Greak Mythology (Describing Names/Places)

Question 1

Describe The Following Name: Zeus (Roman Name/RN: Jupiter/ Jove)

Answer 1

King of Gods/ God of Thunder and Lighting

Question 2

Describe The Following Name: Poseidon (RN: Neptune)

Answer 2

Brother of Zeus/ God of the Ocean (Carries a trident)

Question 3

Describe The Following Name: Hera (RN: Juno)

Answer 3

Wife and Sister of Zeus/ Queen of gods/guardian of marriage/ very jealous of Zeus’s other wives (especially mortal woman)

Question 4

Describe The Following Name: Athena (RN: Minerva)

Answer 4

Daughter of Zeus
- Born of Zeus’s headache
-Goddess of Wisdom and War
-Athens, Greece was named for her

Question 5

Describe The Following Name: Apollo

Answer 5

Son of Zeus and Letos/Twin Brother of Artemis
- God of poetry/music/medicine/ and light (sun god)

Question 6

Describe The Following Name: Artemis (RN: Diana)

Answer 6

Daughter of Zeus and Letos/Twin Sister of Apollo
-Goddess of hunting
- Goddes of the moon
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Question 7

Describe The Following Name: Ares (RN: Mars)

Answer 7

Son of Zeus (Terrible god of War)

Question 8

Describe The Following Name: Hephaestus (RN: Vulcan)

Answer 8

Son of Zeus and Hera
- Goddess of fire
- Lame blacksmith

Question 9

Describe The Following Name: Aphrodite (RN: Venus)

Answer 9

Wife of Hephaestus
- Goddess of love and beauty
- Born from the blood of Chrono/ Sea Foam

Question 10

Describe The Following Name: Eros/Cupid

Answer 10

The Son of Aphrodite
- shoots arrows causing people to fall in love with each other

Question 11

Describe The Following Name: Hermes (RN: Mercury)

Answer 11

Zeus’s Son
- Messenger of the Gods
- God of Science and Invention

Question 12

Describe The Following Name: Hestia (RN: Vesta)

Answer 12

Zeus’s Sister
- Goddess of hearth and home

Question 13

Describe The Following Name: Demeter (RN: Ceres)

Answer 13

Zeus’s Sister
- Goddess of agriculture

Question 14

Describe The Following Name: Hades

Answer 14

Zeus’s Brother
- Lord of the dead/underworld

Question 15

Describe The Following Name: Pan

Answer 15

God of wood and fields
- half man half goat: Faun
- very musical (earth god)

Question 16

Describe The Following Name: Dionysus

Answer 16

God of wine/revelry/dancing
- granted Midas the golden touch

Question 17

Describe The Following Name: Silenus

Answer 17

Teacher/tutor of Dionysus

Question 18

Describe The Following Name: Penelope

Answer 18

A nymph of the woods (mortal)

Question 19

Describe The Following Name: Syrinx

Answer 19

A nymph who did not return Pan’s love

Question 20

Describe The Following Name: Tmolus

Answer 20

Mountain-God
- Judge the music contest between Apollo and Pan

Question 21

Describe The Following Place: Mt. Olympus

Answer 21

Home of the gods

Question 22

Describe The Following Place: Phrygia

Answer 22

A Country on earth/The Kingdom of Midas

Question 23

Describe The Following Place: Pactolus

Answer 23

A cleansing river where Midas had gone too, to get rid of his golden touch.

Question 24

Describe The Following Place: Delos

Answer 24

The rocky island were Artemis and Apollo were born.

Question 25

Describe The Following Names: Cronos

Answer 25

Leader of the Titans - ate his five children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon - later gets killed by his sixth child Zeus

Question 26

Describe The Following Names: Rhea

Answer 26

Crono's Sister and Wife

Question 27

Describe The Following Names: Atlas

Answer 27

A banished Titan - Punished by being made to hold the world

Question 28

Describe The Following Names: Prometheus

Answer 28

Conquered Titan -created Man - stole fire from the gods and gave it to man

Question 29

Describe The Following Names: Epimetheus

Answer 29

Conquered Titan -Prometheus's brother - Helped create life on earth (animals and plants)

Question 30

Describe The Following Names: Eros

Answer 30

God of Life (breathed life into objects)

Question 31

Describe The Following Names: Arachne

Answer 31

mortal skilled weaver but conceited - challenged Athene to a weaving contest and won/lost - got turned into a spider after being killed/punishment

Question 32

Describe The Following Names: Gordius

Answer 32

King of Phrygia - made King when he was the first to ride in a wagon - made a Gordius note to honour his appointment as King of Phrygia - Father of Midas

Question 33

Describe The Following Names: Cybele

Answer 33

Gordius's wife - Queen of Phrygia - Mother of Mida

Question 34

Describe The Following Names: Midas

Answer 34

Son of Gordius and Cybele - The new ruler of Phrygia - The one who had the golden touch

Question 35

Describe The Following Names: Letos

Answer 35

Mother of Apollo and Artemis/ Mistress of Zeus - A titan

Question 36

Describe The Following Names: Alcmene

Answer 36

Mortal daughter of the King of Mycenae - Mother of Hercules - Got tricked by Zeus to have intercourse with her

Question 37

Describe The Following Names: Hesperides

Answer 37

Titan daughters of Atlas - their duty was to guard the golden apples

Question 38

Describe The Following Names: Hercules

Answer 38

Hercules - son of Alcmene and Zeus - had to perform twelve difficult tasks to get rid of himself of the guilt he had from being driven by Hera to kill his family.