Love Stories Flashcards
What Cypriot sculptor was a notorious woman-hater and resolved to fashion his perfect woman?
Pygmalion
What fruit changes its shade from white to red/purple after it was dyed with the blood of Pyramus and Thisbe?
Mulberry
Following their wedding, Hippomenes and Atalanta end up at a temple sacred to what goddess?
Cybele/Magna Mater
What Calydonian king and father of Meleager forgot to honor Artemis at a banquet?
Oeneus
Whose head flows down the river Hebrus all the way to Lesbos after he was mauled by the Maenads?
Orpheus
What son of Apollo and Cyrene spots Eurydice preparing for her wedding to Orpheus and chases her through the forest?
Aristaeus
Into what types of tree did Baucis & Philemon transform upon their death?
Oak & Linden
Who was the first of the hunters to wound the Calydonian Boar?
Atalanta
What river god rescues his daughter Daphne from Apollo by turning her into a laurel tree?
Pene(i)us
By throwing golden apples way off track, who is finally able to defeat Atalanta in a race and become her husband?
Hippomenes/Melanion
What kind of animal scares away Thisbe from King Ninus’s tomb and bloodies up her veil?
Lion(ess)
For what physical ability is Atalanta best known?
Speed
After Atalanta delivers the first strike, what prince ultimately kills the Calydonian Boar?
Meleager
What group of sisters find Orpheus’s body and bury him in Pieria?
Muses
To whom does Meleager offer the spoils of the Calydonian boar hunt?
Atalanta
What king is so upset that Atalanta was born a girl that he abandons his daughter on a mountainside?
Iasus/Schoeneus
Into what type of tree did Peneus transform his daughter Daphne?
Laurel
Because Oeneus had forgotten to sacrifice to her, what animal did Artemis send to ravage the country of Calydon?
(Calydonian) Boar
While she was being chased by Aristaeus the beekeeper, how did Eurydice die?
Snake bite
What items does Aphrodite give to Hippomenes to help him defeat Atalanta in the footrace?
(Three) Golden Apples
What occupation did Aristaeus have?
Beekeeper
What name is given to the son of Pygmalion & Galatea?
Paphos
What name did Pygmalion give to his statue of his perfect woman?
Galatea
In what city did Pyramus and Thisbe live?
Ninus
What man resolves himself to marry Atalanta and visits Aphrodite for help?
Hippomenes/Melanion
What pair of lovers could only speak through a crack in the wall due to their feuding families?
Pyramus & Thisbe
Right after she gave birth to Meleager, what Calydonian queen is gifted a magic log by the Fates which is tied to her son’s life?
Althea
From what island did Pygmalion hail?
Cyprus
What group of Bacchic worshippers spot the depressed Orpheus and rip him to shreds?
Maenads
Because Meleager had killed her brothers Toxeus and Plexippus, what mother of Meleager kills her son by throwing the log into a fire?
Althea
What type of animal spots the infant Atalanta on a mountainside and nurses her back to health?
Bear
What Calydonian prince, the son of Oeneus and Althea, had his life tied to a log?
Meleager
Whose old couple’s hut was transformed into a temple after they demonstrated hospitality to Jupiter & Mercury?
Baucis & Philemon
To what goddess did Pygmalion pray for true love, only for her to give life to his statue Galatea?
Venus
Because Baucis & Philemon were the only citizens to help the disguised Jupiter & Mercury, what did Jupiter do to the rest of the town?
Flooded them
With what musical instrument does Orpheus charm Hades and Persephone?
Lyre
Because Hippomenes never properly thanked Aphrodite, he and Atalanta are transformed into what type of animal?
Lions
In order to test the hospitality of mortals, what two deities disguised as beggars and visited Phrygian citizens door-to-door until they reached Baucis & Philemon?
Jupiter & Mercury
What wish did Baucis & Philemon make to Jupiter & Mercury?
That one would not have to live without the other
At what king’s tomb (the late husband of the Babylonian queen Semiramis) did Pyramus and Thisbe agree to meet?
Ninus
Hades allows Eurydice to leave the Underworld with Orpheus under what one condition?
That Orpheus not look back at her
What nymph is shot with an arrow of lead, causing her to deeply hate Apollo?
Daphne
What would happen to anyone who lost to Atalanta in a footrace?
They would die and their skull is displayed on the racetrack
What Phrygian couple graciously welcomed 2 beggars into their home who turned out to be Jupiter and Mercury?
Baucis & Philemon
With what nymph does Orpheus fall in love?
Eurydice
Toxeus and Plexippus chastise what nephew of theirs for giving up the spoils of the Calydonian Boar hunt?
Meleager
Whose archery skills does Apollo ridicule for which he’s forced to love a nymph who will never love him back?
Eros (Cupid)
What muse of Epic Poetry is the mother of Orpheus by Apollo?
Calliope
