Mythology Flashcards
The Oracle of Delphi was the mouthpiece of which god/goddess?
Apollo
With Athena’s help, __________ tamed Pegasus?
Bellerophon
How many years did it take Odysseus to return to Ithaca from Troy?
10 Years
Which idiot tried to fly to Mt. Olympus?
Bellerophon
Who killed the Caledonian Boar
Meleager
Who was the first criminal killed by Theseus on his way to Athens?
Periphetes, the golden club bearer (would beat people with his golden club)
Which cousin of Heracles assigned him his labors?
Eurystheus
Where was Oedipus buried?
Colonus
Who was the second greatest fighter among the Greeks in the Trojan War?
Ajax the Greater
How many years did Calypso keep Odysseus on Ogygia?
7 years
Jason divorced Medea in order to marry which princess of Corinth?
Glauce
What was the name of the river of fire in the Underworld?
Phlegethon
Tantalus served his son, Pelops, to the gods and was punished with what punishment in the underworld?
eternal hunger and thirst
Electra, the sister of Orestes, married what man?
Pylades
How many ships sailed with Odysseus from Troy?
12 Ships
What was another name for the Furies?
Eumenides
Furies were born from the blood of which titian?
Ouranos
The son of Theseus and Phaedra who fought at Troy and later married Phyllis was?
Acamas
Erato the muse of?
love poetry
How did Meleager die?
The stick that represented his life was burned.
Who killed Meleager?
His Mother
Which form did Zeus take to rape Callisto?
His daughter, Artemis
Who married the founder of Thebes, Cadmus, and was later cursed to turn into a snake with him?
Harmonia (daughter of Aphrodite and Ares who gave up her immortality for him) (she also had a cursed necklace as a marriage gift from a jealous Hephaestus)
If Mount Olympus was the gods’ mountain, what was the Titans’ mountain?
Mount Othrys
Where did Daedalus land after his flight?
Sicily
Who killed Agamemnon?
His wife, Clytemnestra
What daughter of Tantalus turned to stone after she badmouthed Leto, which resulted in Apollo and Artemis killing her 14 children?
Niobe
Who did the hero, Theseus, meet on his journey to Athens who beat people with a golden club?
Sinus
What innkeeper, defeated by Theseus, made you fit your bed?
Procrustes
What king wrestler, defeated by Theseus, would wrestle any visitors to death?
Cercyon
Who made you wash his feet then hurled you off a cliff to a giant, man-eating tortoise? (Hint: He was killed by Theseus)
Sciron
What did Theseus dispatch after he defeated Sinis?
Crommyonian sow (or boar)
What two labors of Heracles didn’t count
The slaying of the Lernaean Hydra (helped by nephew and charioteer Iolaus) and the cleansing of the Augeas (Heracles accepted payment for this labor)
Where did Perseus and his mother (Danae) wash up?
Seriphos
What form has Zeus not taken to seduce someone; horse, ant, fish, swan, golden shower, another woman’s husband, a bull, a cuckoo, serpentine dragon, a satyr, or his daughter
Fish
How many people has Zeus… had children with?
At least 18, including Hera
