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What mortal woman was said to be even more beautiful than Venus?

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Psyche

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Because of what beautiful woman did people stop worshipping Venus?

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Psyche

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Because of Psyche, what goddess’s temples were neglected, her altars foul with cold ashes, and her favorite towns deserted and falling in ruins?

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Venus’s

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Who was the son of Venus who she told to shoot an arrow at Psyche?

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Cupid

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What did Venus want Cupid to do to Psyche?

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shoot her with an arrow to make her fall in love with the most vilest man

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What oracle did Psyche’s father go to to ask about advice on how to get Psyche a good husband?

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Apollo’s oracle (at miletus)

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What did Apollo’s oracle advise Psyche’s father?

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To leave her on a rocky hill alone dressed in mourning and a winged serpent would take her away to be his wife

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Who, carried away by a gentle west wind…

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Psyche

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Who was waited on by formless voices?

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Psyche

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When her sisters asked her about her husband, what did Psyche tell them?

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That he was a young man who was currently away on a hunting expedition

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What did Psyche’s sisters convince her of?

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That her husband was a monster who would devour her

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What woman was told that she may never see what her husband looked like?

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Psyche

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What did Psyche do after her sisters told her that her husband was a monster?

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She lit a lamp to look at him

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What awoke cupid as psyche was looking at him?

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Hot oil from the lamp

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Who, awoken by a drip of hot oil…

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Cupid

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What was the first task Venus gave Psyche?

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to sort a pile of grain before nightfall

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Who helped psyche sort the grain?

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ants

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What was the second task Venus gave psyche?

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To fetch wool from the sheep

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Who helped psyche get the wool?

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a talking reed

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What did the talking reed advise psyche?

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to get the wool hanging in the bushes when the sheep were asleep

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What was the third task psyche was instructed to complete?

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to fetch water from the styx

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Who helped psyche retrieve water fro the styx?

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an eagle

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What was psyche’s fourth task from Venus?

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to collect some of Proserpina’s beauty

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Who helped psyche get Proserpina’s beauty?

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a talking tower

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After she opened the box of Proserpina's beauty, what happened to Psyche?
she fell into a death like sleep
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Who did Cupid ask to approve of his marriage to Psyche?
Jupiter
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Before the death of the lovers, what color were the mulberries?
white
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Where did Pyramus and Thisbe live?
Babylon
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What couple who lived in Babylon...
Pyramus and Thisbe
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Who was queen of Babylon?
Semiramus
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Discovering a crack in the wall, what couple...
Pyramus and Thisbe
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Where did Pyramus and Thisbe plan to meet up?
The tomb of Ninus
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Who was the first to make it to the tonb of Ninus?
Thisbe
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Scared away by a lion, what woman fled the tomb of ninus?
Thisbe
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Fleeing because of a lion, who dropped her cloak?
Thisbe
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Seeing the bloody cloak of his lover, what man assumed his lover to be dead?
Pyramus
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Who killed himself after assuming that a lion had killed his lover?
Pyramus
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Finding her lover dead, what woman killed herself?
Thisbe
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Why did Pyramus kill himself?
He thought thisbe was dead
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What did Pyramus do when he found out Thisbe was dead?
killed himself
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After Pyramus and Thisbe died, what color did the mulberries turn?
blood red
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Who invented the flute?
Athena
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Who invented the lyre?
Hermes
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Who was given the lyre after Hermes invented it?
Apollo
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Who invented the reed pipes?
Pan
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What mortal was the greatest musician?
Orpheus
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Where did Orpheus grow up?
Thrace
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What musician sailed with Jason on the Argo?
Orpheus
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Who played the lyre, drowning out the sound of the sirens?
Orpheus
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How did Eurydice die?
a snakebite
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Who was Orpheus in love with?
Eurydice
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The dog Cerberus relaxed his guard, the wheel of Ixion stood motionless, Sisiphus sat at rest upon his stone, Tantalus forgot his thirst, for the first time the faces of the dread goddesses, the Furies, were wet with tears....
Orpheus
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The song of what man caused action in the underworld to halt?
Orpheus
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Under what condition could Orpheus have Eurydice back?
That he would not look back at her as she followed him
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Why did Orpheus visit the underworld?
to get Eurydice back
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Who wandered through thrace playing his lyre with only trees as companions?
Orpheus
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What man was attacked by Maenads and torn limb from limb?
Orpheus
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Whose head was thrown by maenads into the river Hebrus?
Orpheus's
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Into what river was Orpheus's head thrown?
the hebrus
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Who found Orpheus's severed head?
the muses
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What son of Lucifer...
Ceyx
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What Thessalian king...
Ceyx
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What daughter of Aeolus...
Alcyone
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Where was Ceyx journeying?
Delphi
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How did Ceyx die?
He drowned
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Who did Alcyone pray to?
Juno
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In what land does no cock crow, no watchdog breaks the silence, no branches rustic in the breeze, and no clamor of tongues disturbs the peace?
The land of the cimmerians
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What goddess trails across the sky in a rainbow curve?
Iris
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Who did Juno order to ge Somnus to send Alcyone a dream?
Iris
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What son of Somnus...
Morpheus
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Who did Somnus send to tell Alcyone her husband was dead?
Morpheus
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Who appeared to Alcyone in the form of Ceyx to tell her he was dead?
Morpheus
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After what mythological character are the Halycon days named for?
Alcyone
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What general type of animal were Alcyone and Ceyx turned into?
Birds
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What sculptor of Cyprus...
Pygmalion
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What woman hater...
Pygmalion
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What cyprian man resolved never to marry?
Pygmalion
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Who fell in love with a statue he created?
Pygmalion
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What goddess turned Pygmalions statue into a real woman?
Venus
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What was the name of Pygmalion's statue?
Galetea
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Who was the son of Pygmalion and Galetea?
Paphos
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What phrygian couple...
Baucis and Philaemon
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determined to find out how hospitable humans were, what two gods wandered through Phrygia?
Jupiter and Mercury
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After knocking on hundreds of doors, what couple's house did Jupiter and Mercury arrive at?
Baucis and Philaemon's
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Whose mixing bowl never ran empty with wine?
Baucis and Philamon's
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What creature did baucis and Philaemon attempt to serve the gods?
Their goose
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what was Baucis and Philaemon's house transformed into?
A temple
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What wish did Baucis and Philaemon ask for?
to serve in the temple and then die together
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When they died, what did Baucis and Philaemon become?
Oak and Linden trees
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Who did Selene fall in love with?
Endymion
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Who sleeps forever on mount Latmus?
Endymion
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What goddess of the moon loved Endymion?
Selene
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What woman, said to be the first love of Apollo...
Daphne
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What daughter of Peneus...
Daphne
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Who was the father of Daphne?
Peneus
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Who chased Daphne?
Apollo
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What was Daphne transformed into to escape Apollo?
a laurel tree
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What tree symbolizes Apollo
the laurel tree
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Where was the sacred Spring Arethusa located?
Ortygia
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What goddess was Arethusa a follower of?
Artemis
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Who chased Arethusa after she bathed in the river?
Alpheus the river god
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Praying the Artemis, what was Arethusa transformed into?
A spring
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Who transformed Arethusa into a spring?
Artemis

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