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Question 1

The King of the Titanes, and the god of destructive time–time which devours all. He led his brothers in the ambush and castration of their father Uranus, but was himself deposed and cast into the pit of Tartaros by his own son Zeus. Some say the old Titan was later released by Zeus and appointed King of Islands of the Blessed, home of the favoured dead.

Answer 1

Cronus

Question 2

The Titan god of the intellect as his name would suggest. He was also known as Polus (the pole) and probably presided over the axis of heaven in the north around which the constellations revolve. He was one of the four Titan-brothers who conspired with Cronus in the ambush and castration of Uranus. At the end of the Titan-War, he was confined by Zeus in the Tartarean pit. He was sometimes described as leader of the Gigantes, who rebelled against Zeus.

Answer 2

Coeus

Question 3

The Titan god of the heavenly constellations and the measure of the year. He was probably associated with the constellation Aries, the heavenly ram (which the Greeks called). Its spring rising marked the start of the new year, andthe other constellations were said to follow in its wake. He was one of the four Titan brothers who conspired with Cronus in the castration of Uranus. He was later cast into the Tartarean pit by Zeus. He was sometimes named as a leader of the Gigantes who rebelled against the rule of Zeus.

Answer 3

Crius

Question 4

The Titan god of mortality and the allotment of the mortal life-span. His sons Prometheus and Epimetheus were the creators of animals and men. He was one of the four brother-Titans who held Uranus fast while Cronus castrated him with the sickle. As punishment he was cast into the Tartarean pit by Zeus at the end of the Titan War.

Answer 4

Iapetus

Question 5

The Titan god of light, and of the cycles of time measured by the lights of heaven – the sun, the moon and the dawn. He was one of the four brother Titans who held Uranus fast while Cronus castrated him with the sickle. At the end of the Titan War he was cast into the pit of Tartarus by Zeus.

Answer 5

Hyperion

Question 6

The Titan god of the earth-encircling, fresh-water river. As a Titan god he presided over the rising and setting of the heavenly bodies : the sun, the moon, the stars, and the dawn. His ever-flowing waters, encircling the edges of the cosmos were associated with the neverending flow of time. He was the only one of the brother Uranides not to participate in the castration of their father Uranus. In the Titan-War he remained neutral, giving his tacit support to Zeus.

Answer 6

Oceanus

Question 7

The elder Titanis-goddess of memory, words and language. She was the mother of the nine Muses by Zeus. She was also a prophetic goddess associated with the oracle of Trophonius in Lebadeia.

Answer 7

Mnemosyne

Question 8

The elder Titan-goddess of intellect and prophetic goddess of the great Oracle of Delphi. She was the grandmother of the god Apollo.

Answer 8

Phoebe

Question 9

The Queen of the Titans and goddess of female fertility and the mountain wilds. She saved her son Zeus from the maw of Cronus by substituting the child for a stone wrapped in swaddling cloth. The Titan had devoured her other five children, but these were later freed from his beely by Zeus.

Answer 9

Rhea

Question 10

The elder Titan-goddess of the sources of fresh-water. She was known as the great nurse of life, and was sometimes equated with someone, the goddess “creation.” She spawned the Rivers, Clouds and Springs.

Answer 10

Tethys

Question 11

The elder Titanis goddess of sight and the shining light of heaven (“aither”). She was the mother of Sun, Moon and Dawn. Her name is also connected with words meaning “foresight” and “prophecy”.

Answer 11

Theia

Question 12

The elder Titan-goddess of the natural order, divine law and tradition. She was also a goddess of the oracles of Dodona and Delphi. By Zeus she was the mother of the goddess Fates and of the Seasons, and had a seat by his side on Olympus as advisor.

Answer 12

Themis

Question 13

A younger Titan goddess whose name and genealogy suggest presided over the night, stars and nocturnal prophecy. She was the mother of the goddess Hecate. After the fall of the Titans, she was pursued by Zeus and but leapt into the sea to escape him where she was transformed into the island of Delos.

Answer 13

Asteria

Question 14

Titan that was a daughter of Zeus and Themis or of Eos and Astraeus. She and her mother were both personifications of justice, though she was also associated with innocence and purity.

Answer 14

Astraea

Question 15

The younger Titan god of the stars, the winds, and the art of astrology. He was the father of the four directional winds and the five wandering stars (the Planeta) by his wife Eos, the goddess of the dawn.

