Mythology - Practice Questions Flashcards
Epimetheus and Prometheus were both sons of what Titan?
Iapetus
Who was the mother of the Titans Epimetheus and Prometheus?
Asia / Clymene
Name an offspring of the Titans Iapetus and Clymene
Prometheus / Epimetheus / Atlas / Menoetius
Whom was Paris fighting in single combat when Aphrodite saved him from injury?
Menelaus
According to one account of the war and its aftermath, Menelaus left Troy and went to what country in order to retrieve his wife Helen, since it had only been a phantom Helen that Paris kidnapped?
Egypt
What was it that caused Menelaus and Helen to become immortal in the Isles of the Blessed?
Helen was a daughter of Zeus
Who used pine trees to catapult his victims to death?
Sinis / Pityocamptes
Which of the brigands encountered by Theseus kicked people off of a cliff in order to feed his giant pet turtle?
Sciron / Sceiron
Which of the brigands encountered by Theseus was a great wrestler?
Cercyon
With what constantly sleeping young man did Selene fall in love?
Endymion
How many daughters did Endymion and Selene have?
50
What gift did Zeus grant to Endymion, husband of Selene?
perpetual youth and sleep
Who killed Aegisthus, the lover of Clytemnestra?
Orestes
What deity urged Orestes to kill Aegisthus, lover of Clytemnestra?
Apollo
During the murder trial of Orestes, who cast the deciding, non-guilty vote?
Athena
