Week 6

Question 1

Rolls boulder up hill

Answer 1

Sisyphus

Question 1

Spinning wheel of fire

Answer 1

Ixion

Question 2

Bird eats liver daily

Answer 2

Tityus

Question 3

Eternal hunger and thirst

Answer 3

Tantalus

Question 4

49 sisters carry water in leaky buckets

Answer 4

Danaids

Question 5

Chairs of forgetfulness

Answer 5

Heracles and Peirithous

Question 6

King of Sparta, husband of Helen

Answer 6

Menelaus

Question 7

King of Mycenae/king of the Greeks; Husband of Clytemnestra

Answer 7

Agamemnon

Question 8

Best fighter of Greeks; son of Pelias and Thetis

Answer 8

Achilles

Question 9

2nd greatest fighter of the Greeks, vied with Odysseus for Achilles’ armor (lost)

Answer 9

Ajax the Greater

Question 9

Thought of the wooden horse; King of Ithaca, took 10 years to return home from Trojan War

Answer 9

Odysseus

Question 10

King of Troy; name means ransomed one

Answer 10

Priam

Question 11

Priam’s original name

Answer 11

Podarces

Question 12

Wife of Priam; mother of Hector, Priam, Cassandra, Helenus and others

Answer 12

Hecuba

Question 13

Best fighter of Trojans, killed by Achilles

Answer 13

Hector

Question 14

Son of Priam, steals Helen, killed Achilles with an arrow (with help of Apollo)

Answer 14

Paris

Question 15

Changes men to animals

Answer 15

Circe (Aeaea)

Question 16

Detains Odysseus for 7 years

Answer 16

Calypso (Ogygia)

Question 17

Loyal Swineherd

Answer 17

Eumaeus

Question 18

Loyal Cowherd

Answer 18

Philoetius

Question 19

Unfaithful Goatherd

Answer 19

Melanthius

Question 20

King and Queen of Scheria who host Odysseus

Answer 20

Alcinous and Arete

Question 21

Dog who dies upon finally seeing his master return

Answer 21

Argus

Question 22

Nurse who recognizes Odysseus by the scar on his leg

Answer 22

Eurycleia

Question 23

Most Incolent

Answer 23

Antinous

Question 24

Most Favored

Answer 24

Eurymachus

Question 25

Faithful wife of Odysseus, weaves and unweaves a shroud daily to delay

Answer 25

Penelope

Question 26

Son of Odysseus who goes looking for his father

Answer 26

Telemachus

Question 27

What ithacan swineherd remained faithful to Odysseus?

Answer 27

Eumaeus

Question 28

What son of Ctesius served as Odysseus' loyal swineherd?

Answer 28

Eumaeus

Question 29

What island did Odysseus call home for 7 years while under the charms of Calypso?

Answer 29

Ogygia

Question 30

Agenor, Leodes, Amphimedon, Eurymachus, and Antinous were all suitors of what Ithacan queen?

Answer 30

Penelope

Question 31

Who slaughtered several sheep which he thought were the Greek chieftains and killed himself in shame after losing the contest for Achilles' armor?

Answer 31

Ajax the Greater

Question 32

Who acquired a bag full of winds, which he was advised not to open until he saw the Ithaca?

Answer 32

Odysseus

Question 33

Who provoked the jealous rage of three goddesses when she threw an apple labeled for the most beautiful?

Answer 33

Eris

Question 34

"Who prayed to his father that ""nobody"" be punished for blinding his only eye with a wooden stake?"

Answer 34

Polyphemus

Question 34

Who was shocked when Calypso urged him to build a raft, after remaining captive to her spells for seven years?

Answer 34

Odysseus

Question 35

Who was tied to the mast of his ship as he sailed past the Sirens so that he could hear their song?

Answer 35

Odysseus

Question 36

Who unwove by night the shroud which she spun during the day in order to delay her marriage to a suitor?

Answer 36

Penelope

Question 37

What king was ransomed as a child from Heracles by his sister, fathered numerous children, and died at the hands of a Greek warrior as Troy was falling?

Answer 37

Podarces

Question 38

Who encountered the Cicones, the Lotophagi, the Phaeaecians and several others during his voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War?

Answer 38

Odysseus

Question 38

What concept, brought to life by Epeius, was originally envisioned by Odysseus and gave the Greeks a way to infiltrate the city of Troy?

Answer 38

Trojan Horse

Question 39

Which of the sinners of Tartarus, because he was the first mortal to murder a relative, spends his time getting dizzy on a wheel of fire?

Answer 39

Ixion

Question 40

What son of Laius and Jocasta inadvertently killed his father at a crossroads and married his mother?

Answer 40

Oedipus

Question 41

Which of the sinners of Tartarus, because he fed the flesh of his own son to the gods, spends his time trying to get food and water for himself?

Answer 41

Tantalus

Question 42

Because of his crimes such as handcuffing Hades, what mortal was forever forced to roll a boulder up a hill in the underworld?

Answer 42

Sisyphus

Question 43

What giant is eternally punished in the Underworld by having his body streched to cover nine acres while two vultures ate his heart?

Answer 43

Tityus

Question 44

Who in the Underworld was condemned to carry water in jars which leaked like sieves?

Answer 44

Danaids