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1
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Who was the wife of Cronos?

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Rhea

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Who was the first god?

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Uranus

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What was Uranus’ prophecy?

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That one of Cronos’ sons will dethrone him

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What did Cronos do to his children?

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He ate them

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Who were the children of Cronos?

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Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon (and Zeus)

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How did Rhea trick Cronos?

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She faked a rock as her baby, and then once Zeus grew up she got Zeus to be Cronos’ cupbearer, then made a drink that would make Cronos vomit

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What monsters were on Cronos’ side and what monsters were on Zeus’ side?

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The Titans helped Cronos and the Cyclopes and hundred hand Ones helped Zeus

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How did Zeus defeat Cronos?

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His Ones were waiting in ambush at the top of a mountain, then threw boulders at the Titans

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Where do we get the word panic?

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From the goat God pan shouting for joy after Cronos lost

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What natural events may the Zeus myth explain?

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Earthquakes and volcanoes

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Who did Zeus marry?

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Hera

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12
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What was Hera the queen of?

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Intriguers

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How did Hera and the others trick Zues

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They drugged his drink and strapped him to a table

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Who saved Zeus from being trapped?

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The Hundred handed Briareus

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What was Hera’s punishment?

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Zeus chained Hera with gold chains in the sky, but they promised to be better to each other and Zeus let her go

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Who is Athene’s mother?

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Metis, a Titan

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17
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How was Athene born?

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Out of Zeus’ head

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What did Athene teach humans to do?

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The ax, plow, ox-yoke, wheel, sail, and the loom (spinning and weaving)

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Who was Athene a mistress of?

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Strategy

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20
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What town is named after Athene?

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Athens

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21
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Who claimed she could weave better than Athene?

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Arachne

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22
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What does Arachne give Athene

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A cloak

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23
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What happened when Athene was clearly beating Arachne

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Arachne hung herself

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What did Athene do to the hanging Arachne

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She turned her into a spider (arachnids)

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Why did Posiedon want to rule the sea?

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It was the best place for adventures and secrets

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Who was Posiedons first wife, and what was her son?

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Thetis, and Archilles

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What animals did Posiedon create?

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Jellyfish, octopi, squid, swordfish, blowfish, sea cow, horses (zebra, giraffes, donkeys)

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28
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For whom did Posiedon make a horse

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Demeter

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Why do the dead have pennies put under their tounges

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So the dead could pay their fare for the ferry over the river Styx

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30
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Who guarded the wall surrounding Tartarus?

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Cereberus, the three headed dog

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What two punishments do those who offended the gods suffer?

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Eternally pushing a boulder up a hill, eternal thirst in a river but the water goes away when you try to drink

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32
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Where would those who pleased the gods go in death?

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Elysian Fields

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33
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Who were the three hags in the underworld?

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Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera

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34
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What does Demeter mean?

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Barley mother

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35
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Who did we get the world cereal from

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Demeter, because she is also called Ceres

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36
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What was the name of Demeters daughter?

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Persephone

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37
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What happened when Persephone went to paint flowers?

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She pulled up a weird bush and was kidnapped by Hades

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38
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Who finds Demeter crying, and how does he get his revenge?

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A boy, who turns into a lizard and is eaten by a bird. He tells on Persephone for eating

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39
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Why does Zeus side with Hades?

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Hades gave him a new lightning bolt

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40
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What happens when Zeus refuses to get Persephone back

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The earth goes under a drought

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41
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What does Zeus compromise with Demeter?

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That as long as Persephone didn’t eat anything, he would get her back

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42
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What did Persephone eat? What was her punishment?

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Six pomegranate seeds, and so she has to stay with Hades for six months of the year

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43
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What does the Persephone myth explain

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Why we have winter for six months a year

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44
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Who gave birth to Artemis and Apollo?

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Leto, a nymph

45
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What presents did Zeus give Apollo

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A golden bow and quiver, and a gold chariot drivin by gold ponies

46
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Who is the father of Zeus?

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Cronos

47
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What presents did Artemis want?

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Eternal chastity, a silver bow and arrow, a deerskin tunic, fifty ocean nymphs, twenty five wood nymphs, a pack of hounds, the mountains, a city, and many names

48
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Who did Artemis get her hounds from?

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Pan

49
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What were the names of Artemis?

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Goddess of the moon, maiden of the silver bow, lady of the wild things, the huntress, and the maiden

50
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What was the name of the nymph that is now Ursa Major?

A

Callisto

51
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Who was the most beautiful of the gods?

A

Apollo

52
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Who was the God of the sun?

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Apollo

53
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What was the first folly that Apollo did, and why was it bad?

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He killed Python, but it was on sacred ground

54
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Who was the satyr that Apollo was jealous of?

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Marsyas

55
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What instrument did the satyr play and what did Apollo play in the competition?

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Marsyas played the flute and Apollo played the lyre

56
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How did Apollo cheat to win the music competition?

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He told that the player had to play with their instrument upside down, which you can’t do with a flute but you can do to a lyre

57
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What did Apollo do to marsyas?

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He flayed him alive and nailed his skin to a tree, over a river, which is why that river is called Marsyas river

58
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What were apollos sons, and what were their mothers?

