Love Stories

Question 1

What Cypriot sculptor was a notorious woman-hater and resolved to fashion his perfect woman?

Answer 1

Pygmalion

Question 2

What fruit changes its shade from white to red/purple after it was dyed with the blood of Pyramus and Thisbe?

Answer 2

Mulberry

Question 3

Following their wedding, Hippomenes and Atalanta end up at a temple sacred to what goddess?

Answer 3

Cybele/Magna Mater

Question 4

What Calydonian king and father of Meleager forgot to honor Artemis at a banquet?

Answer 4

Oeneus

Question 5

Whose head flows down the river Hebrus all the way to Lesbos after he was mauled by the Maenads?

Answer 5

Orpheus

Question 6

What son of Apollo and Cyrene spots Eurydice preparing for her wedding to Orpheus and chases her through the forest?

Answer 6

Aristaeus

Question 7

Into what types of tree did Baucis & Philemon transform upon their death?

Answer 7

Oak & Linden

Question 8

Who was the first of the hunters to wound the Calydonian Boar?

Answer 8

Atalanta

Question 9

What river god rescues his daughter Daphne from Apollo by turning her into a laurel tree?

Answer 9

Pene(i)us

Question 10

By throwing golden apples way off track, who is finally able to defeat Atalanta in a race and become her husband?

Answer 10

Hippomenes/Melanion

Question 11

What kind of animal scares away Thisbe from King Ninus’s tomb and bloodies up her veil?

Answer 11

Lion(ess)

Question 12

For what physical ability is Atalanta best known?

Answer 12

Speed

Question 13

After Atalanta delivers the first strike, what prince ultimately kills the Calydonian Boar?

Answer 13

Meleager

Question 14

What group of sisters find Orpheus’s body and bury him in Pieria?

Answer 14

Muses

Question 15

To whom does Meleager offer the spoils of the Calydonian boar hunt?

Answer 15

Atalanta

Question 16

What king is so upset that Atalanta was born a girl that he abandons his daughter on a mountainside?

Answer 16

Iasus/Schoeneus

Question 17

Into what type of tree did Peneus transform his daughter Daphne?

Answer 17

Laurel

Question 18

Because Oeneus had forgotten to sacrifice to her, what animal did Artemis send to ravage the country of Calydon?

Answer 18

(Calydonian) Boar

Question 19

While she was being chased by Aristaeus the beekeeper, how did Eurydice die?

Answer 19

Snake bite

Question 20

What items does Aphrodite give to Hippomenes to help him defeat Atalanta in the footrace?

Answer 20

(Three) Golden Apples

Question 21

What occupation did Aristaeus have?

Answer 21

Beekeeper

Question 22

What name is given to the son of Pygmalion & Galatea?

Answer 22

Paphos

Question 23

What name did Pygmalion give to his statue of his perfect woman?

Answer 23

Galatea

Question 24

In what city did Pyramus and Thisbe live?

Answer 24

Ninus

Question 25

What man resolves himself to marry Atalanta and visits Aphrodite for help?

Answer 25

Hippomenes/Melanion

Question 26

What pair of lovers could only speak through a crack in the wall due to their feuding families?

Answer 26

Pyramus & Thisbe

Question 27

Right after she gave birth to Meleager, what Calydonian queen is gifted a magic log by the Fates which is tied to her son's life?

Answer 27

Althea

Question 28

From what island did Pygmalion hail?

Answer 28

Cyprus

Question 29

What group of Bacchic worshippers spot the depressed Orpheus and rip him to shreds?

Answer 29

Maenads

Question 30

Because Meleager had killed her brothers Toxeus and Plexippus, what mother of Meleager kills her son by throwing the log into a fire?

Answer 30

Althea

Question 31

What type of animal spots the infant Atalanta on a mountainside and nurses her back to health?

Answer 31

Bear

Question 32

What Calydonian prince, the son of Oeneus and Althea, had his life tied to a log?

Answer 32

Meleager

Question 33

Whose old couple's hut was transformed into a temple after they demonstrated hospitality to Jupiter & Mercury?

Answer 33

Baucis & Philemon

Question 34

To what goddess did Pygmalion pray for true love, only for her to give life to his statue Galatea?

Answer 34

Venus

Question 35

Because Baucis & Philemon were the only citizens to help the disguised Jupiter & Mercury, what did Jupiter do to the rest of the town?

Answer 35

Flooded them

Question 36

With what musical instrument does Orpheus charm Hades and Persephone?

Answer 36

Lyre

Question 37

Because Hippomenes never properly thanked Aphrodite, he and Atalanta are transformed into what type of animal?

Answer 37

Lions

Question 38

In order to test the hospitality of mortals, what two deities disguised as beggars and visited Phrygian citizens door-to-door until they reached Baucis & Philemon?

Answer 38

Jupiter & Mercury

Question 39

What wish did Baucis & Philemon make to Jupiter & Mercury?

Answer 39

That one would not have to live without the other

Question 40

At what king's tomb (the late husband of the Babylonian queen Semiramis) did Pyramus and Thisbe agree to meet?

Answer 40

Ninus

Question 41

Hades allows Eurydice to leave the Underworld with Orpheus under what one condition?

Answer 41

That Orpheus not look back at her

Question 42

What nymph is shot with an arrow of lead, causing her to deeply hate Apollo?

Answer 42

Daphne

Question 43

What would happen to anyone who lost to Atalanta in a footrace?

Answer 43

They would die and their skull is displayed on the racetrack

Question 44

What Phrygian couple graciously welcomed 2 beggars into their home who turned out to be Jupiter and Mercury?

Answer 44

Baucis & Philemon

Question 45

With what nymph does Orpheus fall in love?

Answer 45

Eurydice

Question 46

Toxeus and Plexippus chastise what nephew of theirs for giving up the spoils of the Calydonian Boar hunt?

Answer 46

Meleager

Question 47

Whose archery skills does Apollo ridicule for which he's forced to love a nymph who will never love him back?

Answer 47

Eros (Cupid)

Question 48

What muse of Epic Poetry is the mother of Orpheus by Apollo?

Answer 48

Calliope