Coins for your Thoughts?
Ready or Knot
Labors of Heracles
Metamorphoses
Heraclean Vocab
100

What mythological beast could be found on the coin of Corinth?

Pegasus

100

What was the Latin word for knots?

Nodus, Nodi

100

How did Hercules kill the Nemean Lion, despite its impenetrable skin?

He choked the Lion to death.

100
Who rejected Echo because he was too obsessed with himself?

Narcissus

100

Which task of Hercules is relates best to the latin word of "leo".

The Nemean Lion.

200

From these places: Greece, Arabia, Bactria, and China, where has the Athenian Owl not been found?

China

200

Whose clothing would you usually find the Nodus Herculaneum on?

The Bride
200

Name any of the labors Heracles did that "didn't count".

Learnaean Hydra or Augean Stables

200

What type of tree did Daphne turn into?

A laurel tree

200
From the words "ignis", "hydra", "venenum", and "caput", what was the object used by Heracles to make sure that the heads didn't grow back?
ignis.
300

What could be found on a coin from Knossos, a city from Crete?

The Labyrinth

300

As the name may suggest, what types of material would a timber hitch secure?

Wood, Logs, Timber

300

What was the name of the king who assigned Heracle's labors?

King Eurystheus
300

Why did Athena turn Medusa into a gorgon?

Medusa slept with Poseidon in her[Athena's] temple.

300

From the words "flumen", "bovis", "sagitta",  and "stabulum", what did not relate to Heracle's task of the Augean Stables?

Sagitta

400

What mythological man did Alexander the Great claim he was a descendant of, and could be found on his coins?

Heracles

400

With a shape in its name, which knot in ancient Rome was used to tie packages, bandages, clothing, and sails?

Square knots

400

Sharing a name with a famous Greek Hero from the Trojan War, who owned the man-eating horses and was eventually killed by Hercules and fed to those very horses?

Diomedes

400

How many children did Niobe have, causing her to brag about how she's better than Leto?

14.
400

Who is the giant "canis" who guarded the "ianuae" of the "Orcus?"

Cerberus

500

Along with the owl, what else could've been found on the back of a coin from Athens?

An olive branch, letters AΘE

500

What is the simplest and most universal knot, used to temporarily secure something and start more complicated knots?

The overhand knot.

500

What was the name of Heracle's nephew who helped him slay the Lernaean Hydra?

Iolaus

500

Who was the god of the West Wind, and killed Hyacinthus after redirecting a discus?

Zephyrus

500

Who was the "regina" whom Heracles took the "balteus" from?

Hippolyta

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