Answer 15

Astraeus

Question 16

The younger Titan god of astronomy and the revolution of the heavnely constellations. He was arrested by Zeus and condemned to bear the heavens upon his shoulders. Homer suggests he was later released from this torment and appointed guardian of the pillars of heaven.

Answer 16

Atlas

Question 17

The younger Titan-goddess of the dawn. She was the mother of the wandering stars (that is, the planets) and the four directional winds by the Titan Astraeus.

Answer 17

Eos

Question 18

The Titan god of afterthought. He was appointed with the task of creating the beasts of the earth, while his brother was busy with the crafting of man. He was tricked by Zeus into receiving Pandora, the first woman, and her jar of evils into the house of man.

Answer 18

Epimetheus

Question 19

The Titan god of the sun who rode across the sky in a chariot drawn by four fiery, winged steeds. He was an ally of Zeus in the Titan-War.

Answer 19

Helius

Question 20

The younger Titan-goddess of motherhood, light, and womanly demure. She was the mother of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis by Zeus.

Answer 20

Leto

Question 21

The Titan god of violent anger and rash action as his name would suggest. Zeus blasted him into Erebus with a thunderbolt, where he became a bondsman of King Hades.

Answer 21

Menoetius

Question 22

The Titan god of warcraft and the military campaign season. Some say Athena defeated him in battle and crafted her aegis-cape from his goatish skin.

Answer 22

Pallas

Question 23

The Titan god of destruction, and perhaps of summer droughts whose name means “the destroyer.” Like his daughter Hecate, he was probably associated with the dog-sta r: the source of scorching heat of mid-summer.

Answer 23

Perses

Question 24

The Titan god of forethought and the creator and benefactor of man. He defied Zeus on several occasions, including tricking the gods out of the best share of the sacrificial meat, and stealing fire from heaven for the benefit of mankind. Zeus was furious, and had him chained to Mount Caucasus, where an eagle was set to devour his ever- regenerating liver. The Titan was eventually released from his tortures by Heracles.

Answer 24

Prometheus

Question 25

The younger Titan-goddess of the moon.

Answer 25

Selene

Question 26

A Cretan Titan or Giant who mentored Zeusin his youth. He later roused his kin in an uprisal against the god but was destroyed. His name (whose name may derive from a word meaning eternal time) was perhaps the same as Cronus or Olymbrus.

Answer 26

Olympus

Question 27

The younger Titan-goddess of oaths of allegiance and of the deadly, netherworld River. She brought her children Victory, Rivalry, Force and Power to the side of Zeus at the start of the Titan-War.

Answer 27

Styx

Question 28

A Titan god who instructed mankind in the observation of the stars and establishment of the natural or farming calendar. He was perhaps the same as Atlas.

Answer 28

Titan

Question 29

Another Famous Greek hero, a son of Zeus who rises to Olympus at his death. He is renowned for his incredible strength and bravery, but he lacks intelligence and self-control.

Most of his adventures begin with a horrible mistake that he makes and then attempts to fix. His most famous feats, the Twelve Labors, are the punishment he receives for murdering his family in a fit of madness.

Answer 29

Hercules

Question 30

Zeus’s son by the beautiful princess Danaë. Danaë’s father, forewarned that he will someday kill him, locks the infant and his mother in a trunk and casts it into the sea. He survives, comes of age, and sets out to kill the monster Medusa and bring back her head. As prophesied, he kills his grandfather, though unwittingly, by hitting him with a stray discuss.

Answer 30

Perseus

Question 31

The son of King Aegeus of Athens and a quintessential Athenian hero. He is the model citizen: a kind leader, good to his friends and countrymen. He does have his shortcomings, however: he abandons Ariadne, and later doubts his own son, which leads to his tragic demise.

Answer 31

Theseus

Question 32

The most famous Greek in the Trojan War, whose strength and bravery are unrivaled. He is selfless, courageous, and devoted to the gods—he is the finest Greek warrior. His mother, the sea-nymph Thetis, has made him invulnerable everywhere except his heel, and that is where he is struck and killed.

Answer 32

Achilles

Question 33

Roman name: Ulysses. He is the protagonist of Homer’s Odyssey. He is the king of Ithaca and a great warrior in the Trojan War but is best known for his decade-long trip home from the war. He survives the challenges he encounters by using his wits. A fine talker and brilliant strategist, he is perhaps the most modern and human of the classical heroes.

