Midterm 4/29

Question 1

Hades

Answer 1

Pluto
God of Underworld
Married to Persephone
Owner of Cerberus
Kingdom condemns all lives to perish

Question 2

Persephone

Answer 2

Prosperina
Daughter of Demeter
Kidnapped by Hades to be his wife for half the year
Queen of Underworld

Question 3

Tartaros

Answer 3

The Underworld

Question 4

Elysian Fields

Answer 4

Final resting place for heroic and virtuous souls

Question 5

River Styx

Answer 5

River in Underworld
Personified by a river goddess
The principal stream

Question 6

River Lethe

Answer 6

River in Underworld

Drinking this water caused souls about to be reincarnated in new bodies to forget their past lives and sufferings

Question 7

Charon

Answer 7

Creature whose job is to ferry souls across the Styx River

Question 8

Cerberus

Answer 8

Hound of Hell

Multiple headed dog that guards the Underworld’s entrance

Question 9

Tiresias

Answer 9

Had his gender switched multiple times by gods because he kept separating snakes mating
Sided with Zeus on an argument with Hera so she struck him blind
Zeus made him able to see the future

Question 10

Orpheus

Answer 10

Sweet singing and playing of the lyre
Went to Underworld to bring back Eurydice
Persuaded the King and Queen to allow her exit if he didn’t look back
He failed and she wasn’t set free

Question 11

Eurydice

Answer 11

Fled own wedding because she was being chased by Aristaeus
Bitten and killed by a snake
Stuck in Underworld because of Orpheus’s failed rescue

Question 12

Tityus

Answer 12

Attempted to rape Leto

Punishment: Tied spread eagle to ground to have vultures feed on his liver

Question 13

Tantalus

Answer 13

Served the gods his own son for them to eat

Punishment: Intolerable hunger or thirst

Question 14

Sisyphus

Answer 14

Trickster that always tried to dupe gods
Ceased death of mortals by capturing death himself
Punishment: Roll stone uphill only to have it roll down every single time

Question 15

Ixion

Answer 15

Assaulted Hera in attempt to take Zeus’s place

Punishment: Bound to a fiery wheel that rolls perpetually through the air

Question 16

Dionysus

Answer 16

Bacchus
Son of Semele and Zeus
Born out of Zeus’s thigh
Married Ariadne
Able to bring back the dead from the Underworld
Only god with a mortal parent
Had a cult after being sent to the mountains (hiding from Hera)

Question 17

Semele

Answer 17

Mortal
Mother of Dionysus
Daughter of Cadmus
Killed by Zeus’s outstanding power when pregnant with son
Hera had tricked her into making Zeus promise her he will reveal himself to get her killed bc she slept with him

Question 18

Cadmus

Answer 18

Married to Harmonia
Hero gained Athena’s help
Founded city of Thebes
Father, Agenor, sent him to find his sister, Europa, after she was kidnapped by Zeus
Unable to find her, he seeks help from Apollo
Slays a serpent on the way to build the city
Buried serpents teeth and men sprout from ground
Him and wife eventually turned to snakes instead of dying

Question 19

Satyrs

Answer 19

Half man, half goat

Male followers of Dionysus

Question 20

Silenus

Answer 20

Companion and tutor to Dionysus
Attributes of a horse rather than goat
Oldest, wisest, drunkest follower of Dionysus
Prophecy when drunk

Question 21

Maenads/Bacchantes

Answer 21

Female followers of Dionysus

Crazy women that drove people mad

Question 22

Hermes & Dionysus

Answer 22

Brings him away from Hera and to Mt. Nysa

Question 23

Nymphs at Mt. Nysa

Answer 23

Raised Dionysus in order from Zeus to hide him from Hera

Eventually became constellations in the night sky

Question 24

Pentheus

Answer 24

Dionysus’s cousin that rules Thebes and Dionysus wanted recent on him so he was lured to the woods
Maenads saw him and mistook him for an animal so they ripped him to shreds
His mother, Agave, was included but she did not know it was her son she was tearing apart

Question 25

Agave

Answer 25

Helps kill her own son Part of Maenads Dionysus's Aunt

Question 26

Pattern of the Quest

Answer 26

``` Unusual Birth Seeking a special object Journeys to a new place Faces the antagonist Receives help from someone Temporarily thwarted by enemy Overcomes enemy, usually killing it Gets the girl, special object, and/or kingdom ```

Question 27

The Girl's Tragedy

Answer 27

``` Prohibition Seclusion Violation of prohibition Threat of punishment or death Liberation ```

Question 28

Epaphus

Answer 28

``` Son of Zeus and Io Name means touch Conceived by touch Born in Euboea, in a cave near the Nile Io found him after Hera had concealed him ```

Question 29

Hercules

Answer 29

Born to Zeus and Alcmene (demi-god, hero) Hera hated him and drove him mad Killed people because of madness Punishment was 12 labors Kept committing crimes so more punishments were given After death, he ascended to Olympus

Question 30

Eurystheus

Answer 30

The one who gave Hercules his punishments

Question 31

Copreus

Answer 31

Son of Pelops | Announced Hercules labors

Question 32

The 12 Labors

Answer 32

``` Neaman Lion Hydra Hind Boar Cleaning Stables Golden Apples Birds Bull Mares Girdle/Belt Cattle Capturing Cerberus ```

Question 33

Parerga

Answer 33

Events that took place during Heracles labors

Question 34

Praxeis

Answer 34

Another name for Aphrodite

Question 35

What is Hercules known to be seen with?

Answer 35

Lion's skin, club, bow

Question 36

Wives of Hercules

Answer 36

Megara Omphale Deinaira Iole

Question 37

Megara

Answer 37

Allowed to marry Hercules because of his defending Thebes | Bored him 2 children, which he killed

Question 38

Iris

Answer 38

Goddess of the sea and sky Links the gods to humanity Able to go into Underworld

Question 39

Theseus

Answer 39

Born to Aithra and Aigeus Once an adult, he goes to find his father with sword and sandals Encounters and defeats a bunch of people on the way Abandons Ariadne after she saved his life Forgets to signal hes safe and father kills himself New king of Athens

Question 40

Erichthonius

Answer 40

Rumored to be lame King of Athens Born from Athena though she is a virgin goddess (because Hephaestus tried to rape her) Chariot driver

Question 41

Cephalus

Answer 41

Lover of Eos (dawn goddess) | Son of Hermes and Herse

Question 42

Procris

Answer 42

Married Cephalus

Question 43

Tereus

Answer 43

Married to Procne Had affair with her sister Sister told her She killed their son and fed it to Tereus He found out, tried to kill all of the sisters Gods turned them all into birds

Question 44

Pittheus

Answer 44

Theseus's Grandfather | Hippolytus's Great Grandfather

Question 45

Periphetes

Answer 45

Lame in 1 leg Had 1 eye like his father (Hephaestus) Killed by Theseus

Question 46

Sinis

Answer 46

Killed by Theseus on his way to Athens | Flung/tore apart by trees

Question 47

Sciron

Answer 47

Killed by Theseus on his way to Athens | Kicked into sea to be eaten by giant turtle

Question 48

Procrustes

Answer 48

Killed by Theseus on his way to Athens | Stretched/cut people to fit into their beds

Question 49

Pirithous

Answer 49

Zeus's best friend that is in the Underworld forever

Question 50

Erysichthon

Answer 50

The more he ate the hungrier he got