Week 4, Chpt 9-11

Question 1

How did Hephaestus return to Olympus?

Answer 1

Delegation sent to Earth to get Hephaestus to set his mother free form the golden throne. To do this they got him drunk.

Question 2

Hateful Ares

Answer 2

God of War

Question 3

Who was the first to be put on trial for murder?

Answer 3

Ares, for murdering his daughter’s rapist. It was considered justified and he was set free.

Question 4

Ares in Roman

Answer 4

Mars

Question 5

Aphrodite of the

Answer 5

Golden Laughter

Question 6

Aphrodite in Roman

Answer 6

Venus

Question 7

Aphrodite was born from

Answer 7

sea foam.

Question 8

Who always accompanied Aphrodite?

Answer 8

Eros

Question 9

Who is immune to Aphrodite’s power?

Answer 9

The virgin goddesses: Athena, Hestia, and Artemis.

Question 10

Artemis, Potnia Theron

Answer 10

Queen of Wild Things. Mistress of Animals. Fertility in terms of wild spaces.

Question 11

A woman who dies in childbirth was struck by the arrows of

Answer 11

Artemis

Question 12

Who was Iphigenia sacrificed for and why?

Answer 12

Artemis. Greek warrior leading the ships to Troy unsuccessful because he boasted to be better than Artemis. The priest told him he must sacrifice a human life in order to sale to Troy.

Question 13

Who was Niobe?

Answer 13

Niobe boasted that she put Artemis’s mother to shame in terms of fertility. All of her children were killed as Artemis’s and Apollo’s vengeance.

Question 14

Why is the constellation Orion always running away from the Scorpio in the night sky?

Answer 14

He tried to rape Artemis. She set a scorpion on his head, he was stung to death and placed in the sky to forever be fleeing from the scorpion.

Question 15

Acteon was torn apart by his own hunting dogs after Artemis turned him into a stag for stumbling upon her naked. What is this an allegory for?

Answer 15

How expensive hunting dogs were, someone may find themselves torn apart financially by their hunting dogs.

Question 16

Where does Athena take her name FROM?

Answer 16

The city of Athens.

Question 17

Athena is the goddess of

Answer 17

war, domestic craft, and weaving.

Question 18

Who came on Athena’s leg in order to birth Erichtonius?

Answer 18

Hephaestus

Question 19

How did Arachne come to be a spider?

Answer 19

She wove a piece with all of the god’s affairs on it in a weaving contest. In anger Athena sliced her face. Arachne hung herself and Athena turned her into a spider.

Question 20

Who is Persephone’s Mom?

Answer 20

Demeter

Question 21

Demeter is the goddess of

Answer 21

grains and the harvest

Question 22

Persephone was taken to the underworld by her father Zeus’s permission to be with Hades. What is this an allegory for?

Answer 22

The marriage of Greek girls.

Question 23

Parthenos –> Nymphe –> Gune

Answer 23

Virgin –> Nymph –> Mother

3 phases of a complete life as a Greek woman.

Question 24

Who approached Demeter and gave her a home and a job?

Answer 24

The daughters of Eleusis’s King: Celeus.

Question 25

How did Demeter try to show her gratitude to Eleusis’s royal family’s hospitality?

Answer 25

She plunged their son Demophoon into the fire every night to burn off his mortality so he would be immortal.

Question 26

What did Demeter do in anger of not getting her Persephone back?

Answer 26

She withdrew all agriculture from the Earth. And this is why nothing grows in the hot summers.

Question 27

Why does Persephone still belong to the underworld?

Answer 27

She shared a meal with Hades and ate the pomegranate.