Answer 33

Odysseus

Question 34

The son of the king of Thebes. He frees Thebes from the menace of the Sphinx and marries the widowed queen, Jocasta, unaware that she is his mother. Learning the truth later, he faces fate and blinds himself as penance.

Answer 34

Oedipus

Question 35

The hero of the Oresteia, Aeschylus’s trilogy of plays. His father is the great king Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, and his sister is the sacrificed Iphigenia. When his mother, Clytemnestra, kills Agamemnon to avenge Iphigenia’s death, He kills her. As a result, the horrible Furies plague him until he atones for his crime.

Answer 35

Orestes

Question 36

One of the least impressive of the Greek heroes. His most notable feat is his assembly of a cast of heroes to travel on a long fraudulent quest—the recovery of the Golden Fleece. When he arrives in Colchis to retrieve the Fleece, the daughter of the king, Medea, falls in love with him. He abandons her and marries a princess later for political gain. In revenge, Medea kills his new wife and her own children, whom Medea had by him.

Though he lives on, he bears the burden of this tragedy, in some ways a fate worse than death.

Answer 36

Jason

Question 37

Another son of King Priam, he is the bravest and most famous of the Trojan warriors. Unlike his brother Paris, he faces challenges with great strength and courage. His death ends the Iliad.

Answer 37

Hector

Question 38

The only great Trojan warrior who survives the war, he is protected by Aphrodite, his mother. He flees Troy, carrying his father on his back and leading his child by the hand. His values are more Roman than Greek, as he is first and foremost a warrior.

Answer 38

Aeneas

Question 39

A son of King Priam of Troy, he unwittingly starts the Trojan War by judging Aphrodite the fairest of all the goddesses. Aphrodite arranges for him to marry the beautiful Helen, but Helen is already married. Helen’s kidnapping leads the Greeks to unite against Troy and sparks the decade-long Trojan War. He is only a minor figure in the Trojan War battles and is usually portrayed as weak and unheroic.

Answer 39

Paris

Question 40

The most beautiful woman who has ever lived, she is promised to Paris after his judgment of Aphrodite. Her kidnapping causes the Trojan War. She is peculiarly silent in the Iliad, living with Paris for ten years before returning home with Menelaus, her original husband. She is treated as more of an object than a person.

Answer 40

Helen

Question 41

The first and most famously foolish woman of Greek myth. Married to Epimetheus, Prometheus’s simple-minded brother, she has been entrusted with a box that the gods have told her never to open. She peeks inside the box, unleashing evil into the world. She manages to close the box just in time to save Hope, humankind’s only solace.

Answer 41

Pandora

Question 42

A priestess of Apollo and the most famous prophet in all of Greece. Humans typically consult the ____ to ascertain the will of the gods or a person’s fate. She most often appears at the beginning of a story, as a character asks his fate, finds it unpleasant, and then tries to change it—only to become a victim of fate precisely because of his efforts to change it.

Answer 42

Oracle at Delphi

Question 43

Along with Circe, She is one of two famous sorceresses in Greek myth. She selflessly helps Jason defeat her own father and obtain the Golden Fleece. After Jason turns on her, she kills his new wife and then her own children.

Answer 43

Medea

Question 44

One of the three Gorgons. ____ is a horrible woman-beast with snakes for hair. Her gaze turns men to stone. She is killed by Perseus.

Answer 44

Medusa

Question 45

The half-man, half-bull monster that terrorizes Minos’s Labyrinth. It is killed by Theseus.

Answer 45

Minotaur

Question 46

A beast with the head of a woman and the body of a winged lion. The ____ blocks entry to the city of Thebes, refusing to budge until someone answers her riddle and eating anyone who fails. When Oedipus solves the riddle, the ____ promptly kills herself.

Answer 46

Sphinx

Question 47

Fearsome one-eyed giants, of whom Polyphemus is the most famous. In some myths they are the children of Heaven and Earth; in others they are the sons of Poseidon. They forge the thunderbolts of Zeus, who favors them.

Answer 47

Cyclopes

Question 48

The terrible Cyclops who imprisons Odysseus and his men and eats them alive. They escape only after blinding him. In later myths, he becomes a pitiful character who recovers his sight but chases after the cruel nymph Galatea who mocks him.

Answer 48

Polyphemus

Question 49

A vile three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades.

Answer 49

Cerberus

Question 50

The daughter of King Minos of Crete. She falls in love with the hero Theseus and uses a golden thread to help him defeat the Labyrinth of the dreaded Minotaur.

Answer 50

Ariadne