Myth Myth

Question 1

What boy, a son of Clymene, drove Apollo’s chariot with disastrous results?

Answer 1

Phaethon

Question 2

What king of Ithaca was tricked into fighting during the Trojan War?

Answer 2

Odysseus

Question 3

With what deity were the leopard, ivy, grapes, and Maenads associated?

Answer 3

Dionysus/Bacchus

Question 4

Zeus, worried at the destruction Phaethon caused, stopped him how?

Answer 4

With his lightning bolts

Question 5

Into what river did Phaethon fall?

Answer 5

Eridanus

Question 6

Who tricked Odysseus into revealing that he was not in fact crazy?

Answer 6

Palamedes

Question 7

Whom did Palamedes put in danger to cause Odysseus to reveal himself?

Answer 7

Telemachus

Question 8

What was the pine-cone topped staff which the Maenads carried called?

Answer 8

Thyrsus

Question 9

What daughter of Minos became Dionysus’ wife?

Answer 9

Ariadne

Question 10

What supreme Roman god had a temple on the Capitoline hill?

Answer 10

Jupiter

Question 11

With what two goddesses did Jupiter Optimus Maximus share his temple on the
Capitoline, thus creating the Capitoline Triad?

Answer 11

Minerva and Juno

Question 12

Juno had another temple on top of the Capitoline, in which the mint was located.
What was the full name of the goddess to whom this temple was dedicated?

Answer 12

Juno Moneta

Question 13

Which river of the underworld was the river of forgetfulness?

Answer 13

Lethe

Question 14

Which river of the underworld was the river of woe?

Answer 14

Acheron

Question 15

Which river of the underworld was the river of fire

Answer 15

Phlegethon

Question 16

What object’s retrieval was the purpose of the quest of the Argo?

Answer 16

The Golden Fleece

Question 17

Who captained the Argo?

Answer 17

Jason

Question 18

What goddess was the protectress of Jason because when she was disguised as an
old woman, he carried her across a river?

Answer 18

Hera

Question 19

What hero traveled to the underworld to retrieve his wife who died from a snake bite?

Answer 19

Orpheus

Question 20

Who was the wife of Orpheus?

Answer 20

Eurydice

Question 21

What condition did Hades and Persephone place on the couple (Orpheus and Euridice) when they left the
underworld?

Answer 21

That Orpheus couldn’t look back at Eurydice

Question 22

Who am I? I was disguised as a girl and hidden away in the court of the king of Scyrus. As
a baby I was made invulnerable. I became the most fearsome warrior at Troy and killed Hector.

Answer 22

Achillies

Question 23

What was the name of the king at whose court was Achilles hidden as a young boy?

Answer 23

Lycomodes

Question 24

Who killed Achilles with a well-placed arrow and Apollo’s help?

Answer 24

Paris

Question 25

What man was punished in the underworld by being eternally hungry and thirsty?

Answer 25

Tantalus

Question 26

Tantalus was punished for the murder of whom?

Answer 26

Pelops (his son)

Question 27

For what ability of the gods was Tantalus testing when he served his son as a meal to the gods?

Answer 27

Omniscience

Question 28

Who, after he defeated the Solymi and Amazons, tried to fly Pegasus to Olympus?

Answer 28

Bellerophon

Question 29

What mythical beast did Bellerophon kill while riding Pegasus?

Answer 29

Chimera

Question 30

What Lycian king sent Bellerophon to kill the Chimera?

Answer 30

Iobates

Question 31

What feat did the hero Heracles perform that saved both himself and his brother when he was just an infant?

Answer 31

Strangle two snakes in his crib

Question 32

Who sent the snakes to kill Heracles?

Answer 32

Hera

Question 33

Heracles was revealed as the immortal son of Zeus by his lack of fear. His brother screamed at the appearance of the snakes, proving he was the mortal son of whom?

Answer 33

Amphitryon

Question 34

What monster was part snake, had wings and bronze claws, and could turn men to stone?

Answer 34

Gorgons (or Medusa)

Question 35

Who killed Medusa?

Answer 35

Perseus

Question 36

Medusa was not always a hideous monster, but a maiden changed by the wrath of what goddess?

Answer 36

Athena

Question 37

What king left a pair of sandals and a sword under a rock for his son to find?

Answer 37

Aegeus

Question 38

Who was the son who found the sandals and sword Aegeus left under a rock?

Answer 38

Theseus

Question 39

Of what city was Aegeus king?

Answer 39

Athens

Question 40

What boy did not obey his father’s instructions and flew too close to the sun?

Answer 40

Icarus

Question 41

Who was Icarus’ father?

Answer 41

Daedalus

Question 42

From what island were Daedalus and Icarus escaping?

Answer 42

Crete

Question 43

What monstrous bird women promised sailors what they most wanted to hear in their songs?

Answer 43

Sirens

Question 44

Who had changed the Sirens into monsters?

Answer 44

Muses

Question 45

What hero sailed past the sirens successfully?

Answer 45

Odysseus

Question 46

What Titan, although he was warned not to accept gifts, took Pandora as his wife?

Answer 46

Epimetheus

Question 47

Who was the brother who warned Epimetheus?

Answer 47

Prometheus

Question 48

Prometheus himself was a gift giver. What gift did he steal from the gods and give to men so that they could cook their food and stay warm?

Answer 48

Fire

Question 49

What monster, with razor sharp claws, was killed by Heracles as his first labor?

Answer 49

Nemean Lion

Question 50

What monster did Heracles capture by chasing it into the snow?

Answer 50

Erymanthian Boar

Question 51

What creatures did Heracles capture with bronze nets given to him by Athena?

Answer 51

Stymphalian Birds

Question 52

What man was predicted by the seer of Thebes to kill his father and marry his mother?

Answer 52

Oedipus

Question 53

Name the father and the mother whom Oedipus killed and married.

Answer 53

Laius and Jocasta/Epicasta

Question 54

Who was the seer who made this prediction (Oedipus)?

Answer 54

Teiresias

Question 55

What type of tree did Phaethon’s sisters (Heliadies) turn into?

Answer 55

Poplar

Question 56

What king sent Bellerophon to Iobates?

Answer 56

Proitis