Book 6

Question 1

What was Arachne’s skill

Answer 1

She was a weaver of wool.

Question 2

Why did Minerva visit Arachne.

Answer 2

Because Arachne was boasting that she was more skilled than Minerva.

Question 3

In what form does Minerva visit Arachne and why?

Answer 3

In the form of a crone, to get Arachne to speak against Minerva.

Question 4

What contest did Arachne challenge Minerva to?

Answer 4

A weaving contest

Question 5

What did Minerva depict in her tapestry?

Answer 5

The gods in a dispute about naming the land—4 transformations

Question 6

What transformation in first corner of Minerva’s tapestry?

Answer 6

Hameus and Rhodope, to mountains for calling each other Jove and Juno

Question 7

What transformation in 2d corner of Minerva’s tapestry?

Answer 7

Queen of pygmies transformed int a crane by Juno

Question 8

What transformation in the third corner of Minerva’s tapestry?

Answer 8

Transformation of Antigone into a stork for competing with Juno

Question 9

What transformation in 4th corner of Minerva’s tapestry?

Answer 9

Daughters of contras turned into temple steps

Question 10

What was Minerva’s tree on border of her tapestry

Answer 10

The olive tree

Question 11

What was depicted on Arachnes tapestry

Answer 11

Lewd acts of the gods and transformation they used to commit them

Question 12

Who made the better tapestry

Answer 12

It was not revealed, but it was inferred that Arachne won the contest

Question 13

What was the outcome of the weaving contest?

Answer 13

Minerva was beating Arachne, who tried to hang herself to escape, but Minerva turned her into a spider.

Question 14

What fate did Minerva curse the spiders to?

Answer 14

To hang suspended forever and spin their webs.

Question 15

Who are Latona’s children?

Answer 15

Apollo and Diana

Question 16

Who was Niobe’s husband?

Answer 16

Amphion

Question 17

How many children did Niobe have?

Answer 17

7 sons and 7 daughters

Question 18

What did Niobe do during the procession for Latona?

Answer 18

She convinced followers to worship her instead, claiming she was closer to a goddess

Question 19

Who is Niobes father?

Answer 19

Tantalus

Question 20

What ultimate insult invoked Latonas revenge?

Answer 20

She insulted Latonas children

Question 21

Who carried out the revenge on Niobe?

Answer 21

Apollo and Diana

Question 22

What happened to Niobes 7 sons?

Answer 22

Apollo killed them in a surprise attack with arrows

Question 23

What happened to Amphion?

Answer 23

He killed himself in his grief over his seven sons.

Question 24

Did Niobe regret her pride and ask the gods for mercy?

Answer 24

No, she boasted about her 7 daughters.

Question 25

What happened to Niobes 7 daughters?

Answer 25

Latonas children killed them with arrows as they were grieving for their brothers.

Question 26

What happened to Niobe as she was grieving the death of her family?

Answer 26

SHe turned to stone with a stream running down and was removed to her native land.

Question 27

Who was Latona fleeing from with her newborn babies?

Answer 27

Juno

Question 28

When Latona reached Lycia, what did she do to the peasants who refused to let her drink from their pool?

Answer 28

Turned them into frogs

Question 29

What was the Marsyas river in Lycia, created by?

Answer 29

By the tears of the Lycians for satyr that Apollo flayed to death when he lost a piping contest.

Question 30

Who did the Thracian king Tereus marry?

Answer 30

Procne, daughter of the king of Athens

Question 31

What ill omens were at the wedding of Procne and Tereus?

Answer 31

The wedding was attended by the Furies and a screech owl roosted on their bedroom roof

Question 32

Who was Procne’s sister?

Answer 32

Philomela

Question 33

What happened when Procne sent her husband Tereseus to fetch her sister for a visit?

Answer 33

He desired her, so he abducted her and raped her instead.

Question 34

What does Tereseus do to Philomela when she threatens to tell on his crimes against her.

Answer 34

He cuts out her tongue.

Question 35

What does Tereseus tell his wife about Philomela.

Answer 35

That she died in the voyage

Question 36

What does Philomela do while locked away by Tereseus?

Answer 36

She wove the story of what Tereseus did into a tapestry and sent it to her sister.

Question 37

How does Procne respond to what her husband did to her sister?

Answer 37

She goes into a rage and goes in disguise to free her sister from where she is being held captive

Question 38

What revenge does she take on her husband?

Answer 38

She kills their child and feeds it to him.

Question 39

What do the Furies transform Procne, Philomela, and Tereus into?

Answer 39

Birds: nightingale, swallow, and hoopoe TV

Question 40

Who was the father of Procne and Philomela?

Answer 40

King of Athens, Pandion

Question 41

Who fell in love with Orithyia?

Answer 41

The god of the north wind, Boreas

Question 42

What delayed the suit of Boreus for the Athenian princess?

Answer 42

The hatred for Thracians that came from the north after what was done to the daughters of Pandion

Question 43

How did Boreus respond to the delay in his suit for Orithyia?

Answer 43

He became angry and showed his power, deciding to use force and abduct Orithyia

Question 44

What was the result of the union between Boreus and Orithyia

Answer 44

They had twin boys.

Question 45

What was special about the sons of Orithyia and Boreus, Zeres and Calais

Answer 45

When they grew up, they grew wings and feathers like birds, and joined the quest for the Golden Fleece