Multiple Choice Flashcards
Who is Typhoeus?
Child of earth (Gea) and abyss (Tartarus)
What is the name of Hesoid’s poem that refers to creation
Theogony
Greek name for the divine power, the sky
Uranus
What did Cronus use to attack his father
Sickle
Where did Cronus imprison his children
In his stomach
What does Metis mean
Intelligence
What role did Hephaestos play in the birth of Metis child?
But Zeus in the head with an axe
Who is said to have created mankind
Prometheus
What was mankinds punishment for the theft of fire
Pandora - women
What gifts did Hermes give pandora
A jar
What are the 5 ages described by hesoid
1: gold: this was those who lived in the days of Cronus
2: silver: worse than first. Didn’t respect gods
3: bronze: worse than silver. Born from ash trees
4: heroes: better than bronze
5: iron: humans
Name of the Trojan prince Zeus was obsessed with
Ganymede
Inanna in Sumerian myth has the Greek equivalent of who?
Aphrodite, Athena
From Uranus (sky) and Gaea (earth) who were born
The titans
The most powerful Titans being…
Cronus and his sister/ wife Rhea
From rhea and Cronus came.
The twelve Olympians
Battle with the Titans is known as
Titanomachy
Who is typhoeus
Abyss.
Fights Zeus and almost wins but instead is beaten and banished to a volcano
Prometheus is known as?
The protector of mortals as well as the maker of mortals
Made the human ease by mixing earth and water
Apollo is in charge of..
Known as the God of prophecy as well as God of plague
Where did apollo dwell
Hyperboreans
Where was apollo born
Delos
What instrument does apollo play
Lyre
Cassandra is….
She was given the gift of prophecy from apollo but no one believed her
Who was the son of apollo and coronis
Asclepius
Who was the parents of apollo
The titaness Leto and Zeus
What is a common Greek symbol for Hermes
Small pillar or a pile of stones
Pan is half man and half what
Goat
Children of ares
Fear, harmony, panic and Eros
Apollos priestess is called
Pythia
Hermes stole who’s cattle
Apollos
Who is hermes mother
Main
What did pan represent
Guardian of flocks and herds but also the master of lies
Hermes’ duty was
To help travelling merchants but almost the messenger God
Who are ares parents
Zeus and Hera
What does ares do
Embodiment of war and battle
Who was ares in love with
Aphrodite
Athena is the mistress of
War
Artemis is the mistress of
Animals
Demeter is the
Mistress of wheat but also the mother of Persephone
Who revealed persephones abductor to Demeter
Helios
Who is demophoon
Son of Celus
What happened to demophoon that his mother found distressing
Went into fire
What did Demeter do to force Zeus into discussing Persephones situation
Stopped growing grain
Persephone ate what…
Pomegranate seed
Who is triptolemus
Taught by Demeter, about her secrets to growing grain
What does kore mean
Daughter
What ritual practise grew out of the myth of agdestis
Castration
What is associate with Dionysus
Figs, goats, dolphins, bulls, wine
Name of the play that shows the best evidence of Dionysus and where is it set
Bacchae, set in Thebes
Who are the parents of Dionysus
Semele and Zeus
Followers of Dionysus are called
Women: Bacchae
Men: satyr
What is the name of the pine cone staff that is a symbol of Dionysus
Thyrsus
Another name for Dionysus is?
Zagreus
What role did Minos, rhadamanthys and aeacus play in the underworld?
Judges of the dead. Decided if people went to heaven or hell
What was ixion’s crime
Tried to have sex with Hera
What is the ivory gate and gate of horns
Ivory: deceptive and false dreams
Horns: true dreams
Gilgamesh was the king of which city
Uruk
What was the response when Gilgamesh was kicked out of the city
Aruru fashioned an enemy for Gilgamesh known as Enkidu
Who was shamash and humbaba
Shamash: sun god
Humbaba: guardian of the Forrest
Who is perseus
In myth, Mycenae was founded by Perseus. Son of Zeus and Danae
Who is io
Zeus lusted over her. Priestess of Hera. Turned into a cow, tied to a tree and guarded by argus
Argus was killed by
Hermes
Heracles parents
Alcemena and amphitrgon
Why did Heracles go insane and what did he do to redeem himself
Killed his family, had to complete his 12 labours
Whom did Heracles have to serve in offer to atone for his crime
Euryuthaus
Which two women were turned into a nightingale and a swallow
Procne and philomela
Name of Theseus’ mother
Aethra
Name a feat of the young thesus
Lift up the heavy rock
Zeus came to Europa in the form of
A bull
What did Daedalus construct for pasiphae
He created a bull suit
Who are the parents of pasiphae
She’s the daughter of helius
Who was pasiphae married to
Minos
How were minators created
From sex between pasiphae and the bull
What did Minos throw into the sea and dare thesus to retrieve
A ring
What architectural structure was Daedalus responsible for
Labyrinth
What did Laius do to Oedipus’ feet
Nailed them together
What grew from the ground after Cadmus sowed the dragons teeth
Sparti - grown men
What prophecy did the Delphic priestess give to the young Oedipus
Marry his mother and kill his father
What did Oedipus do when he found his mother hanging in their bedroom
Blinded himself
How did eteocles die
His brother, polynice killed him in the battle of Thebes
Who was rescued by the magic ram
Helle and phyxes
What was Jason’s recognition symbol?
One sandal
What task supposedly lead Jason to his death
Obtaining the Golden Fleece
Name of Jason’s ship
Argo
Argonauts include
Heracles and Orpheus and castor
Zeus appeared to lead in what form
Swan
Who is Medea
Witch who marries Jason
What did eris do at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Threw in the golden apple. Who was wanted by Athena, Aphrodite and Hera
Who are the Eumenides
Furies turned good
Why did Ajax kill himself
Because he didn’t get archillies armour
Who is polyphemus
A cyclops from the odyssey
Who’s Circe
Daughter of helius, enchantress who entertained Odysseus for years on her island
Asclepius was the god of what
Medicine
