Mythology 3

Question 1

a giant bronze statue of Apollo built on Rhodes in about 292–280 bc ; destroyed by an earthquake in 225 bc ; one of the Seven Wonders of the World

Answer 1

Colossus of Rhodes

Question 2

the Roman god of love, represented as a winged boy with a bow and arrow

Answer 2

Cupid / Eros

Question 3

a member of a family of giants having a single round eye in the middle of the forehead

Answer 3

Cyclopes

Question 4

an Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and his son Icarus to escape from Crete

Answer 4

Daedalus

Question 5

the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the Ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity

Answer 5

Delphic Oracle

Question 6

a queen of Carthage who killed herself when abandoned by Aeneas; found Carthage and became its queen

Answer 6

Dido

Question 7

daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, responsible for the murder of her mother and her mother’s lover; used the help of her brother Orestes

Answer 7

Electra

Question 8

the place where souls of the good went after death: a peaceful and beautiful region, full of meadows, groves, sunlight, and fresh air

Answer 8

Elysian Fields

Question 9

a young man kept forever youthful through eternal sleep and loved by Selene

Answer 9

Endymion

Question 10

the winged goddess of the dawn, the daughter of Hyperion

Answer 10

Eos / Aurora

Question 11

the three goddesses who control the destinies of the lives of man, which are likened to skeins of thread that they spin, measure out, and at last cutq

Answer 11

Fates

Question 12

the snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, usually three in number, who pursued unpunished criminals

Answer 12

Furies / Eumenides

Question 13

a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes’s daughter, Medea

Answer 13

Golden Fleece

Question 14

any of three sister monsters commonly represented as having snakes for hair, wings, brazen claws, and eyes that turned anyone looking into them to stone

Answer 14

Gorgons

Question 15

the three goddesses of grace, beauty, adornment, mirth, festivity, dance and song; attendants of the goddesses Aphrodite and Hera

Answer 15

Graces

Question 16

a ravenous, filthy monster having a woman’s head and a bird’s body; in the story of Jason, they steal or spoil an old blind man’s food, leaving a terrible odor behind them

Answer 16

Harpies

Question 17

the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles

Answer 17

Hector

Question 18

the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War

Answer 18

Helen of Troy

Question 19

a celebrated hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, possessing exceptional strength: among his many adventures were the twelve labors for his cousin Eurystheus, performed in order to gain immortality

Answer 19

Hercules

Question 20

a water or marsh serpent with nine heads, each of which, if cut off, grew back as two; Hercules killed this serpent by cauterizing the necks as he cut off the heads

Answer 20

Hydra

Question 21

the son of Daedalus, with whom he escaped from Crete, flying with wings made of wax and feathers; heedless of his father’s warning he flew too near the sun, causing the wax to melt, and fell into the Aegean and drowned

Answer 21

Icarus

Question 22

a woman who, being loved by Zeus, was transformed into a white heifer and was, at the wish of Hera, first guarded by Argus and later pursued through the world by a gadfly until she reached Egypt, where she resumed her true shape

Answer 22

Io

Question 23

the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became

Answer 23

Iphigenia

Question 24

an ancient Roman god of doorways, of beginnings, and of the rising and setting of the sun, usually represented as having one head with two bearded faces back to back, looking in opposite directions

Answer 24

Janus