Mythology 2023

Question 1

Who is the god of medicine in the Greek pantheon?

Answer 1

Asclepius

Question 2

What did Hera offer Paris in the Judgment of Paris?

Answer 2

to be a great king

Question 3

Odysseus pretended _______ in order to avoid fighting in the Trojan War.

Answer 3

to be insane

Question 4

In what book of the Odyssey does Odysseus go to the Underworld?

Answer 4

Book VI

Question 5

What gift does Telemachus decline from the king of Sparta in the Odyssey?

Answer 5

horses

Question 6

What bard tells the story of Ares, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus in the Odyssey?

Answer 6

Demodocus

Question 7

Where did the stone that Kronus vomited land?

Answer 7

Delphi

Question 8

Who is not a part of the second generation of Olympian gods?

Answer 8

Hephaestus

Question 9

What creature did Apollo kill at Delphi?

Answer 9

python

Question 10

______ killed Agamemnon for sacrificing ______.

Answer 10

Clytemnestra; Iphigenia

Question 11

Talos is known as an automaton made out of _____.

Answer 11

bronze

Question 12

What book of the Aeneid did Aeneas leave Carthage?

Answer 12

Book IV

Question 13

Who struck Zeus with an ax to cure his headache?

Answer 13

Hephaestus

Question 14

Uranus’ wife is _______.

Answer 14

Gaia

Question 15

Who does Zeus swallow to avoid the birth of a new son?

Answer 15

Metis

Question 16

. What Roman deity does Julius Caesar primary claim lineage from?

Answer 16

Venus

Question 17

Who was not invited to the wedding of Achilles’ parents?

Answer 17

Discordia

Question 18

. The Myrmidons come from ________.

Answer 18

ants

Question 19

Which Muse is associated with history?

Answer 19

Clio

Question 20

What were the followers of Bacchus called?

Answer 20

Maenads

Question 21

In the Iliad, Achilles organized funeral games after _______ died.

Answer 21

Patroklos

Question 22

Who sent the bull that was the Minotaur’s father?

Answer 22

Poseidon

Question 23

Who designed the labyrinth that imprisoned the Minotaur?

Answer 23

Daedalus

Question 24

Which god shares the same name in both the Greek and Roman pantheon?

Answer 24

Apollo

Question 25

What city-state did Oedipus become king of?

Answer 25

Thebes

Question 26

Who goes to the underworld for three months out of the year?

Answer 26

Persephone