Past Certamen deck Flashcards
Who was the mother of Ariadne?
Pasiphae
Who was Pasiphae’s husband?
Minos
Who was Ariadne’s sister?
Phaedra
Who transformed into a laurel tree?
Daphne
What old couple were turned into an oak and linden?
Baucis and Philemon
What type of trees were the Heliades, the sisters of Phaethon, turned into?
Weeping willows
What was the river of woe called?
Acheron
What was the river of fire?
Phlegethon
What was the river of forgetfulness called?
Lethe
Who dressed like a girl and held out in the court of Lycomedes to escape the Trojan War?
Achilles
Who was dressed like a woman by his Aunt Ino to protect him from Hera?
Dionyssus
Which couple repopulated the world after a flood?
Deucalion and Pyrrha
Which couple spoke through a crack in the walls in their house?
Pyramus and Thisbe
What nymph held Odysseus for 7 years?
Calypso
What was the name of Calypso’s island?
Ogygia
What was the name of Circe’s island?
Aiaia
Which Greek king was told to beware a man with one shoe?
Pelias
What man was to be bewared only wearing one sandal?
Jason
What goddess caused Jason to lose his shoe?
Hera
What bandit had a man-eating turtle?
Sciron
Who had man-eating mares?
Diomedes
What man ate his own son, served up by his wife and sister-in-law
Tereus
What Trojan was named from the Greek word which means “to ransom”?
Priam
Who was the sister of Priam’s that ransomed him?
Hesione
Which child of Priam and his wife Hecuba was prophesized to burn down the city of Troy?
Paris
What was the name of the fisherman of Seriphus who found and sheltered Danae and baby Perseus?
Dictys
Dictys was the brother of what cruel king of. Seriphus?
Polydectes
Dictys and Polydectes were both sons of what type of freshwater nymph?
naiad
What king was the foster father of infant Heracles?
Amphitryon
Before the birth of Heracles, Amphitryon had to rid the region of Teumessus of a vixen. To do this, he used his friend Cephalus’ dog. What was the name of this dog?
Laelaps
Who had sent the vixen to ravish the countryside of Teumessus?
Hera or Dionysus
Who was responsible for the freak seer Teiresias’ blinding?
Hera
Teiresias once joined in the rites of Dionysus, after vainly warning which son of Cadmus not to oppose him?
Pentheus
During the Argive invasion of Thebes, whom did Tiresias tell to sacrifice his son Menoeceus in
order to save Thebes?
Creon
Which two mythological brothers were killed by Heracles because they had convinced Jason to sail on while he searched for Hvlas?
Zetes and Calais
Zetes and Calais were the sons of which wind god?
Boreas
On the journey of the Argonauts, Zetes and Calais pursued and would have killed the Harpies it not for the intervention of what messenger deity?
Iris
Which two Greek goddesses had to go to Zeus to mediate their dispute over the lovely youth Adonis?
Aphrodite and Persephone
According to one version. it was not Zeus who mediated the disoute. but one of the Muses.
Aphrodite, enraged that she had not been given Adonis on a full-time basis, caused the death of that Muse’s son, Orpheus. Which Muse?
Calliope
Which of the wind gods, often represented with snake tails instead of feet, claimed his residence in Thrace?
Boreas
What Athenian princess was courted by Boreas along the Ilissus river?
Oreithyia
What titan was Chiron’s father?
Cronos
What sons of Ares and Aphrodite often follow Ares in battle?
Phobos and Deimos
What sons of Ares and Aphrodite followed Ares in battle?
Phobos and Demos
What sons of Ares and Aphrodite followed Ares in battle?
Phobos and Demos
What daughter of Ares and Aphrodite became the first queen of Thebes?
Harmonia
