Mythology 4

Question 1

the hero who led the Argonauts in quest of the Golden Fleece; he became the husband of Medea, whom he later abandoned for Glauce

Answer 1

Jason

Question 2

the decision by Paris to award Aphrodite the golden apple of discord competed for by Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera

Answer 2

Judgment of Paris

Question 3

a vast maze built in Crete by Daedalus, at the command of King Minos, to house the Minotaur

Answer 3

Labyrinth

Question 4

a priest of Apollo at Troy who warned the Trojans against the wooden horse left by the Greeks; killed with his twin sons by two sea serpents

Answer 4

Laocoon

Question 5

a queen of Sparta who was the mother of Helen and Pollux by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a swan

Answer 5

Leda

Question 6

a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it

Answer 6

Lethe

Question 7

a sorceress who fell in love with Jason and helped him obtain the Golden Fleece; when Jason abandoned her to marry another woman, she took revenge by brutally murdering his young bride as well as the children she had borne him

Answer 7

Medea

Question 8

a mortal woman who was transformed by Athena into one of the three Gorgons; her appearance was so hideous that those who looked directly at her were turned to stone. Perseus eventually slew her

Answer 8

Medusa

Question 9

a king of Phrygia given the power by Dionysus of turning everything he touched to gold

Answer 9

Midas

Question 10

a son of Hypnos and the god of dreams

Answer 10

Morpheus

Question 11

any of nine sister goddesses, each of whom was regarded as the protectress of a different art or science; daughter of Mnemosyne

Answer 11

Muses

Question 12

a beautiful youth who fell in love with his reflection in a pool and pined away, becoming the flower that bears his name

Answer 12

Narcissus

Question 13

the goddess of retribution and vengeance

Answer 13

Nemesis

Question 14

female spirits who lived in forests, bodies of water, and other places outdoors

Answer 14

Nymphs

Question 15

one of the foremost of the Greek heroes at the siege of Troy, noted for his courage and ingenuity; his return to his kingdom of Ithaca was fraught with adventures in which he lost all his companions and he was acknowledged by his wife Penelope only after killing her suitors

Answer 15

Odysseus

Question 16

the highest mountain in Greece; the dwelling place of the greater gods

Answer 16

Olympus

Question 17

the gods of ancient Greece

Answer 17

Olympians

Question 18

the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia: he avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing Clytemenestra and her lover, Aegisthus, then was pursued by the Furies until saved by Athena

Answer 18

Orestes

Question 19

Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet and Eurydice his wife; he could charm all living things and even stones with his music, attempted to retrieve Eurydice from the underworld; died at the hands of those who could not hear his divine music

Answer 19

Orpheus and Eurydice

Question 20

the ancient Greek god of forests, pastures, flocks, and shepherds, represented with the head, chest, and arms of a man and the legs and sometimes the horns and ears of a goat

Answer 20

Pan

Question 21

mountain in Greece, symbolic of poetry; sacred to Apollo and the Muses

Answer 21

Parnassus

Question 22

a winged horse, created from the blood of Medusa, that opened the spring of Hippocrene with a stroke of its hoof, and that carried Bellerophon in his attack on the Chimera

Answer 22

Pegasus

Question 23

a box that Zeus gave to Pandora, the first woman, with strict instructions that she not open it; Pandora’s curiosity soon got the better of her, and she opened the box; all the evils and miseries of the world flew out to afflict mankind

Answer 23

Pandora’s Box

Question 24

the wife of Odysseus, who remained true to him during his long absence despite the importunities of many suitors

Answer 24

Penelope

Question 25

a son of Zeus and Danaë, who with Athena’s help slew the Gorgon Medusa and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster

Answer 25

Perseus