Greek Families
Who is Danaë's father?
King Acrisius
Name all 12 original Titans and what they are the titan of.
Oceanus: ocean, Coeus: intellect and wisdom, Crius: Constellations and the cosmos, Hyperion: light, Iapetus: morality and craft, Cronus: time, Rhea: fertility and motherhood, Tethys: fresh water and springs, Theia: sight and shinning light, Themis: divine law, Mnemosyne: memory, and Phoebe: prophecy
Who stabbed Polyphemus in the eye?
Odysseus. (100 extra points if you said Nobody)
Where is the word "music" come from?
The muses
The hypothetical cataclysmic collision between the early proto-Earth and a Mars-sized planetary body is named...
Theia Impact
Who is the father of Pelops?
Tantalus
Name all 9 muses and their specialty
Calliope: epic poetry, Clio: history, Erato: lyric poetry, Euterpe: song, Terpsichore: dance, Melpomene: tragedy, Polyhymnia: hymn and mime, Thalia: comedy and light verse, and Urania: astronomy, astrology, and math
What did Zeus turn Metis into and why?
A fly (or a drop of water) to prevent the same thing that happened to his grandfather and father from happening to him.
Where does the term "Nobel Laureate" come from?
The fact that the Laurel tree is sacred to Apollo and the entire situation with Daphne.
The opening line to John Keats poem titled "Endymion" is as follows:
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever"
Who is the paternal and maternal grandfather of Pheaton?
Hyperion (paternal) and Occeanus (maternal)
Name all the Graces and their specialty.
Euphrosyne: mirth, Aglaia: elegance or splendor, and Thalia: abundance and festivity
What boar did Atalanta strike first and relating to that, what is the NAME of the person who killed Meleager and their relationship to him?
The Calydonian Boar and Althaea killed her own son.
How does Greek mythology explain the "eyes" of a peacock? And who murdered him?
Argus Panoptes was a servant of Hera that has 100 eyes. When Hermes killed him, Hera honored him by putting his eyes on the tails of peacocks.
Who wrote the poem "Ode to Psyche?"
John Keats
In older traditions, Niobe has 12 children, In newer traditions Niobe has 14. Name them all
On further research, it is more chaotic than I realized with the children going up to 40+. This is supposed to be hard but not that hard.
So instead tell me who Hyacinthus is and who killed him.
He was an extremely beloved companion of Apollo and extremely handsome. Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, also loved Hyacinthus, but Hyacinthus rejected him in favor of Apollo and Zephyrus blew a discus to his head which killed him and through his blood, spawned the hyacinth flower
What is the Roman name for Eos and what is she the goddess of, And what are the Roman names for the following gods/goddesses: Athena, Hephaestus, Demeter, and Dionysus?
Aurora is the goddess of dawn and the Roman names for the gods/goddesses are: Minerva, Vulcan, Ceres, and Bacchus / Liber
What was the profession of Laocoön AND how did he die AND what famous saying comes from this story?
He was a Trojan Priest that warned against brining in the Trojan hoarse. Eventually, two giant serpents come crawling and eventually kill him. The famous saying is, "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."
Who is given the epithet Cytherean/Cythera and why?
Aphrodite is given the epithet Cytherean or Cythera because in some traditions, that is the birthplace of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty.
Who wrote the masque "Camus" AND what is Camus the god of?
John Milton wrote Camus and he is the god of revelry.
Who was Pelops wife, what are the names of their two famous children who had a rivalry, the other sibling they kill, why the sun turned away, the two children of Atreus, and the famous wife of one of the siblings.
Hippodamia (wife), Atreus and Thyestes (children), Chrysippus (R.I.P.), the sun turned away because Atreus fed Thyestes his own children, Agamemnon and Menelaus (sons of Atreus), and Helen (wife of menelaus).
Name all the Graeae's, Moirai, and all the rivers in the underworld and what they do/represent.
Graeae's: Deino, Enyo, and Pomphredo.
Moirai (fates): Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos
As for the rivers:
Styx: river of hatred and oaths, Lethe: river of forgetfulness, Acheron: river of woe and the river in which Charon transports new souls, Phlegethon: rover of fire and lava that either leads to tartarus or is in tartarus, and Cocytus: the river of lamentation where souls who could not pay Charon go.
Who is Lamia? AND what is funny about Zeus turning Atalanta and Hippomenes into lions?
Zeus and Lamia fell in love and Hera, being the husband of Zeus, hated their relationship. Accounts very as to what happened being that Hera killed Lamia's children, causes Lamia to kill them, etc. The end goal is that Lamia's children are dead and as a result of this, Lamia eats children. Parents would use Lamia as a way to scare their children to not wander off. As for the second question, Greeks beleived that Lions could not mate with each other so Zeus thought he was punishing them by turning them into lions lol.
Who are the individuals that became Ursa Major and Ursa Minor?
Callisto (Ursa Major) and Arcas (Ursa Minor)
Who painted the paintings, "Saturn Devouring His Son," "The Fall of Phaeton," and "The Lament For Icarus?" First and last name required or no points.
Fransisco Goya, Peter Paul Rubens, and Herbert James Draper