the bow of Heracles, without the aid of which Troy could not fall?
a. Patroclus
b. Achilles
c. Philoctetes
d. Telephus
Philoctetes
Who escorted Priam to Achilles’ tent?
a. Hermes
b. Nestor
c. Ares
d. Cassandra
Hermes
What is the final scene of the Iliad?
a. Hector’s death
b. the battle for the city ensuing after the deception of the Trojan Horse
c. Hector’s funeral
d. the Trojan Horse being dragged inside the city of Troy
Hector’s funeral
With whom does Odysseus spend seven of the ten years it takes him to return home?
a. Circe
b. Polyphemus
c. Calypso
d. Aeolus
Calypso
What god aids Odysseus’ escape from Circe with the aid of the Moly?
a. Eidothea
b. Hermes
c. Athena
d. Zeus
Hermes
In what encounter does Odysseus lose all his remaining comrades?
a. the encounter with Circe
b. the encounter with the Laestrygonians
c. the encounter with Polyphemus
d. the encounter with the Cattle of the Sun
the encounter with the Cattle of the Sun
Who is the leader of the suitors and the first one killed?
a. Theoclymenus
b. Amphinomus
c. Antinous
d. Automedon
Antinous
Who is the person whom Odysseus is told to entreat first for help when he reaches the realm of Phaeacia?
a. the Bard, Demodocus
b. the Princess, Nausicaa
c. the Queen of Phaeacia, Arete
d. the King of Phaeacia, Alcinous
the Queen of Phaeacia, Arete
On what island does the chest in which Danae and Perseus are confined wash up?
a. Crete
b. Lemnos
c. Seriphos
d. Cios
Seriphos
What is the closest meaning for the name of Dictys?
a. salvation
b. perserver
c. raft
d. net
net
What is the gift that Hermes provides Perseus?
a. a bag
b. a mirror-shield
c. winged sandals
d. a scimitar
a scimitar
Who are the daughters of Phorcys whose name means the “aged ones”?
a. the Hags of Seriphos
b. the Stygian Nymphs
c. the Gorgons
d. the Graeae
the Graeae
Who is the father of Danae and grandfather of Perseus?
a. Proetus
b. Acrisius
c. Argos
d. Poseidon
Acrisius
Which of his tutors did Heracles kill?
a. Autolycus
b. Amphitryon
c. Eurytus
d. Linus
Linus
Who was the first wife of Heracles, whom he killed in a fit of rage?
a. Megara
b. Deianira
c. Iole
d. Omphale
Megara
After what labor does Heracles institute the Olympic Games?
a. the Augean Stables
b. the Nemean lion
c. the Lernaean Hydra
d. the Stymphalian Birds
the Augean Stables
Which companion of Heracles is lost on the Argonaut expedition?
a. Calais
b. Orpheus
c. Zetes
d. Hylas
Hylas
What playwright wrote a comedy about the events surrounding the conception of Heracles?
a. Menander
b. Aristophanes
c. Terence
d. Plautus
Aristophanes
From whom does Erichthonius spring?
a. Zeus and Pandrosos
b. Zeus and Herse
c. Cecrops and Athena
d. Hephaestus and Athena
Hephaestus and Athena
Who is the mother of Theseus?
a. Aethra
b. Orithyia
c. Procne
d. Megara
Aethra
Theseus abandons Ariadne on what island?
a. Naxos
b. Crete
c. Lemnos
d. Samos
Naxos
Who is the son of Minos for whose death Minos seeks vengeance from Athens?
a. Androgeos
b. Medus
c. Melampus
d. Hecalus
Androgeos
Whose son does Theseus claim to be when Minos makes an attempt upon one of the Athenian maids on board ship?
a. Triton
b. Zeus
c. Proteus
d. Poseidon
Poseidon
Which goddess disguises herself as an old woman and asks Jason to help her cross a stream?
a. Artemis
b. Hera
c. Athena
d. Aphrodite
Hera
In what city does Euripides’ Medea take place?
a. Corinth
b. Athens
c. Miletus
d. Iolcus
Corinth
Who was the Boeotian king who took Nephele as his first wife?
a. Cretheus
b. Acastus
c. Phrixus
d. Athamas
Athamas
Jason was put in the care of Chiron’s mother. Who was she?
a. Chalciope
b. Ino
c. Tyro
d. Philyra
Philyra
Who usurped the throne from Aeson and became king of Iolcus?
a. Cretheus
b. Neleus
c. Aeolus
d. Pelias
Pelias
Who is the most important of the classical authors in the transmission of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern legends?
a. Apollodorus
b. Hyginus
c. Ovid
d. Vergil
Ovid
What work includes letters from mythological heroines to their absent lovers?
a. Genealogiae
b. Amores
c. Heroides
d. Metamorphoses
Heroides
Who swam the Hellespont each night to visit his lover?
a. Hero
b. Leander
c. Zephyrus
d. Acontius
Leander
Who was the Italian fertility goddess whose six-day spring festival included indecent mimes?
a. Venus
b. Cydippe
c. Diana
d. Flora
Flora
Who was the Italian fertility goddess who was won over by Vertumnus?
a. Ops
b. Ceres
c. Flora
d. Pomona
Pomona
Of the twelve principal Roman gods, which one is identical with a Greek counterpart?
a. Vesta
b. Diana
c. Ceres
d. Apollo
Apollo
What god is typically named first in Roman formal prayers?
a. Juno
b. Iovis
c. Janus
d. Jupiter
Janus
What kind of deity is Mars in his earliest form?
a. god of battle
b. god of merchants
c. god of agriculture
d. god of rivers
god of agriculture
What is known as the “Capitoline triad?”
a. Jupiter, Minerva, and Juno
b. Jupiter, Minerva, and Vesta
c. Jupiter, Minerva, and Ceres
d. Jupiter, Juno, and Diana
Jupiter, Minerva, and Juno
The term penus refers to:
a. a river
b. the earth
c. a doorway
d. a cupboard
a cupboard
