Mythology Amol Outline - Loves of Zeus

Question 1

Who was Zeus’s first wife?

Answer 1

Metis

Question 2

How did Metis help Zeus overthrow Cronos?

Answer 2

She gave him an emetic potion so Cronos would throw up Zeus’s siblings

Question 3

What did Metis prophesize?

Answer 3

That her second child would dethrone Zeus

Question 4

Who did Zeus turn into a fly and swallow?

Answer 4

Metis

Question 5

Who was Zeus’s first born child by Metis?

Answer 5

Athena

Question 6

Who cleaved open Zeus’s head to release a fully grown Athena?

Answer 6

Hephaestus

Question 7

What did Zeus gain by swallowing Metis?

Answer 7

Wisdom

Question 8

Who was Zeus’s second wife?

Answer 8

Themis

Question 9

What children did Themis bear Zeus?

Answer 9

The Horae (seasons), Dike (human justice), Eirene (peace), Eunomia (order of law), and the Fates

Question 10

Who were the three horae?

Answer 10

Thallo (plant-raiser), Auxo (grower), and Carpo (fruit-bringer)

Question 11

Who was Zeus’s third wife?

Answer 11

Eurynome

Question 12

What children did Eurynome bear Zeus?

Answer 12

The Three Graces

Question 13

Who were the three graces?

Answer 13

Aglaea (splendor), Euphrosyne (mirth), and Thalia (good cheer)

Question 14

Who was Zeus’s fourth wife?

Answer 14

Demeter

Question 15

What guise did Zeus seduce Demeter in?

Answer 15

The form of a bull

Question 16

Who was the child of Zeus and Demeter?

Answer 16

Persephone

Question 17

Who was Zeus’s fifth wife (hint: STILL not Hera)?

Answer 17

Mnemosyne

Question 18

What group did Mnenosyne and Zeus parent?

Answer 18

The Nine Muses

Question 19

Name the Nine Muses:

Answer 19

Clio (history), Melpomene (tragedy), Urania (astronomy), Thalia (comedy), Terpsichore (dance), Calliope (epic poetry), Erato (love poetry), Euterpe (lyric poetry), and Polyhymnia (hymns)

Question 20

Who is Zeus’s official wife?

Answer 20

Hera

Question 21

How did Zeus seduce Hera?

Answer 21

In the form of a disheveled cuckoo (because that’s what the kids are into nowadays)

Question 22

Name Zeus and Hera’s children:

Answer 22

Hebe (divine cup-bearer), Ares, Ilithyia (goddess of childbearing), and Hephaestus

Question 23

Who did Hera proclaim to be virgin-born, which are two things that are generally mutually exclusive?

Answer 23

Hephaestus

Question 24

What island did Hephaestus hit when he was thrown from Olympus by Zeus?

Answer 24

Lemnos

Question 25

What pleiad, daughter of Atlas and Pleione, gave birth to Hermes?

Answer 25

Maia

Question 26

Who was the mother of Aphrodite?

Answer 26

Dione (titaness of vague origins)

Question 27

What titaness was forced to give birth to Zeus's children in total darkness/not on firm land?

Answer 27

Leto

Question 28

On what island did Leto give birth to Artemis, followed by Apollo?

Answer 28

Artemis on Ortygia; Apollo on Delos

Question 29

Who were the parents of the Theban princess Semele?

Answer 29

Cadmus and Harmonia

Question 30

What did Hera trick Semele into asking of Zeus?

Answer 30

To see him in his full glory (Burn baby burn!)

Question 31

What child did Zeus save from Semele by sowing him to his thigh?

Answer 31

Dionyses

Question 32

Who was the father of Io?

Answer 32

Inachus

Question 33

Io was the priestess of which god/godess in Argos?

Answer 33

Hera

Question 34

Into what form did Zeus turn Io to hide her from his wife?

Answer 34

Heifer

Question 35

Who watched Io at the request of Hera?

Answer 35

Argus Panoptes

Question 36

Who did Zeus send to kill Argus?

Answer 36

Hermes

Question 37

What did Hera put on a peacock feather in honor of Argus?

Answer 37

An eye

Question 38

At what river did Prometheus fortell that Io would change back into a human?

Answer 38

The Nile

Question 39

Who was the son of Io and Zeus?

Answer 39

Epaphus

Question 40

In what guise did Zeus seduce Callisto?

Answer 40

The form of Artemis

Question 41

Who was Callisto's son?

Answer 41

Arcas

Question 42

Into what constellations were Callisto and Arcus changed into by Zeus?

Answer 42

Ursa Major and Ursa Minor

Question 43

What son of Taygete and Zeus founded Sparta?

Answer 43

Lacadaemon

Question 44

Who were Europa's parents?

Answer 44

Agenor and Telephassa (King and Queen of Sidon)

Question 45

Where did Zeus, in the form of a white bull, carry Europa off to?

Answer 45

Crete

Question 46

Who were the children of Europa?

Answer 46

Minos and Rhadamanthus

Question 47

In what form did Zeus seduce Leda, queen of Sparta?

Answer 47

A swan (don't ask me how that works)

Question 48

Who were the children Leda bore?

Answer 48

Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor, and Pollux

Question 49

Who was the mother of Tantalus?

Answer 49

Plouto

Question 50

Who were the children of Tantalus?

Answer 50

Pelops, Niobe, and Broteas

Question 51

Why was Tantalus punished in the Underworld?

Answer 51

He fed his son to the gods

Question 52

What was Tantalus's punishment in the Underworld?

Answer 52

Insatiable hunger and thirst

Question 53

In what form did Zeus seduce Antiope?

Answer 53

A satyr

Question 54

Who were the children of Antiope?

Answer 54

Amphion and Zethus

Question 55

In what form did Zeus seduce Aegina, daughter of the river god Asopus?

Answer 55

A flame (I don’t even know what is going through Zeus's mind right now)

Question 56

What were the race of ants from which Zeus recreated people after Hera sent a plague to the island of Oenopia?

Answer 56

Myrmidons

Question 57

What woman tricked Zeus into making her eternally a virgin?

Answer 57

Sinope

Question 58

What pleiad bore Dardanus, founder of Troy?

Answer 58

Electra

Question 59

What titaness escaped Zeus by jumping into the Aegean sea, turning into a quail, and becoming the floating island of Ortygia?

Answer 59

Asteria

Question 60

Who did Zeus denounce after he found it was prophesied that she would bear a son more powerful than his father?

Answer 60

Thetis

Question 61

Who was the prince of Troy, abducted by Zeus as an eagle to serve as a cup-bearer to the gods?

Answer 61

Ganymede