Myth 4 Flashcards
Father of Io
Inachus
How did Heracles repay Iolaus
Rejuvenation
Mother of Aphrodite ac. To Homer
Dione
Reared Hera
Oceanus and Tethys
Sent Alcmaeon to his death when asked for the necklace and robe of Harmonia
Callirrhoe
Daughter of Hyperion and Theia, mother of 50 daughters by Endymion
Selene
Fiance of Andromeda
Phineus
Son of Procne and Tereus
Itys
Fell in love with stepson and committed suicide
Phaedra
Roman name of Thanatos
Orcus
Roman woodland god, presides over plowmen and woodcutters
Sylvanus
What story did Hermes tell Argus
The invention of the Syrinx
What seer told Bellerophon to sleep in Athena’s temple?
Polyidus
Death of this son of Minos began the Athenian tribute to Crete
Androgeus
What ability did Poseidon give Mestra
Shape shifting
Mother of Cleobis and Biton
Cydippe
Repopulated his land from ants, son of Zeus and Aegina
Aeacus
Mercury married this mute nymph, sister of Juturna
Lara
Child of tantalus, threw himself into flames
Broteas
Taught Heracles to wrestle
Autolycus
Aphrodite caused her to perpetually be in love
Eos
Epithets, Dithyrambos, Eleutherios, and Enorches
Dionysus
Home of the sirens
Anthemoessa
Trained Achilles after Cherion
Phoenix, king of the Dolopians
Child of Iasion and Demeter, minor god of wealth
Plutus
Sent with the Argonaust to look after Meleager
Laocoon (2)
Attacked Herules and Geryon’s cattle
Ligurians
Who built the trojan horse
Epeus, son of Panopeus
Where did Venus give birth to Aeneas
Mt. ida
Celaeno is the name of a member of what two groups
Harpies and Pleiades
Who told Prometheus that Thetis would bear a child greater than his father?
Themis
Who killed Paris?
Philoctetes
Idmon and Adonis have what in common?
Killed by boars
Only son of Polydorus and Nycteis, king of Thebes
Labdacus
Epithet of Juno, the childbearer
Lucina
Libyan god Ammon was associated with what roman god
Jupiter
Where did King Celeus rule with Metaneira
Elusis
Son of Priam and Hecuba, given Helen after Paris’ death
Deiphobus
Faithful companion of Helen
Adraste
Mother of Iris and the Harpies
Electra
grandparents of Alcmena
Perseus and Andromeda
Cadmus’ father
Agenor
Father of Lelex and Agenor
Belus
Changed into a rooster
Alectryon
Daughter of Icarius
Erigone
Naming of Athens took place under whose reign
Cecrops
Gave Odysseus the bow of Eurytus, this man’s father
Iphitus
Mother of the Sirens by Acheleous
Melpomene or Terpsichore
Menelaus was called from sparta to Crete to attnd the funeral of grandfather
Catreus
Cadmus dedicated an altar under the name of Onca to which deity
Athena
Son of Nestor
Peisistratus
Mother of two judges in the underworld
Eropa
Death of this son of Zeus caused a bloody rain
Sarpedon
Man almost won the throne of Mycenae
Thyestes
What was illegal on Delos
to be born or to die
Into what river did Phaethon fall
Eridanus
What three mountains were piled up so that Otis and Ephialites could reach the gods
Olympus, Ossa, Pelion
Agammemnon is rebuked for cowardice by whom in bk 9
Diomedes
Wandering rocks, by the sirens island
Planctae
Father of Arachne
Idmon
Married Hyperion
Theia
Married a mortal, pleides
Merope
Lyaeus epithet of
Dionysus
Nymph compainons of Artemeis
Pleiads
Who stole some of the cattle of Geryon from hercules
Cacus
The god of criticim, faultfinding, mockery and pleasantry, banned from Olympus
Momus
Cleared Athens of wolves, epithet is Lycius
Apollo
One of the Numina, half man, half goat
Silvanus
Virgin, Assisted turnus against Aeneas,
Camilla
Wife of Nereus
Doris
Follower of Diana, to escape Alpheus
Arethusa
Rhea or Cybele’s Ohrygian priests
Corybantes
Sacred shield of Mars, given to the
Salii
Sister of Turnus
Juturna
Son of Aesclepias, surgion of the Trojans
Podealerius
Surgeon of the greeks
Machaon
Apollo’s beekeeper son
Aristaeus
Fatehr of Marpessa
Evenus
Son of Theseus, falsely accused by stepmother
Hippolytus
Was warned to betware a man wearing one sandal
Pelias
Clytemnestra’s first husband
Tantalus
city of the Cicones, Odysseus obtained the wine here
Ismarus
Capital of Colchis
Aea
Youngest of Odysseus’s crew
Elpenor
Meliae
Ash tree nymphs
King of Calydon
Oeneus
Eldest daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
Styx
Kililed Amycus
Pollux
How did Aga. Convince Iphigenia to come to Aulis to be sacrificed
He said she would marry achilles
Son of nestor, killed by memnon
Antilocus
Sisters of Phaethon transformed into
Poplars
Mother of Antiope
Polyxo
homeland of Calchas
Megara
Lyric poetry
Euterpe
Seamonster mate of Phorcys, daughter of Pontus and Ge
Ceto