Myth 2 Flashcards
Whom did Heracles ask to build funeral pyre
Philoctetes
Raised Jason
Chiron
Sent Perseus on Quest
Polydectes
Who aked jason to yoke fire breathing bulls
Aeetes
Who poisoned Heracles with his blood
Nessus
What’s in common- Cassandra, Helenus, Paris
Children of Priam and Hecuba
Fastest runner among the greeks
Ajax the Lesser
Offspring of Demeter and Poseidon
Ariaon
Founded Padua, spared by Greeks
Antenor
Did not pay for building of walls by Poseidon and Apollo
Laomedon
What’s in common- Ceyx, Tereus, Nisus
Turned into birds
Trojan, Zeus’s cup bearer
Ganymede
Harpy, gave birth to horses
Podarges
What was the name of Achilles’s horses?
Xanthus and Balius
Who was cursed by Ceres with hunger
Erysichthon
Erysichthon was forced to sell what daughter for food
Mestra
Refused to relinquish the rule of Thebes to his brother
Eteocles
Persuaded by Athena, shot Menelaus, broke treated
Pandarus
Where did leucippus die by Daphne
Ladon River
Father in law of Heracles
Oeneus
Turned the crow black
Apollo
False dreams passed through this gate
Ivory
Guarded the Titans in Tartarus
Hecatonchires
“Hounds of Zeus”
Harpies
** turned the peasants of ** into **because they would not let her drink
Leto, Lycia, Frogs
Who’s star is the dimmest of the Pleiades?
Merope
Raised dead, Zeus killed
Asclepius
On what Mt. did Actaeon find Artemis
Cithaeron
Pretended to be Zeus, killed
Salmoneus
Demeter anoited this child with Ambrosia and a fire
Demophoon
Dog of Cephalus
Laelaps
Killed son, Learchus after being driven mad by Hera
Athamas
Roman equivalent of Rhea
Ops
Clashing Rocks
Symplegades
Orestes’ Parents
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
Daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta
Ismene
Orthrus’s owner
Geryon
Brother of Medea, murdered
Absyrtus
Birth name of Heracles
Alcides
Wives of Heracles
Megara, Deianeira, Hebe
Mortal parents of Theseus
Aethra and Aegeus
Other Greek name of Proserpina
Kore
Roman godess of the underworld
Libitina
Graces
Aglaia, Euphrosyne, Thalia
What’s in common- Iphis, Caeneus, Tiresias
Changed gender
Armor bearer of Achilles
Patroclus
Tricked the Trojans into bringing the horse in
Sinon
Thrown to death from the walls
Astyanax
Assaulted cassandra in the temple of Athena
Ajax of Locris
Grandfather of the Heraclids
King Thespius
Roman god of the countryside
liber
Could change into a woodpecker
Picus, child of Saturnus
Actaeon was a member of the house of
Thebes
What’s in common- Niobe, Broteas, Pelops
Children of Tantalus
Giant, wrestled with Heracles
Antaeus
With whose rights was the Syrinx associated
Dionysus
What was the souce of Nisus’ power
Purple lock of hair
What did Laius do to curse his house?
He kidnapped Chrysippus
Parents of Oedipus
Laius and Jocasta
Under whose tent did Odysseus hide gold
Palamedes
Cratus is the personification of
Strength
Parents of Nereus
Gaia and Pontus
Godess called Cynthia
Artemis
Orestes was pursued by what
Furies
Cadmus’s sister
Europa
Usurped the throne of Iolcus from Aeson
Pelias
Grace of good cheer
Thalia
Where were Augeas’s stables?
at Elis
What creatures did both Heracles and Theseus fight
Centaurs
Two brothers who died in the harness of their mother’s chariot
Cleobis and Biton
The Charities is another name for
Graces
The nymph Galatea preferred — to — as a lover
Acis to Polyphemus
The Danaids murdered the sons of —
Aegyptus
What’s in common- Odysseus, Jason, Perseus
Helped by Athena
Sthenoboea fell in love with —
Bellerophon
Husband of Sthenoboea, purified Bellerophon of murder
King Proteus
What other lion did Hercules kill
Thespian lion
Prince of— given dragons by Demeter
Eleusis, Triptolemus
Tantalus’ great crime is in the house of
Mycenae
Kills Odysseus
Telegonus
Muse sang in ocmpetition with the Pierides
Calliope
Child of Apollo, abandoned by Creusa
Ion
Cephalus accidentally kills
Procris
Saved by Venus after trying to reach the Sirens
Butes
Saved the Greeks from Hector, when Achilles refused to fight
Patroclus
Myrtilus murdered by
Pelops
