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Who is Typhoeus?

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Child of earth (Gea) and abyss (Tartarus)

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What is the name of Hesoid’s poem that refers to creation

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Theogony

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Greek name for the divine power, the sky

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Uranus

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What did Cronus use to attack his father

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Sickle

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Where did Cronus imprison his children

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In his stomach

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What does Metis mean

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Intelligence

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What role did Hephaestos play in the birth of Metis child?

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But Zeus in the head with an axe

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Who is said to have created mankind

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Prometheus

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What was mankinds punishment for the theft of fire

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Pandora - women

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What gifts did Hermes give pandora

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A jar

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What are the 5 ages described by hesoid

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1: gold: this was those who lived in the days of Cronus
2: silver: worse than first. Didn’t respect gods
3: bronze: worse than silver. Born from ash trees
4: heroes: better than bronze
5: iron: humans

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Name of the Trojan prince Zeus was obsessed with

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Ganymede

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Inanna in Sumerian myth has the Greek equivalent of who?

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Aphrodite, Athena

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From Uranus (sky) and Gaea (earth) who were born

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The titans

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The most powerful Titans being…

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Cronus and his sister/ wife Rhea

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From rhea and Cronus came.

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The twelve Olympians

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Battle with the Titans is known as

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Titanomachy

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Who is typhoeus

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Abyss.

Fights Zeus and almost wins but instead is beaten and banished to a volcano

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Prometheus is known as?

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The protector of mortals as well as the maker of mortals

Made the human ease by mixing earth and water

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Apollo is in charge of..

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Known as the God of prophecy as well as God of plague

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Where did apollo dwell

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Hyperboreans

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Where was apollo born

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Delos

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What instrument does apollo play

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Lyre

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Cassandra is….

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She was given the gift of prophecy from apollo but no one believed her

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Who was the son of apollo and coronis
Asclepius
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Who was the parents of apollo
The titaness Leto and Zeus
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What is a common Greek symbol for Hermes
Small pillar or a pile of stones
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Pan is half man and half what
Goat
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Children of ares
Fear, harmony, panic and Eros
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Apollos priestess is called
Pythia
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Hermes stole who's cattle
Apollos
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Who is hermes mother
Main
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What did pan represent
Guardian of flocks and herds but also the master of lies
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Hermes' duty was
To help travelling merchants but almost the messenger God
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Who are ares parents
Zeus and Hera
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What does ares do
Embodiment of war and battle
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Who was ares in love with
Aphrodite
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Athena is the mistress of
War
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Artemis is the mistress of
Animals
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Demeter is the
Mistress of wheat but also the mother of Persephone
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Who revealed persephones abductor to Demeter
Helios
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Who is demophoon
Son of Celus
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What happened to demophoon that his mother found distressing
Went into fire
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What did Demeter do to force Zeus into discussing Persephones situation
Stopped growing grain
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Persephone ate what...
Pomegranate seed
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Who is triptolemus
Taught by Demeter, about her secrets to growing grain
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What does kore mean
Daughter
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What ritual practise grew out of the myth of agdestis
Castration
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What is associate with Dionysus
Figs, goats, dolphins, bulls, wine
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Name of the play that shows the best evidence of Dionysus and where is it set
Bacchae, set in Thebes
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Who are the parents of Dionysus
Semele and Zeus
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Followers of Dionysus are called
Women: Bacchae Men: satyr
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What is the name of the pine cone staff that is a symbol of Dionysus
Thyrsus
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Another name for Dionysus is?
Zagreus
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What role did Minos, rhadamanthys and aeacus play in the underworld?
Judges of the dead. Decided if people went to heaven or hell
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What was ixion's crime
Tried to have sex with Hera
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What is the ivory gate and gate of horns
Ivory: deceptive and false dreams Horns: true dreams
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Gilgamesh was the king of which city
Uruk
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What was the response when Gilgamesh was kicked out of the city
Aruru fashioned an enemy for Gilgamesh known as Enkidu
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Who was shamash and humbaba
Shamash: sun god Humbaba: guardian of the Forrest
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Who is perseus
In myth, Mycenae was founded by Perseus. Son of Zeus and Danae
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Who is io
Zeus lusted over her. Priestess of Hera. Turned into a cow, tied to a tree and guarded by argus
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Argus was killed by
Hermes
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Heracles parents
Alcemena and amphitrgon
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Why did Heracles go insane and what did he do to redeem himself
Killed his family, had to complete his 12 labours
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Whom did Heracles have to serve in offer to atone for his crime
Euryuthaus
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Which two women were turned into a nightingale and a swallow
Procne and philomela
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Name of Theseus' mother
Aethra
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Name a feat of the young thesus
Lift up the heavy rock
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Zeus came to Europa in the form of
A bull
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What did Daedalus construct for pasiphae
He created a bull suit
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Who are the parents of pasiphae
She's the daughter of helius
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Who was pasiphae married to
Minos
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How were minators created
From sex between pasiphae and the bull
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What did Minos throw into the sea and dare thesus to retrieve
A ring
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What architectural structure was Daedalus responsible for
Labyrinth
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What did Laius do to Oedipus' feet
Nailed them together
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What grew from the ground after Cadmus sowed the dragons teeth
Sparti - grown men
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What prophecy did the Delphic priestess give to the young Oedipus
Marry his mother and kill his father
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What did Oedipus do when he found his mother hanging in their bedroom
Blinded himself
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How did eteocles die
His brother, polynice killed him in the battle of Thebes
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Who was rescued by the magic ram
Helle and phyxes
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What was Jason's recognition symbol?
One sandal
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What task supposedly lead Jason to his death
Obtaining the Golden Fleece
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Name of Jason's ship
Argo
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Argonauts include
Heracles and Orpheus and castor
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Zeus appeared to lead in what form
Swan
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Who is Medea
Witch who marries Jason
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What did eris do at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Threw in the golden apple. Who was wanted by Athena, Aphrodite and Hera
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Who are the Eumenides
Furies turned good
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Why did Ajax kill himself
Because he didn't get archillies armour
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Who is polyphemus
A cyclops from the odyssey
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Who's Circe
Daughter of helius, enchantress who entertained Odysseus for years on her island
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Asclepius was the god of what
Medicine

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