Locodays 1 Flashcards
(136 cards)
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What was Persephone’s Roman name?
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Proserpina
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What was the staff that Bacchus carried?
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Thyrsus
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What Roman god carried a staff called Caduceus?
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Mercury
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Who was Diana’s greek equivalent?
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Artemis
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Who was the roman god that had the symbol of the anvil?
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Vulcan
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Which Roman god is associated with vultures, dogs, and spears?
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Mars
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Who was the Roman goddess of the hearth?
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Vestra
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Who was the Roman goddess of wheat and agriculture?
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Ceres
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Which Roman goddess is associated with a cow?
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Juno
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What was the name of Dis’s two pronged spear?
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bident
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Who were the children of the following: Aegeus (Poseidon?) and Aegeus
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Theseus
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Who were the children of the following: Zeus and Danae
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Perseus
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Who were the children of the following: Amphitryon (Zeus) and Alcmene
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Heracles
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Who were the children of the following: Peleus and Thetis
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Achilles
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Who were the children of the following: Anchises and Aphrodite
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Aeneas
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Who were the children of the following: Atreus and Aerope
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Menelaus and Agamemnon
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Who were the children of the following: Aeson and Alcimide
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Jason
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Who were the children of the following: Laertes and Anticlea
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Odysseus
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Who were the children of the following: Aeneas and Creusa
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Ascanius (Iulus)
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Who were the children of the following: Cepheus and Cassiopeia
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Andromeda
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Who were the children of the following: Zeus and Semele
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Dionysus
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Who were the children of the following: Zeus and Maia
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Hermes
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Who were the children of the following: Zeus and Leto
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Apollo and Artemis
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Who were the children of the following: Tyndareus and Leda
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Clytemnestra and Castor
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Who were the children of the following: Odysseus and Penelope
Telemachus
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Who were the children of the following: Priam and Hecuba
Hector, Paris, Cassandra, and Helenus
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Who were the children of the following: Aeetes
Medea
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Who were the children of the following: Peneius
Daphne
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Who were the children of the following: Zeus and Europa
Minos, Sharpedon, Rhadamanthys
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Who were the children of the following: Zeus and Aegina
Aeacus
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Who were the children of the following: Zeus and Leda
Helen and Polydeuces
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Who were the parents of the following: Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
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Who were the parents of the following: Ariadne and Phaedra
Minos and Pasiphae
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Who were the parents of the following: Astyanax
Hector and Andromache
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Why did king Midas receive Donkey ears?
He thought Pan was a better musician than Apollo
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Who defeated Atlanta in a race by using golden apples?
Hippomenes
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How did Bellerophon tame the pegasus?
He used a golden bridle
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Who killed the Chimaera?
Bellerophon
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Which two people repopulated the Earth using stones?
Deucalion and Pyrrha
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Which two priests became oak and linden trees after being hospital to Zeus and Hermes?
Baucis and Philemon
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What couple turned mulberries red with their blood?
Pyramus and Thisbe
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Why was Tithonus turned into a grasshopper?
Aurora asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth
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Who killed the Calydonian boar?
Meleager
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How was the son of Oeneus killed?
Althaea, his mom, burned his live log
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What was the punishment for Ixion in the underworld?
Spinning wheel of fire
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What was the punishment for Tityus in the underworld?
bird ate at his liver daily
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What was the punishment for Sisyphus in the underworld?
Rolls boulder up hill
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What was the punishment for Tantalus in the underworld?
eternal hunger and thirst
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What was the punishment for the Danaids in the underworld?
carry water in leaky buckets.
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Who was punished by being surrounded by a spinning wheel of fire?
Ixion
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Who was punished by having a bird eat at his liver daily?
Tityus
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Who was punished by being forced to roll a boulder up a hill?
Sisyphus
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Who was punished by eternal hunger and thirst?
Tantalus
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Who was punished by being force to carry water in leaky buckets?
The Danaid sisters.
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What was Heracles' birth name?
Alcides
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Who was Heracles' twin?
Iphicles
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What was the name of the wife that Heracles killed?
Megaera
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What was the third labor of Heracles?
He had to capture the golden hind of Artemis
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What was the fifth labor of Heracles?
clean the Augean stables
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What was the sixth labor of Heracles?
slay the Stymphalian birds
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What was the eighth labor of Heracles?
steal the mares of Diomedes
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What was the ninth labor of Heracles?
obtain the Girdle of the Amazon Queen
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What was the tenth labor of Heracles?
obtain the cattle of Geryon
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Who was Heracles' second wife?
Deianeira
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Where was Jason's father, Aeson, the king?
