Places to Know

Question 1

Stoa Poekile

Answer 1

A building on which the Amazonamachy was painted on (amongst others). The Amazons were dressed as Persians

Question 2

Return to Argos

Answer 2

Perseus

Question 3

Skyros

Answer 3

Where Theseus died, and where Odysseus exposed Achilles. Also where Neoptolemus (son of Achilles) was living before joining the Trojan war.

Question 4

Thespius

Answer 4

Fifty daughters that Herakles has sex with

Question 5

Aeaea

Answer 5

The island of Circe

Question 6

King of Athens

Answer 6

Aegeus

Question 7

Ithica

Answer 7

Where Odysseus is from

Question 8

Ogygia

Answer 8

Where Odysseus is detained by Callypso

Question 9

Crete

Answer 9

The location of the Minotaur; Theseus travels here

This is also where Rheia hid Zeus as a baby, and where Zeus was raised (in a cave)

Question 10

Attica

Answer 10

The area around Athens. Theseus was said to have organized it (local Athenian hero).

Question 11

King of Argos

Answer 11

Acrisius

Question 12

King of Uruk

Answer 12

Gilgamesh

Question 13

King of Troezen

Answer 13

Pittheus

Question 14

Areopagus

Answer 14

Meaning the “hill of Ares”. The location of the Amazonamachy instigated by Theseus by taking Hippolyta.

Also the location of the first trial by jury for homicide with Orestes

Question 15

Naxos

Answer 15

The island that Theseus leaves Ariadne on. Liminal space of Ariadne.

Question 16

Aulis

Answer 16

Where the Greeks gather before heading to Troy

Question 17

Corinth

Answer 17

Jason and Medea have two sons here

Polybus and Merope adopted Oedipus here

Question 18

Pylos

Answer 18

Where Athena sends Telemachus to go to ask Nestor about Odysseus

Question 19

Thrinakia

Answer 19

Island with Helios’ sheep

Question 20

Seriphos

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Perseus

Question 21

Laestrygonian shore

Answer 21

Where most of Odysseus’ men were killed by giants

Question 22

Ethiopia

Answer 22

Cassiopeia and Cepheus (Andromeda’s parents)

Question 23

King of Tiryns and Mycenae

Answer 23

Perseus

Question 24

Mt. Ida

Answer 24

Where Paris was raised after Hecuba’s prophecy.

Question 25

Athens to Troezen

Answer 25

The road that Theseus made safer

Question 26

Iolcus, Thessaly

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Home of Jason (as well as Aeolus, Aeson, and Pelias)

Question 27

Colchis

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Where the Golden Fleece lies; it is up to Jason to retrieve it The royal family includes the descendants of Helios

Question 28

Scheria

Answer 28

Island of Nausicaa and the Phaeacians

Question 29

Aegean Sea

Answer 29

Location of King Aegeus' suicide

Question 30

Sparta

Answer 30

Helen from Sparta. Theseus attempts to marry her (Pirithous attempts to marry Persephone) and they become trapped in the underworld.

Question 31

Thebes

Answer 31

Cadmus and the autochthonous family Labdacus' family and Oedipus' true family

Question 32

Phthia, Thessaly

Answer 32

Peleus

Question 33

Statue of Pallas Athena

Answer 33

Troy

Question 34

Lemnos

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The place where Philoktetes was left alone for over 10 years due to a snake bite. The island was volcanic, and sacred to Hephaestus. Hephaestus has a cult site on it.

Question 35

Where do Menelaus and Helen end up living together?

Answer 35

In Sparta

Question 36

Myecenaean cities? (heroes x2)

Answer 36

Menelaus and Nestor

Question 37

Mt. Helikon

Answer 37

Home of the 9 muses

Question 38

Mekone

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Prometheus acting as sacrificial priest in Theogony and Works and Days (Hesiod). This is where the first sacrificial feast occurred.

Question 39

Epidauros

Answer 39

Where Athenian tragedies, such as Prometheus Bound were held - great acoustics in open air

Question 41

Where was Leda the queen of?

Answer 41

Sparta

Question 42

Thrace

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Sacred island of Hephaestus - where he pretends to flee to when he sets the trap for Aphrodite and Ares

Question 43

Delos

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A floating island. Delos agrees to let Leto give birth on their island as long as a temple is built for Apollo there. She gives birth clinging to a palm tree. The name Delos means "bright" or "shining".

Question 44

Letoon

Answer 44

The Temple built in honour of Apollo at Delos

Question 45

Pytho

Answer 45

Delphi

Question 46

Telphusa

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A river that denied Apollo, and did not allow him to build his temple there

Question 47

Acropolis

Answer 47

The hill that the Parthenon is on in Athens

Question 48

Sacred temple for Hephaestus?

Answer 48

Hephaesteion, Athens

Question 49

Mt. Nysa

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Where Dionysus was raised, by nymphs, as a goat

Question 50

Phyrgia

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Where Cybele, the mother-goddess was from (see Dionysus)

Question 51

Styx, Acheron

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Rivers that the dead must cross before reaching the underworld. Charon is the ferryman

Question 52

Elysium

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A paradise, full of light and music, opposite to Tartarus

Question 53

Tartarus

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The "cellar of Hades", where the worst sinners go

Question 54

Thebes, Corinth, Delphi

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Oedipus

Question 55

Colonus

Answer 55

Sacred to the Furies The place of death of Oedipus, as predicted by the oracle at Delphi

Question 56

Thracia

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The home of Tereus, who takes Procne, an Athenian princess as his wife. Thracia is not in Greece, it is considered foreign

Question 57

Avernus

Answer 57

Orpheus cannot look back at Eurydice until he has passed Avernus

Question 58

Lesbos

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An island associated with love. The river Hebrus takes Orpheus' head and lyre here. This is where Sappho is from.

Question 59

Phaeacia

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Where Cadmus is from (not Greek) before he establishes Thebes, after slaying a dragon and sowing the teeth

Question 60

River Lethe

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Where Anchises was found in the Isles of the Blessed

Question 61

Gate of Ivory

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Also known as the gate of false dreams: where Aeneas exits out of the underworld from

Question 62

Latium

Answer 62

Where Rome is now (Amata, Latinus and Lavinia)

Question 63

Arcadia

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Evander - a king allied with Aeneas

Question 64

Sacred to the Furies

Answer 64

Colonus, where Oedipus will die