NJCL Myth Test Questions Flashcards
From what island did Daedalus and Icarus escape on wings of wax and feathers?
Crete
Which Titan was called “Sol” by the Romans?
Helios
What son of Metaneira did Demeter place nightly in a fire in order to immortalize him?
Demophoon
What form did Zeus take when he persued Leda, the mother of Helen?
swan
Name the blind seer of Thebes who made prophesies about Narcissus and for Odysseus.
Teiresias
Who was the god of sun, music, medicine, and prophecy?
Apollo
The sea goddess, Doris, was the mother of which group with 50 daughters?
Nereids
Name the mother of Telemachus and the wife of Odysseus.
Penelope
Which swampy river was sometimes considered the boundary of the Underworld, instead of Styx?
Acheron
What instrument did Marsyas play?
flute
This kings daughter, Medea helped Jason to steal his prized Golden Fleece.
Aeetes
What did the Furies punish?
murder of family
Which son of Zeus and Europe ruled over Elysium in the Underworld?
Rhadamanthys
What people, created by Zeus form ants, did Achilles lead into battle?
Myrmidons
Which Greek warrior at Troy withdrew from fighting when Agammemnon demanded his concubine, Briseis?
Achilles
What son of Nauplius and Clymene was clever enough to see through Odysseus’ ruse of insanity?
Palamedes
What city was purchased by a queen asking only for what land she could encompass in a bull’s hide?
Carthage
Who was punished with insatiable hunger by Demeter after he cut down an oak belonging to a dryad?
Erysichthon
Whose stables did Heracles manage to clean in a day by diverting two rivers?
Augeias’
What female monsters were known as “the hounds of Zeus” and may have been personifications of storm wind?
Harpies
While the crow is usually Apollo’s bird, which goddess originally had it as hers until she rejected it for the owl?
Athena
Which of the following was NOT a monster captured or killed by Heracles during his Labors? A.Ladon B. Erymanthian boar C. Mares of Diomedes D. Python
Python
What daughter of the river Peneius and Creusa was turned into a laurel tree while fleeing Apollo?
Daphne
What was the principal city of the Amazons (though the movie Wonder Woman depicts it as an island)?
Themiscyra
What northern Aegean island was Hephaestus’ chief cult center since he landed there after falling from Olympus?
Lemnos
Whose men so infuriated Helios by eating his cattle that he threatened to shine in Hades unless they be punished?
Odysseus
Which of the following Trojans was also called Scamandrius?
Astyanax
Which of the Seven Against Thebes, the son of Atalanta and Ares, was exposed to protect his mother’s virginity?
Parthenopaeus
What Greek god of sleep was called “Somnus” by the Romans?
Hypnos
Name the gentle west wind.
Zephyr
What constellation of a sea monster or whale may represent the beast sent by Poseidon and killed by Perseus?
Cetus
What god was also called Orcus, Dis, and Zeus Katachthonios?
Hades
Who purified Jason and Medea of murder?
Circe
According to one version of Helen’s parentage, who was her mother who tried escaping Zeus in the goose-form?
Nemesis
Name the son of Labdacus, king of Thebes, whose lost son killed him fulfilling the Delphic oracle’s prophecy.
Laius
Who, dressed as a maenad, climbed a pine tree to spy on the revelers, and was torn apart by his own mother?
Pentheus
For which deity are the following epithets?: Agyies, Smintheius, Loxias, and Lyceius?
Apollo
In what city of Eperius, famous for oracles interpreted from rustling of oaks, were Zeus and Dione worshiped?
Dodona
Who lit a signal fire in Lycreia after escaping the fate of his forty-nine brothers to let his wife know he was safe?
Lynceus
What deity in his various stories was transformed into a kid, once rode two asses, and turned sailors into dolphins?
Dionysus
Where did Aeneas find the golden bough that allowed him to enter the underworld?
Cumae
What child, granted to Hyrieus for his hospitality to three gods, grew up to be as good a hunter as Artemis?
Orion
What son of Apollo and Coronis was rescued from his mother’s funeral pyre and given to Cheiron to raise
Asclepius
Which daughter of Cecrops did NOT spy on Erichthonius like her sisters?
Pandrosus
Who warned that Paris’ trip to Sparta would be a disaster and quarreled with Deiphobus about marrying Helen?
Helenus
What elderly, satyr-like companion of Dionysus was captured and entertained by Midas?
Seilenus
Who was warned by the seer Telemus that he would be blinded by a man named Odysseus?
Polyphemus
What king of Sicily was killed by Heracles in a boxing match?
Eryx
Which river of Troy would have flooded and drowned Achilles had Hephaestus not dried it up with a flame?
Scamander
What deity gave Euphemus a clod of earth about which the runner had a dream?
Triton
What daughters of Nyx and sisters of Moros were fanged and taloned death spirits?
Keres
Who was the wife of Orion who sent to the underworld for boasting she was more beautiful than Hera?