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Corybantes - Thalia
Aristeus- Cyrene
Amphissus- Dryope
Asclepius - Coronis

59
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What did the corybantes do?

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They danced

60
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What did Aristeus teach man?

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Bee keeping, olive culture, and cheese making

61
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What did Amphissus do?

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He founded cities and built temples,

62
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Who was Apollo’s most famous son, and what did he do?

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Asclepius, Doctor

63
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Why did Asclepius get into trouble?

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Because he stole the dead from Hades by curing them

64
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What did Aphrodite do to Apollo?

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She made him fall in love with a nymph named Daphne, but made Daphne indifferent to Apollo

65
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What do laurel trees whisper to questioning losers?

A

I don’t know

66
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What did Hermes steal five minutes after birth?

A

A herd of Apollos cows

67
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Who was with Hermes when Apollo found him?

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A titaness named Maia.

68
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What relation does Hermes have to Apollo?

A

Half brother

69
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What instruments did Hermes invent?

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The lyre and the panflute

70
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What did Hermes want in return for giving Apollo his instruments?

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For the lyre he took apollos cow, for the panflute he took apollos golden staff, and for making Apollo the god of music he wanted augury

71
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What was Hermes to the gods, and what helped him do his job?

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He was the gods messenger, with winged shoes

72
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Why did Hera throw Hephaestus off my Olympus?

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Because he was ugly

73
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Who found Hephaestus on the coast?

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Thetis, a nymph, who thought he was a tadpole

74
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Why did Hera want Hephaestus again?

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She saw the necklace Thetis was wearing, and when she said it was made by a lost crippled boy she knew it was Hephaestus

75
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What God was Hephaestus, where did he work, and who helped him?

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He was the smith God, he worked in the mountains, and was helped by the Cyclopes

76
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Who is the god of love and beauty?

A

Aphrodite

77
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How was Aphrodite born?

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She rose from the sea foam made by the dead Oranos/Uranus

78
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What happened when Aphrodite went to Olympus?

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The gods decided she must be married

79
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What did the gods say they would give Aphrodite?

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Poseidon - variety, secrets
riches
Apollo - gold thrown and crown, gold chariot with swans, and muses
Hermes - the dead's stories
Hephaestus - he worked late
80
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Who did Aphrodite marry?

A

Hephaestus

81
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Who were perseus’ grandfathers?

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Cronos and King Acrisius

82
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Who was perseus’ mother?

A

Danae

83
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How did Acrisius stop Danae from having a son? Why didn’t it work?

A

He locked her in a tall bronze tower, and it didn’t work because Zeus came to Danae

84
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What does Perseus mean?

A

Avenger

85
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What did king Acrisius do when he found Danae with a baby?

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He put them in a wood boat and set them off to sea

86
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Who saved Danae and Perseus?

A

A fisherman named dictys

87
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Who was the king of the fishing village?

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King polydectes

88
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Why is medusa a monster?

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She met Poseidon in a temple of Athene, so Athene turned her into a monster with bulging eyes, black tongue, yellow fangs, brass claws, and snakes for hair

89
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What happened to anyone who looked at medusa?

A

They were turned to stone because she was so ugly

90
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What was the name of the fishing island?

A

Sephiros

91
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Why did Perseus offer the head of medusa to king polydectes?

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He didn’t have anything else to give him because they just lived off of what the king gave them

92
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Which God helps persius, and how?

A

Hermes, and he gave him winged sandals and directions to the gray sisters

93
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What two things did the gray sisters only have one of?

A

An eye and a tooth

94
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Who are the nymphs of the west?

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They guard the golden apple tree

95
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What did the nymphs of the west give persius?

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A polished bronze shield (bright as a mirror) , a sword, and a cap of darkness (like an invisibility cloak)

96
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What was the land where the gorgon sisters dwelt?

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The land of the hyperboreans

97
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How did persius kill medusa?

A

He used the shield to look at her, and beheaded her with the sword

98
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Why is there a mountain called Mt.Atlas?

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Atlas was a Titan holding up the sky, but didn’t like persius, and tried to kill him, but persius turned atlas to stone

99
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Who did persius marry, and why?

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He married andromeda, because he saved her from a sea monster

100
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How does persius kill king polydectes and King Acrisius?

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He told his mother to close her eyes, and showed everyone else medusa’s head, turning them to stone

101
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What did persius do with his equipment and medusas head?

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He gave the shield to Athene, and the cap to Hermes. He kept the sword and the sandals. He threw medusas head in the sea, making coral.

102
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What is the name of Poseidon’s wife?

A

Amphitrite

103
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Who was punished to eternally push a boulder up a hill and who to have eternal thirst but can’t drink?

A

Sisyphus - Boulder

Tantalus - thirst

104
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What were the furies called?

A

The eumenides or the kindly ones

105
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What is the law that says you must stay there if you ate something?

A

The Law of Abode

106
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What island did Leto escape Python?

A

Delos

107
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What was the name of the leader of the Cyclopes?

A

Brontes

108
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What were the first four things Artemis shot?

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A pine tree, an olive tree, a wild boar, and all the men in a city of unjust men

109
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What was the name of the man that saw Artemis bathing?

A

Actaeon

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