Gaia, Ouranos, and Zeus

Question 1

Primordial Greek Earth Goddess

Answer 1

Gaia

Question 2

Gaia’s son with Aether with whom she bore the sea goddesses

Answer 2

Pontus

Question 3

Gaia’s children, the gods of the mountains

Answer 3

Ourea

Question 4

Gaia’s children, the gods of the islands

Answer 4

Nesoi

Question 5

Child of Zeus and Elara who is sometimes said to be a child of Gaia since Elara was hid in the Earth when he was born.

Answer 5

Tityos (Tityus)

Question 6

Culture hero who discovered many arts such as bee-keeping who Gaia made immortal.

Answer 6

Aristaeus

Question 7

Infant fruit gods who often appear among Gaia in mosaics

Answer 7

Karpoi (Carpi)

Question 8

Legendary early ruler of Athens, born from the Earth (Gaia) when Hephaestus’s stuff fell on it.

Answer 8

Erichthonius

Question 9

5 Gods born from Chaos (the original god). These were the gods of the earth, the night, darkness, the underworld, and love.

Answer 9

Erebus, Nyx, Gaia, Tartarus, Eros

Question 10

Roman equivalent to Uranus

Answer 10

Caelus

Question 11

Greek Age during which Cronus ruled

Answer 11

Golden Age

Question 12

Tree nymphs that are the children of Uranus (from when Uranus’s blood fell on Gaia) along with the Furies

Answer 12

Meliae

Question 13

According to Works and Days, Cronus ruled this part of the underworld where people who were reincarnated three times (and each time gained access to Elysium) went

Answer 13

The Isles of the Blessed, Some sources say he actually ruled all of Elysium

Question 14

According to Hyginus, this god hung himself from a tree so he wouldn’t be in the land, sea, or heavens, all places where his father Cronus had jurisdiction.

Answer 14

Zeus

Question 15

Greek harvest festival named after Cronus that is equivalent to Roman Saturnalia

Answer 15

Kronia

Question 16

Stone at the center of the world which Cronus ate thinking it was Zeus

Answer 16

Omphalos

Question 17

Goat which raised Zeus on Mount Ida

Answer 17

Amaltheia

Question 18

First wife of Zeus who Zeus swallowed because of a prophecy

Answer 18

Metis

Question 19

What animal did Zeus disguise as to seduce Hera?

Answer 19

Cuckoo

Question 20

Two humans who survived Zeus’s great flood

Answer 20

Deucalion and Pyrrha

Question 21

Aetolian princess and Spartan queen who Zeus seduced in the form of a swan

Answer 21

Leda

Question 22

Argive Phoenician princess who Zeus seduced in the form of a bull

Answer 22

Europa

Question 23

Tyrant who fed Zeus human flesh, causing Zeus to turn him into a wolf in a rage

Answer 23

Lycaon (origin of Lycanthrope)