Ovid's Metamorphoses

Question 1

Apollo

Answer 1

God of sun and light. Son of Zeus

Question 2

Daphne

Answer 2

Nymph of fountains, wells, streams. Attracted Apollo who saw her naked, tried to rape her & she was then transformed into a laurel tree

Question 3

Io

Answer 3

Nymph loved by Zeus, transformed into a cow

Question 4

Juno

Answer 4

Wife of Zeus

Question 5

Argus

Answer 5

Monster that guards Io for Juno

Question 6

Syrinx

Answer 6

Nymph pursued by Pan, known for chastity, transformed into river reeds

Question 7

Pan

Answer 7

Tried to rape Syrinx

Question 8

Callisto

Answer 8

Nymph. Zues disguised himself as Diana, and raped her. Once they found out she was pregnant, she was turned into a bear. Her son was about to shoot her while hunting, made into constillation

Question 9

Diana

Answer 9

Goddess of hunting. Twin brother of Apollo. Turned Callisto into bear

Question 10

Eurpoa

Answer 10

Abducted by Zues in the form of a white bull

Question 11

Echo

Answer 11

Distracted Zeus’ wife while he raped the nymphs. She got annoyed, and made it so she could only talk in echos

Question 12

Arachne

Answer 12

Weaver. Contest with Athena, hangs herself and gets turned into a spider

Question 13

Semele

Answer 13

Has affair with Zues who disguised himself. Hera disguises herself and convinces her that her lover was Zeus. Semele makes Zeus promise to reveal himself, and she dies when the sex is too powerful. Zeus rescued baby, and sews him into his thigh.

Question 14

Bacchus

Answer 14

god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy

Question 15

Tiresias

Answer 15

blind prophet of Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years

Question 16

Narcissus

Answer 16

Fell in love with his own reflection and died

Question 17

Salmacis

Answer 17

Nymph who tried to rape Hermaphroditus

Question 18

Hermaphroditus

Answer 18

he was transformed into an androgynous being by union with the water nymph Salmacis

Question 19

Minerva

Answer 19

She was the virgin goddess of music, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, and magic.[

Question 20

Tereus

Answer 20

Tereus desired his wife’s sister, Philomela. He forced himself upon her, then cut her tongue out and held her captive so she could never tell anyone. When Tereus learned what she had done, he tried to kill the sisters but all three were changed by the Olympian Gods into birds

Question 21

Procne

Answer 21

Wife of King Tereus

Question 22

Philomela

Answer 22

Raped by Tereus

Question 23

Orpheus

Answer 23

Tried to get his wife Eurydice from underworld. Turned around too soon and she vanished forever

Question 24

Eurydice

Answer 24

Sent to underworld. Wife of Orpheus

Question 25

Pygmalion

Answer 25

a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved

Question 26

Myrrha

Answer 26

he was transformed into a myrrh tree after having had intercourse with her father and gave birth to Adonis as a tree.