Iolcus
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How did Pelias, Jason's brother, become king of Iolcus?
He took it over with his army
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Who was Jason Carrying across a river when he lost a shoe?
Hera
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Where did Jason and the Argonauts have to sail to get the golden fleece?
Colchis
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What were the Symplegades that the Argonauts had to sail through?
Clashing Rocks
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What was the first task Aeetes had Jason do?
Sow the ground with a fire breathing bull
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What grew from the dragon teeth that Jason planted?
soliders
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Who was Aeetes' daughter?
Medea
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Who was the princess of Corinth that Jason wished to marry?
Glauce
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Who was Medea?s brother that she killed?
Absyrtus
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What did Aegeus leave Theseus under a boulder?
A sword and pair of sandals
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Which way did Theseus take to get to Athens?
He traveled by land
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Who did Theseus encounter that beat people with a golden club?
Periphites
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Who did Theseus encounter that tied people to trees and ripped them apart?
Sinis
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Who did Theseus encounter that made people wash his feel and then pushed them off a cliff?
Sciron
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Who did Theseus encounter that stretched people to fit beds?
Procrustes
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What son of Minos was killed by the Marathonian Bull?
Androgeos
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Who told Theseus to use string in the Labyrinth?
Ariadne, daughter of Minos
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What island did Theseus leave Ariadne?
Naxos
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Why did Aegeus kill himself?
Theseus forgot to take down his black sails.
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Who did Acrisius put in in a bronze tower?
Danae
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How did Zeus visit Danae?
In a shower of Gold
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To whom did Perseus promise to bring the head of Medusa?
Polydectes
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What did Perseus bring with him to slay Medusa?
A curved sword, invisible helment, winged sandals, and a magic bag
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Who helped Perseus find Medusa?
Hermes, Athena, the Graiae, and the Stygian Nymphs
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What two creatures sprung from Medusa's neck?
Pegasus and Chrysaor
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Why was Andromeda being sacrificed to Ceto?
Cassiopeia said Andromeda was prettier than Thetis
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How did Perseus kill Acrisius, his grandfather?
He slipped and hit him with a discus
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To whom did Perseus give Medusa's head?
Athena
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Who did Perseus turn to stone?
Phineus and Polydectes
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Who was Calliope?
The muse of Epic Poetry
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Who was Clio?
The muse of History
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Who was Erato?
The muse of Love Poetry
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Who was Euterpe?
The muse of Music
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Who was Melponmene?
The muse of Tragedy
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Who was Polyhymnia?
The muse of Hymns
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Who was Terpsichore?
The muse of Dance
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Who was Urania?
The muse of Astronomy
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Who was Thalia?
The muse of Comedy or the Grace of Good Cheer (Two different people)
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Who was Aglaia?
The Grace of Beauty
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Who was Euphrosyne?
The Grace of Mirth
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Who was Clotho?
The fate that spun
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Who was Lachesis?
The fate that allotted
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Who was Atropos?
The fate that cut the thread (inevitable)
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Who was Alecto?
A fury
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Who was Megaera?
A fury
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Who was Tisiphone?
A fury
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What was the river Styx?
The river of hate or the oath of gods
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What was the river Lethe?
The river of forgetfulness
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What was the river Phlegethon?
The river of fire
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What was the river Cocytus?
The river of wailing
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What was the river Acheron
The river of pain
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What monster was a whirlpool?
Charybdis
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What monster was part lion, goat, and snake?
Chimera
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What monster was a dog with three heads?
Cerberus
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What monster had a horses's body, and a man's torso, head, and arms?
Centaur
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What monster was half nymph, half snake, and the mother of all monsters?
Echidna
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What monster was a dog with two heads?
Orthus or Orthrus
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What monster was part goat, part man?
Satyr
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What monster had six heads?
Scylla
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What monster was a cyclops with one eye?
Polyphemus
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What hero encountered Polyphemus, Charybdis, and Scylla?
Odysseus
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Who was the husband of Helen and the king of Sparta?
Menelaus
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Who was the husband of Clytemnestra and the of Mycenae?
Agamemnon
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Who was the son of Pelias and Thetis?
Achilles
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Who was the father of Telemachus and husband of Penelope?
Odysseus
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Who was orginally named Podarces, nicknamed the "ransomed one," and was the king of troy??
Priam
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Who was the wife of Priam, mother of Cassandra, Helenus, Paris, and Hector?
Hecuba
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Who was the Trojan?s best fighter?
Hector
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Who used an arrow to kill Achilles?
Paris
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Who helped Paris kill Achilles?
Apollo
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Who was known as the Greek's second greatest fighter?
Ajax the greater
