Lesson 15

Question 1

turned stories into poems and songs

Answer 1

Nine Muses

Question 2

muse of heroic poetry

Answer 2

Calliope

Question 3

Callipe’s mortal son

Answer 3

Orpheus

Question 4

avenging furies of the underworld

Answer 4

Erinyes

Question 5

mother of Muses; goddess of memory

Answer 5

Mnemosyne

Question 6

slopes where the Muses range and played music

Answer 6

Mount Parnassus

Question 7

island where Opheus’ body was found

Answer 7

Lesbos

Question 8

of a sickly, yellow color

Answer 8

sallow

Question 9

Why and on what condition did Hades agree to release Euridice from the underworld?

Answer 9

Persephone, queen of the underworld and Hades’ wife, persuaded Hades to allow Euridice to return to the world of the living. Hades agreed to let Euridice out of the underworld providing Orpheus not look back at her before they reached the realm of the living.

Question 10

Identify the marked location.

Answer 10

Mt. Parnassus

Question 11

Identify the marked location.

Answer 11

Thrace

Question 12

father of the centaurs; King of Lapith people

Answer 12

Ixion

Question 13

temperaments, moods

Answer 13

dispositions

Question 14

affliction

Answer 14

scourge

Question 15

to go beyond the limit, power, or capacity of

Answer 15

surpass

Question 16

Why were Hades and the Three Fates upset with Asclepius?

Answer 16

Asclepius could bring the dead back to life. This upset the Three Fates because they felt as if they were measuring and clipping the threads of life for no reason. Hades was angry because he thought he was being cheated out of dead souls who would otherwise join his underworld.

Question 17

Identify the marked location.

Answer 17

Mt. Pelion

Question 19

god of nature

Answer 19

Pan

Question 20

nymph who fell in love with Narcissus

Answer 20

Echo

Question 21

loved himself so much he died

Answer 21

Narcissus

Question 22

nymph; was turned into a laurel tree

Answer 22

Daphne

Question 23

highest honor a hero could receive

Answer 23

laurel wreath

Question 24

fascinated

Answer 24

spellbound

Question 25

sorrowful, mournful, sad

Answer 25

plaintive

Question 26

to urgently beg

Answer 26

beseech

Question 27

Why was Daphne turned into a laurel tree?

Answer 27

As Daphne ran away from Apollo she asked her father the river-god Ladon to save her,. He had no time to rise out of the riverbed so he turned her toes into the roots and her arms into the branches of a laurel tree. Daphne said she would rather be an unmoving tree than the bride of Apollo.

Question 28

the gentle dawn; mother of the Four Winds

Answer 28

Eos

Question 29

the sun

Answer 29

Helios

Question 30

Helios' mortal son

Answer 30

Paëthon

Question 31

the moon

Answer 31

Selene

Question 32

creature that is half horse, half man

Answer 32

centaur

Question 33

hedonistic woodland creature with goat's features

Answer 33

satyr

Question 34

withered, dried up

Answer 34

wizened

Question 35

the 12 principal constellations

Answer 35

zodiac

Question 36

What happened to the earth when Paëthon drove too high or too low?

Answer 36

When the chariot raced too close to the earth, the ground cracked from the heat, and the rivers and lakes dried up. When it raced too high, the earth froze and turned to ice.

Question 37

curiosity led her to release miseries from her jar

Answer 37

Pandora

Question 38

Prometheus' son, father of a new race of men

Answer 38

Deucalion

Question 39

a stronger race of mortals; better able to endure miseries

Answer 39

Deucalion's Race

Question 40

the North Wind; icy and wild

Answer 40

Boreas

Question 41

the South Wind; foggy and heavy

Answer 41

Notus

Question 42

the West Wind; gentle and pleasant

Answer 42

Zephyr

Question 43

the East Wind; least important

Answer 43

Eurus

Question 44

unable to be satisfied

Answer 44

insatiable

Question 45

What was the new race of mortals called? How was this race better than the previous one?

Answer 45

The new race of mortals was called Deucalion's Race. They were made of stone and harder than the previous race, made of clay. The new mortals also better withstood stings of Pandora's miseries, which continued to torment them.