Greece

Question 1

Herodotus

Answer 1

father of history

Question 2

Hesiod

Answer 2

wrote a poem on the genealogy of the gods; dour and bitter farmer in Boeotia, unsympathetic view of women

Question 3

Isaeus

Answer 3

taught Demosthenes

Question 4

Μenotaur

Answer 4

half man and half bull, the offspring of Pasiphaë and a bull. Confined in Crete in a labyrinth made by Daedalus and fed on human flesh, it was eventually slain by Theseus.

Question 5

Pasiphaë

Answer 5

Queen of Crete, married to crazy King Minos of Crete, cheated on him with a bull and gave birth to the Minotaur, condemned to death for this; mother of Ariadne

Question 6

Daedalus

Answer 6

created the labyrinth on Crete for the Minotaur

Question 7

Minos

Answer 7

Mad King Minos of Crete

Question 8

Ariadne

Answer 8

virgin; half sister of the Minotaur; daughter of Queen Pasiphaë of Crete and Minos. She helped Theseus to escape from the Minotaur’s labyrinth by giving him a ball of thread; Dionysus approached the sleeping Ariadne on the island of Naxos after her abandonment by the treacherous Theseus.

Question 9

Athena

Answer 9

The goddess of hate, murder, death, evil, destruction, and vindictiveness; the man-goddess, sexless in birth and in life; born when Hephaestus made a special axe and split Zeus’ head open; her shield had a depiction of Greeks slaying Amazons

Question 10

Calypso

Answer 10

a nymph who Odysseus spent ten years with on her island