Side
What son of Lycaon was spared Zeus’ wrath when the god destroyed all Lycaon’s children
Nyctimus
Who was banished for killing the eight sons of Melas, though they plotted against their uncle Oeneus, his father?
Tydeus
What son of Poseidon and Alope was exposed twice and fed by mares both times?
Hippothoon
Which of the following river gods did NOT judge the contest between Hera and Poseidon over Argos? A.Inachus B.Eridanus C.Asterion D.Cephisus
Eridanus
What type of tree did Leto cling to on Delos when she gave birth to Artemis and Apollo?
palm
Whom did Venus curse because this woman’s loveliness caused people to stop worshiping the goddess?
Psyche
What Cretan is said to have married Oenarus, the priest of Dionysus, or to have married the god himself?
Ariadne
Into what were Ceyx and Alcyone turned on account of their grief?
kingfishers
Dionysus taught which man the culture of the vine for welcoming the god?
Icarius
Who gave his daughter, Sterope, a lock of Medusa’s hair in order to defend the walls of Tegea?
Cepheus
Which king of Megara killed his son Callipolis for interrupting a sacrifice to Apollo?
Alcathous
What Cretan usurper drove Idomeneus from his island upon the king’s return from Troy?
Leucus
What town on the road to Chalcis was the home of a fox that ravaged Thebes?
Teumessus
What daughter of Ligdus was dressed as a boy by her mother Telethusa since her father threatened to kill her?
Thelpusa
What island was the home of different cattle pastured by Helios and Geryon?
Thrinacia
From what warlike and greedy neighbors did Griffins guard their stores of gold?
Arimaspians
According to Pausanius, who ruled Argos when Danaus claimed his birthright like a wolf attacking the lead bull?
Gelanor
According to Hyginus, who gave Procris an infallible spear, the hunting dog, Laelaps, and marital advice?
Artemis
What Arcadian emigrant and king of Pallanteum plays a critical role in Book in Book VIII of the Aeneid?
Evander
What king of Athens was the father of Procne, Philomela, Erectheus, and Butes?
Pandion
What epithet was given to the Cretan goddess Britomartis?
Dictynna
What Phrygian divinities were worshiped on the island of Samothrace, Lemnos, and Imbros?
Cabeiri
What city, a center of worship of Eros and the Muses, was saved by the self-sacrifice of Menestratus?
Thespiae
What son of Polybus was the most favored of Penelope’s suitors?
Eurymachus
According to the Aeneid, what city did Diomedes found in Italy?
Argyripa
Metabus, the father of the Volscian warrior Camilla, was driven out of what Italian town?
Privernum
Which of the Seven Against Thebes was carried into battle by the swift-footed Arion?
Adrastus
According to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, who was transformed into a lizard for mocking Ceres?
Ascalabus
What son of Aeolus and Enarete was the founder and first king of Iolcus?
Cretheus
What son of Panopeus was the ingenious artisan who built the Trojan Horse?
Epeius
According to the Odyssey, who gave Odysseus the famous bow that hung in his house?
Iphitus
Who, the son of Poeciles, was left on Calliste to colonize the land for the Phoenicians?
Theras
What daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, ashamed at her liaison with Poseidon, threw their son into the sea?
Chione
What son of Apollo was birthed with help from the Fates but was left in a thicket to be fed honey by snakes?
Iamus
Which of the Giants did Dionysus kill with his Thyrsus?
Eurytus
What attendant of Alcmene tricked Eileithyia into allowing Heracles’ birth, and was turned into a weasel?
Galanthis
Because she laughed at her infatuation with Adonis, which of the Muses did Aphrodite punish with love for Pierus, to whom she then bore Hyacinthus?
Melpomene
What charioteer drove the immortal horses Xanthos and Balios into battle when Hector killed Patroclus?
Automedon
Which of the following was NOT an entrance to the Underworld? A.Trapezus B.Alcyonian Lake C.Lake Avernus D. Taenarum
Trapezus
Which of the brigands who fought against Theseus was called Damastes?
Procrustes
Which of the following is the location on Sicily at which the Rape of Persephone occurred?
Henna
Which epithet of Zeus means “He of the Storeroom”?
Ktesios
What Arcadian hero was honored in the town of Alipherus for chasing away flies?
Myagro
What king of Elis met the Heraclids at Naupactus and served as their good through the Peloponnesus?
Echetus
Who is credited with carving the oldest image of Cybele, but incurred the wrath of Artemis, who drove him mad, causing him to think himself immune from flames so that he threw himself on a fire and subsequently died?
Broteas
What man, a son of Zeus and a Sithnid nymph, swam toward the cries of cranes to escape the Great Flood?
Megarus
According to the Arcadians, who lead a small group of giants against the gods despite protecting Rhea when she birthed Zeus?
Hopladamus
What daughter of Orion was the mother of Hylas?
Menodice
