Demeter Flashcards

1
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What was another greek name for Demeter?

A

Deo

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2
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Who were the parents of Demeter?

A

Cronus and Rhea

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3
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Who gave pelops his ivory shoulder?

A

Demeter

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4
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Who was seduced by Iasion?

A

Demeter

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5
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Who lay in a thrice plowed field with demeter?

A

Iasion

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6
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Which goddess lay in a thrice…

A

demeter

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7
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Iasion + demeter?

A

Plutus and Philomelus

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8
Q

Who invented the wagon?

A

Philomelus

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9
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Who did Demeter place in the stars as Bootes?

A

Philomelus

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10
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What is Drepane named for?

A

Demeter’s sickle

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11
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Where did Demeter teach the titans to sow corn?

A

Drepane

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12
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Who made flowers to grow for Persephone to pick?

A

Ge

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13
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Who changed Melpomene’s
daughters into Sirens for their unwillingness to join in the search?

A

Demeter

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14
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Who created the sirens?

A

demeter

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15
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Whose daughter’s became the sirens?

A

Melpolmene’s

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16
Q

Who told demeter that Persephone had been carried off?

A

Hecate

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17
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After speaking with Hecate, who did Demeter rush to?

A

Helius

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18
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Who told Demeter that it was Hades who carried Persephone off?

A

Helius

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19
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While Demeter was passing through Arcadia, who tried to rape her?

20
Q

Demeter + Poseidon?

21
Q

Who are the parents of Arion?

A

Poseidon and Demeter

22
Q

Whose herds did Demeter hide with to avoid Poseidon?

A

Oncius’s

23
Q

Shut in a cave on
Mount Elaeiis, near Phigalia…

24
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Who eventually found Demeter in the cave?

25
Who did Zeus send to talk to Demeter in the cave?
the fates
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Who did Demeter transform into a lizard?
Ascalabus
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Who ridiculed Demeter for drinking so greedily?
Ascalabus
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What was ascalabus turned into?
a lizard
29
Who is the wife of Celeus?
Metaneira
30
Who is the husband of Metaneira?
Celeus
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Who at Eleusis made demeter laugh?
Iambe
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Demeter sat in a comer immersed in her grief until a waiting woman induced her to smile at her quips..
Iambe
33
In her eagerness to make him immortal and ageless, Demeter...
Demophon
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Who in the underworld told on Persephone for eating pomegranate?
Ascalaphus
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What son of Acheron...
Ascalaphus
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What did Demeter turn Ascalaphus into?
an owl
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Who pinned Ascalaphus under a rock?
Demeter
38
Who did Demeter turn into an owl?
Ascalaphus
39
Who was sent to summon Demeter to Olympus?
Iris
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Who did Zeus send to reason with Demeter?
Rhea
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Who gave Triptolemus a dragon drawn chariot?
Demeter
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Who did Demeter give a dragon drawn chariot?
Triptolemus
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Who flew through the air sowing corn, or else teaching the people of many lands how to cultivate grains?
Triptolemus
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Who did demeter give a fig tree to?
Phytalus
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What did Demeter give to Phytalus?
a fig tree
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What festival did Triptolemus establish?
Thesmophoria
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Three people that might have helped Demeter with finding Persephone
Hecate, Helius, Arethusa