Greece

Question 1

Hymen

Answer 1

God of marriage ceremonies; son of Apollo and one of the Muses

Question 2

Pausanias

Answer 2

150 AD Geographer

Question 3

Callistratus

Answer 3

Spoke at the assembly; he inspired Demosthenes to become an orator. Organized the Athenian confederacy along with Chabrias and Timotheus; accused in 361 of not having given the People the best advice, went into exile; upon return to Athens, executed. Aristophon, a man of advanced years, became the most influential statesman in Athens; he had been powerful early in the century; his friendly inclinations towards Thebes had kept him out of popularity.

Question 4

Campaspe

Answer 4

Alexander’s girlfriend

Question 5

Dionysus

Answer 5

god of wine, reproduction, and nature; Zeus impregnated Semele, destroyed her with a thunderbolt, implanted the fetus in his thigh

Question 6

Eleuther

Answer 6

son of Aethusa and Apollo; Eleuther presented a statue of Dionysus to Athens, who rejected it. Plague was brought on the genitals of Athenians. They changed their minds and began the Dionysia.

Question 7

Plataea

Answer 7

south of Thebes; where an alliance of Greek city states defeated the Persians

Question 8

Eurydice

Answer 8

while running from Aristaeus, a viper bit her and she died; Orpheus was her husband - he tried to retrieve her from the underworld, but lost her because he looked back at her before they had reached the living world.

Question 9

Aristaeus

Answer 9

god of bee-keeping; fell in love with Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus, chased her and she was killed by a snake

Question 10

Callisto

Answer 10

virgin nymph of Artemis; raped by Zeus; Artemis turned her into a she-bear