UNIT 11: Myths & Culture

Question 1

Roman Goddess identified with Sulis

Answer 1

Minerva

Question 2

Latin noun at the root of the English word “plumbing”

Answer 2

plumbum (“lead”)

Question 3

entity that symbolized the power to curse, often depicted in Roman art with weapons and animals attacking it

Answer 3

the evil eye

Question 4

professional diviner who inspects the livers of sacrificial animals

Answer 4

haruspex

Question 5

son of Zeus who performed twelve labors

Answer 5

Heracles

Question 6

Heracles’ first labor, which he strangled it to death because its hide could not be pierced by human weapons

Answer 6

Nemean Lion

Question 7

nine-headed serpent that would grow back two heads for every one that was cut off

Answer 7

Hydra

Question 8

huge stables that Heracles cleaned out by diverting two rivers through it

Answer 8

Augean Stables

Question 9

man-eating birds, which had beaks of bronze, poisonous dung, and sharp metallic feathers that they could launch at their victims

Answer 9

Stymphalian Birds

Question 10

father of the Minotaur, Heracles captured it as his seventh labor

Answer 10

Cretan Bull

Question 11

Titan who helped Heracles retrieve the golden apples of the Hesperides, then tried to trick him into holding up the sky for him

Answer 11

Atlas

Question 12

Heracles’ final labor was to capture this three-headed dog of the underworld

Answer 12

Cerberus