Greek myth midterm

Question 1

Achilles

Answer 1

• Warrior haunted by a flaw which is mortality. This is due to his conception by mortal Peleus and the divine Thetis. His mother Thetis goddess of sea possess a prophecy that she would bear a son greater than Zeus, in which zeus had her mary a mortal man, Peleus.
  -Tried to give her mortal son immortality by dipping him in the river by his ankle.

Question 2

Acrisius

Answer 2

King of Argos, Grandfather of Perseues. Horrified by the pregnancy of his daughter Danae, he puts mother and baby in a wooden chest to be cast abroad in the ocean.
Consulted the oracle who warns him that he will be killed by his daughter’s son perseus. Perseus accidentally strikes him in the head with a discus killing him

Question 3

Acteon

Answer 3

Grandson of Lycaon, the true founder of civilized culture teaching people in arcadia agriculture and weaving. He accidentally sees diana in her bath. So he is transformed into a male stag(deer) and killed by his own hunting dogs.

Question 4

Aeacus (son of Zeus & grandfather of Achilles)

Answer 4

King of Agina, Minos is seeking allies for a military campaign against Athens. He wants Aeacus, the king of Aegina, to help him, but Aeacus is loyal to Athens. He explains that his land recently suffered a catastrophic plague. Aeacus asked Jupiter either to take away his life or to restore his people. That night he dreamed that he was under a sacred tree covered with numerous industrious ants. The next night, in the midst of a similar dream, he woke up to see a group of men called the Myrmidons hailing him as their leader.

Question 5

Aegeus (king of Athens)

Answer 5

• When Theseus his son returned victorious from Athens, where he sacrificed the bull, Madea tried to poison him. Aegeus recognized the sandals and the sword and knocked the poisoned wine cup from Theseus’s hands. Thus father and son were reunited, and Medea fled to Asia.

Question 6

Aegina (great grandmother of Achilles)

Answer 6

Nymph was the daughter of the river-god Asopus in the land of Sicyonia. Zeus in she shape of a flame carried her of to the island of oenone. Where she gave birth to his son, Aeacus, who renamed the island in honor of his mother.

Question 7

Agave

Answer 7

eldest daughter of Cadmus, king of the city Thebes. After the new king pentheus banned the worship of Dionysus. He went to woods where he thought he would see sexual activities where the maenads(followers of dionysus) tore him apart and mutilated by his own mother Agave. thinking they had just killed a lion agave carried her own sons head on a stick back to Thebes, only realizing the truth when confronted by her father, Cadmus.

Question 8

Aphrodite/Venus

Answer 8

Vulcan discovers the adultery of his wife Venus and her lover Ares/mars. Vulcan fashioned a fine iron net to catch the pair in bed and publicly expose them to the other gods.

Question 9

Apollo

Answer 9

S- on of Jupiter. Shoots and kills she-dragon (python). Cupid(eros) shoots him with arrow and lusted over Daphne even after turned into a laurel tree.
- Also allows son to ride an crash his chariot
- Kills his lover coronis, that was cheating on him, who is pregnant with his baby Asclepius

Question 10

Arachne

Answer 10

Skilled weaver who challenges Athena/Minerva to a contest in which she depicted the Gods in a negative light (rapes) showing they take what they want. she was then beaten and punished by Athena where she was turned into a spider where she can still weave but no longer has voice for he tapestries.

Question 11

Ariadne

Answer 11

she is known for helping Theseus escape the Minotaur and being abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. There, Dionysus saw Ariadne sleeping, fell in love with her, and later married her.

Question 12

Arcas

Answer 12

Son of nymph Castillo(she was turned into a bear) in which he is a hunter and finds her in her bear form. In that moment they are transformed into constellations = mama bear and lil bear in sky.

Question 13

Ares/Mars

Answer 13

The god of war which had an affair with Aphrodite/Venus, which was the wife of Hephaestus/Vulcan at the time.

Question 14

Arethusa

Answer 14

The river God Alpheus fell in love with Arethusa who was in the reunite of arttemis. Arethusa fled to ortyga, where she was changed into a spring, by diana.

Question 15

Alpheus

Answer 15

River god of elis, fell in love with the nymph Arethusa who escaped him and was turned into a spring

Question 16

Argos Panoptes

Answer 16

all seeing eye slain by hermes through power of storytelling to sleep by music

Question 17

Artemis/Diana

Answer 17

Patron Goddess of young virgins, jove disgised as her to rape castillo.

Question 18

Asclepius/Aesculapius

Answer 18

The god of healing son of Apollo and Coronis.
- Baby of dead coronis, apollos ex lover, tutored by chiron becomes master healer. Although he is going to far, and gods get mad at him for finding out immortality and price to pay is to die first to become immortal.

Question 19

Athamas

Answer 19

Ino’s husband. The fates drive him insane and he kills his infant son learchus

Question 20

athanatoi

Answer 20

soldiers who were once part of the Deathless Prophet’s ancient order, where they have devoted their eternal lives to guarding the Divine Source. These soldiers, like the Prophet, also possessed superhuman capabilities as well as immortality.

Question 21

Athena/Minerva

Answer 21

In contest against Arachne she chooses to depict her victory of Athens over her uncle Poseidon. And her gift to the land is an olive three in which they build their economy on.
keeps undesirables at bay through the power of Medusa’s head now permanently affixed to the shield across her breast.

Question 22

Atlas

Answer 22

-Almost fails to balance worlds hot axis after phaetons crash
Brother of prometheus, condemned to a fixed position task.
-Atlas must carry world, turned into a stony mountain by perseus

Question 23

Bacchus/Dionysus

Answer 23

Semel’s child ripped from his mothers womb and sown into father’s thigh(zeus). The baby is the god of Wine, life energy, and transformation.
Raised by mortals, Ino semele’s sister. His aunt
Encourages mortals, specifically women to step outside of their normal, social constraints. Endows women with superhuman strength and abilities

Question 24

Bacchant/Maenad

Answer 24

women devoted to dionysus/ Bacchus

Question 25

Bellerophon

Question 26

Boreas & Orithyia

Question 27

Boreades

Question 28

Cadmus

Answer 28

Burdened with calamities, Cadmus reflects on their possible cause/origin. Together with his wife harmonia turns into the snake he once killed.The peaceful ending that comes with recognizing and accepting that your enemy and yourself share more than you thought.

Question 29

Callisto