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1
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Whom does Odysseus NOT see in the Underworld?

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Hector

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2
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Zetes and Calais were the sons of

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Boreas

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3
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Who was the father of Achilles?

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Peleus

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4
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Daughter of Zeus was the goddess of Truth?

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Aletheia

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Who was the daughter of Zeus and Leda?

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Helen

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King tried to trick Zeus into eating human flesh, turned into a wolf?

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Lycaon

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7
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Gave an unwanted opinion in a musical contest, given donkey ears

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Midas

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8
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What couple died at the same time?

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Baucis and Philemon

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9
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What animal did Zeus turn into when wooing Europa?

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Cow

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10
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What maiden believed herself to be married to a monster?

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Psyche

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11
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Whose blood turned mulberry fruit from white to red?

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Thisbe

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12
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Once loved by Apollo, was given the gift of prophecy

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Cassandra

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13
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The Hellespont was named for the sister of

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Phrixus

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14
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What did Aeneas get in order to enter underworld with the Sybil?

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Golden branch

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15
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Niobe turned into a rock angering —-

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Leto

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16
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Tortured with eternal hunger and thirst?

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Tantalus

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17
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What Titan is the father of the Hesperides and the Pleiades?

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Atlas

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18
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Who was the bridegroom of Pandora

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Epimetheus

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19
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Where was the home of the princess Andromeda

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Ethiopeia

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20
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Which Greek vied for but lost the armor of Achilles?

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Ajax

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21
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Which river in the underworld was the river of hate?

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Styx

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22
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Name the Furies

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Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone

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23
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What was the job of the Fate Atropos?

A

cutter

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24
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What were the Symplegades?

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clashing rocks

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25
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Alcides was the

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original name of Heracles

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26
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Whom did the goddess of the dawn love?

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Tithonus

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27
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Who was the young son of Hector and Andromache

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Astyanax

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28
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What did Sinis do to travelers?

A

tied them to two pine trees

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29
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Which god carried a thyrsus?

A

Dionysus

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30
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Which Greek god was known as Dis by the Romans?

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Pluto

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31
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By what name was Palaemon first known?

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Melicertes

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32
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Who was the only daughter of Perseus and Andromeda?

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Gorgophone

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33
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Walls of Thebes were built by what king using his special musics

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Amphion

34
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What was the name of Neoptolomus’ mother, daughter of Lycomedes?

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Deidameia

35
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What name did Demeter use at Eleusis?

A

Doso

36
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Only person saved by Hesione after Troy was sacked

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Podarces

37
Q

The Moliones were twins who killed —

A

Iphicles

38
Q

What’s in common between Mopsus, Manto and Melampus

A

Seers

39
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What’s in common between Achilles, Oenomaus, and Laomedon

A

owned divine horses

40
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Mother of Odysseus

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Anticlea

41
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Mother of Achilles

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Thetis

42
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Gave donkey ears to Midas

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Apollo

43
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Grace of Beauty

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Aglaia

44
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River of pain

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Acheron

45
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Other name of Podarces

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Priam

46
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The stretcher theif

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Procrustes

47
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Muse of dance

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Terpsichore

48
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Brother of Medea

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Absyrtus

49
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Last wife of Heracles

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Hebe

50
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Aurora’s love

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Tithonus

51
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Heracles means — of Hera

A

Glory

52
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Fate cut the thread of life

A

Atropos

53
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First Greek to die

A

Protesilaus

54
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The son-in-law of Priam who guided the Greeks to Troy:

A

Telephus

55
Q

. Where did Neoptolomus die?

A

Delphi

56
Q

Freed Zeus when Poseidon, Hera and Athena tried to overthrow him?

A

Briareus

57
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Which seer vanished into the earth after it was split open by Zeus

A

Amphiaraus

58
Q

Whats in common between Marpessa, Sinope, and Cumean Sibyl

A

Rejected advances of Apollo

59
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The herald who delivered the poisoned tunic to Heracles:

A

Lichas

60
Q

Into what did Dionysus turn the daughters of Minyas?

A

Bats

61
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Which Roman deity presided over the sowing of crops?

A

Janus

62
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Who raised Callisto’s son Arcas?

A

Maia

63
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One of his epithets was Smintheus:

A

Apollo

64
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The Trojan spy who betrayed Rhesus to Odysseus and Diomedes.

A

Dolon

65
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The constellation Cygnus

A

Leda

66
Q

What was the name of Almene’s attendant

A

Galanthis

67
Q

Daughter of Minos was banished to Libya after an affair with Apollo?

A

Acacallis

68
Q

Why did Odysseus return to Aeaea?

A

to bury Elpenor

69
Q

What’s in common between Asclepius, Nicomachus, Podaleirius

A

Related to Machaon

70
Q

Byblis fell in love with

A

Caunus

71
Q

defining characteristic of the Arimaspians

A

One Eye

72
Q

given immortality after marrying Circe?

A

Telemachus

73
Q

Forced to cary leaky buckets

A

Danaids

74
Q

Erato muse of

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Love poetry

75
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River of wailing

A

Cocyctus

76
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mother of monsters

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Echidna

77
Q

Aided paris in killing Achilles

A

Apollo

78
Q

What did meleager kill

A

the calydonian boar

79
Q

Where did Theseus abandon Ariadne

A

Naxos

80
Q

Who found Ariadne

A

Dionysus

81
Q

Parents of Agamemnon

A

Atreus and Aerope

82
Q

Turned into a Lion

A

Atalanta

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