Olympians

Question 1

Places associated with Hera

Answer 1

Peloponnesos: Argos, Sparta, Mycenae, Island of Samos

Question 2

Where were Hera’s temples usually located?

Answer 2

Away from urban centres, in or close to fertile lands

Question 3

What is Hera the god of?

Answer 3

Marriage and the family unit (oikos)
Fair treatment of women
Childbirth and Fertility

Question 4

Animals, plants, dress and symbols associated with Hera

Answer 4

cow, peacock
pomegranate
attractive but matronly

Question 5

Children of Zeus and Hera

Answer 5

Hades - god of war and extreme violence, sadism
Eileithyia - god of women during childbirth
Hebe - god of youth

(and arguably Hephaestus)

Question 6

Hera favours whom in the Trojan war?

Answer 6

The Greeks

Question 7

Hera’s Roman equivilent

Answer 7

Juno

Question 8

Poseidon’s Roman equivilent

Answer 8

Neptune

Question 9

Poseidon’s name means

Answer 9

Husband or lord in Linear B

Question 10

Poseidon was a god to the ________ and this was evidenced by the wealth that would be required to sacrifice _______ in his honour

Answer 10

Aristocrats

horses

Question 11

Poseidon is considered to be complementary to Zeus how

Answer 11

• Sits on the edge of the Olympian oikos, prefers his home at the bottom of the sea
• Anti-human; can be placated, but not pleased
• Represents phusis (chaos/disorder/anarchy) to Zeus’ nomos

Question 12

Poseidon’s epithet

Answer 12

Earthshaker

Question 13

Poseidon was the god of

Answer 13

• the sea (saltwater)

- earthquakes

Question 14

Two gods that were feared above all else

Answer 14

• Hades

- Poseidon

Question 15

Poseidon’s animals, plants, places, dress and symbols

Answer 15

• horses
• Pylos, Boeotia
• Trident

Question 16

Who was Hyacinth?

Answer 16

• beautiful famed discus thrower

- Apollo’s friend/lover killed in discus throwing accident

Question 17

Where is Hera first mentioned?

Answer 17

First of the Olympians mentioned, as far back as Linear B (likely pre-Greek in origin)