Quiz #3

Question 1

Zeus

Answer 1

• Son of Cronos and Rhea
• Gave birth to Athena from his head
• Hesiod said Zeus got tricked
• Zeus has a conflict with Prometheus

Question 2

Athena

Answer 2

• Had Pandora with Hephaestus

Question 3

Aphrodite

Answer 3

• foam born goddess
• other tradition says she was born from Zeus and Dione
• Contributed to creation of Pandora

Question 4

Chaos

Answer 4

• meaning void/chasm
• came Gaia, Tartarus and Eros

Question 5

Gaia

Answer 5

• gave birth to Uranos, who became her equal & consort
• had 12 titans, 2 cyclops, 3 hectatonchires

Question 6

Eros

Answer 6

• Came from Chaos
• Sibling to Gaia and Tartarus

Question 7

Tartarus

Answer 7

• Son of Chaos
• Offspring: Typhoeus with Gaia

Question 8

Ouranos

Answer 8

• son of Gaia, became Gaia’s equal and consort
• After his Castration came: Erinyes, Giants and Nymphs

Question 9

Cronos

Answer 9

• Has 6 children with Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Zeus, Poseidon

Question 10

Rhea

Answer 10

• Child of Uranus and Gaia
• Part of the 12 Titans

Question 11

Hecatonchires

Answer 11

• cottus, briarus, gyes
• the hundred handers
• have 100 arms and 50 heads
• huge, powerful beings

Question 12

Cyclops

Answer 12

• giants with one eye

Question 13

Titans

Answer 13

• pre olympian gods who ruled the cosmos in ancient Greek before the Titanomachy war
• giant, immortal deities

Question 14

Giants

Answer 14

• offspring of Gais (Earth), born from the blood that fell when Uranus (Sky) was castrated by his Titan son Cronus

Question 15

Metis

Answer 15

• goddess of wisdom

Question 16

Prometheus

Answer 16

• “fore learner”
• Son of lapetus (TItan) anf Clymene (Oceanid)
• Brothers: Atlas, Menoetius and Epimetheus (After learner or dummy)
• At mecone when the humans & Gods were arguing, Prometheis taight humans how to make a sacrifice to the gods and tricked Zeus in doing so
• He stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans (making him god of fire)
• Archetypical trickster (tried to outsmart Zeus but in doing so… Hesiod said he was unable to)
• Archetypical culture hero/god
• In Works and Days said not to accept gifts from Zeus
• Pandora was made bcs Prometheus stole fire

Question 17

Epimetheus

Answer 17

• Twin brother to Prometheus
• means “Afterthought” or “Hindsight”
• Got Pandora and a pithos (storage vessel)

Question 18

Atlas

Answer 18

• Brother to Prometheus
• Led the rebellion against Zeus in the Titanomachy

Question 19

Pandora

Answer 19

• Story from the Theogony 570-617
• Created by Hephaestus and Athena
  -Story found in Works and Days 60-105
• Means “All Gifts”
• Gave herself and a pithos to Epimetheus
• Opened a jar that released all of the ills and hard toils of the world
• Made because Prometheus stole fire

Question 20

Philemon

Question 21

Baucis

Question 22

Diomedes

Question 23

Glaucos

Question 24

Chimaera

Answer 24

• a snake-tailed, goat- and lion-headed creature that breathed fire

Question 25

Bellerophon

Answer 25

• tamed pegasus : accompanied him on all his quests
• King of Lycia ordered him to kill the Chimaera
• fought solymi and amazons
• ambushed by King of Lycia

Question 26

Proteus

Answer 26

• trojan soldier killed by Odyessus

Question 27

Antea

Answer 27

• an epithet of goddesses demeter, rhea and cybele

Question 28

Iobates

Question 29

Pytho

Answer 29

• a huge creature that was killed by Apollo at Delphi
• sacred animal