Mythology Flashcards
Whom does Odysseus NOT see in the Underworld?
Hector
Zetes and Calais were the sons of
Boreas
Who was the father of Achilles?
Peleus
Daughter of Zeus was the goddess of Truth?
Aletheia
Who was the daughter of Zeus and Leda?
Helen
King tried to trick Zeus into eating human flesh, turned into a wolf?
Lycaon
Gave an unwanted opinion in a musical contest, given donkey ears
Midas
What couple died at the same time?
Baucis and Philemon
What animal did Zeus turn into when wooing Europa?
Cow
What maiden believed herself to be married to a monster?
Psyche
Whose blood turned mulberry fruit from white to red?
Thisbe
Once loved by Apollo, was given the gift of prophecy
Cassandra
The Hellespont was named for the sister of
Phrixus
What did Aeneas get in order to enter underworld with the Sybil?
Golden branch
Niobe turned into a rock angering —-
Leto
Tortured with eternal hunger and thirst?
Tantalus
What Titan is the father of the Hesperides and the Pleiades?
Atlas
Who was the bridegroom of Pandora
Epimetheus
Where was the home of the princess Andromeda
Ethiopeia
Which Greek vied for but lost the armor of Achilles?
Ajax
Which river in the underworld was the river of hate?
Styx
Name the Furies
Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone
What was the job of the Fate Atropos?
cutter
What were the Symplegades?
clashing rocks
Alcides was the
original name of Heracles
Whom did the goddess of the dawn love?
Tithonus
Who was the young son of Hector and Andromache
Astyanax
What did Sinis do to travelers?
tied them to two pine trees
Which god carried a thyrsus?
Dionysus
Which Greek god was known as Dis by the Romans?
Pluto
By what name was Palaemon first known?
Melicertes
Who was the only daughter of Perseus and Andromeda?
Gorgophone
Walls of Thebes were built by what king using his special musics
Amphion
What was the name of Neoptolomus’ mother, daughter of Lycomedes?
Deidameia
What name did Demeter use at Eleusis?
Doso
Only person saved by Hesione after Troy was sacked
Podarces
The Moliones were twins who killed —
Iphicles
What’s in common between Mopsus, Manto and Melampus
Seers
What’s in common between Achilles, Oenomaus, and Laomedon
owned divine horses
Mother of Odysseus
Anticlea
Mother of Achilles
Thetis
Gave donkey ears to Midas
Apollo
Grace of Beauty
Aglaia
River of pain
Acheron
Other name of Podarces
Priam
The stretcher theif
Procrustes
Muse of dance
Terpsichore
Brother of Medea
Absyrtus
Last wife of Heracles
Hebe
Aurora’s love
Tithonus
Heracles means — of Hera
Glory
Fate cut the thread of life
Atropos
First Greek to die
Protesilaus
The son-in-law of Priam who guided the Greeks to Troy:
Telephus
. Where did Neoptolomus die?
Delphi
Freed Zeus when Poseidon, Hera and Athena tried to overthrow him?
Briareus
Which seer vanished into the earth after it was split open by Zeus
Amphiaraus
Whats in common between Marpessa, Sinope, and Cumean Sibyl
Rejected advances of Apollo
The herald who delivered the poisoned tunic to Heracles:
Lichas
Into what did Dionysus turn the daughters of Minyas?
Bats
Which Roman deity presided over the sowing of crops?
Janus
Who raised Callisto’s son Arcas?
Maia
One of his epithets was Smintheus:
Apollo
The Trojan spy who betrayed Rhesus to Odysseus and Diomedes.
Dolon
The constellation Cygnus
Leda
What was the name of Almene’s attendant
Galanthis
Daughter of Minos was banished to Libya after an affair with Apollo?
Acacallis
Why did Odysseus return to Aeaea?
to bury Elpenor
What’s in common between Asclepius, Nicomachus, Podaleirius
Related to Machaon
Byblis fell in love with
Caunus
defining characteristic of the Arimaspians
One Eye
given immortality after marrying Circe?
Telemachus
Forced to cary leaky buckets
Danaids
Erato muse of
Love poetry
River of wailing
Cocyctus
mother of monsters
Echidna
Aided paris in killing Achilles
Apollo
What did meleager kill
the calydonian boar
Where did Theseus abandon Ariadne
Naxos
Who found Ariadne
Dionysus
Parents of Agamemnon
Atreus and Aerope
Turned into a Lion
Atalanta
