hercules' life and other stories

Question 1

who are herakles’ parents

Answer 1

Zeus and Alcmene

Question 2

what books have Hercules’ stories

Answer 2

Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Question 3

what did he do soon after his brith

Answer 3

strangled two poisonous snakes

Question 4

who is hercules cousin

Answer 4

eurytheus

Question 5

who became hercules protector after he was abandoned

Answer 5

athena

Question 6

how did hera punish him

Answer 6

gave him a madness where he killed his wife - Megara, and their children

Question 7

why did he have to complete labours

Answer 7

to repay the king of Mycenae (Eurystheus, his cousin) for killing his wife and children

Question 8

who is achelous

Answer 8

river god who fought and lost to hercules

Question 9

in which book is the story of achelous and hercules

Answer 9

ovid’s metamorphoses

Question 10

why did achelous and hercules fight

Answer 10

they both wanted to marry Deianira

Question 11

how does the fight start

Answer 11

hercules starts it by managing to jump onto achelous

Question 12

what does achelous turn into

Answer 12

a snake then a bull

Question 13

what does hercules do to achelous

Answer 13

rips off his horn when in bull form

Question 14

what does achelous’ horn become

Answer 14

the cornucopia - horn of plenty

Question 15

what happens when Hercules and Deianira are travelling and they reach a river

Answer 15

Nessus offers to helo them

Question 16

who is nessus

Answer 16

a centaur who tried to abduct Deianira

Question 17

how does nessus abduct Deianira

Answer 17

whilst hercules swims across the river he takes her and tries to run away

Question 18

why does nessus fail to abduct deianira

Answer 18

hercules shoots him with a poisoned arrow

Question 19

what does nessus give deianira as his parting gift

Answer 19

his blood and poison stained shirt

Question 20

when does deianira give nessus’ shirt to hercules

Answer 20

when she thinks hercules has fallen in love with another woman

Question 21

how does hercules die

Answer 21

he wears the shirt and it poisons him

Question 22

who is lichas

Answer 22

hercules servant who gets thrown off a cliff and turns into stone because of the impact

Question 23

who is cacus

Answer 23

a monster who lived in a cave on the avantine hill who terrorised villages

Question 24

who is cacus’ dad

Answer 24

Hephaestus

Question 25

during what labour does hercules encounter cacus

Answer 25

during the cattle of geryon

Question 26

what does cacus steal

Answer 26

8 of the cattle of geryon

Question 27

what does cacus do after hercules attacks him

Answer 27

flees to hide in his cave

Question 28

how does hercules get to the cave

Answer 28

he ripps off the top of it

Question 29

how does hercules find cacus in the cave

Answer 29

he goes to where the smoke is thickest

Question 30

how does hercules kill cacus

Answer 30

he strangles him

Question 31

who is telling the story of Cacus to who

Answer 31

King Evander is telling Aeneas

Question 32

who is telling the story of achelous, nessus, deianira and hercules to who

Answer 32

achelous is telling theseus