The Odyssey
THIS EVENT IS THE PRELUDE TO THE TROJAN WAR, INVOLVING A SHEPARD AND THREE GODDESSES
WHAT IS THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS?
THIS ANIMAL BECOMES THE FIRST LYRE THANKS TO HERMES
WHAT IS A TORTOISE/TURTLE?
AFTER SLAYING THE MINOTAUR, THIS HERO ABANDONS THE PRINCESS ARIADNE ON A DESERTED ISLAND ON HIS WAY BACK TO ATHENS.
WHO IS THESEUS?
THE FEMALE WORSHIPPERS OF DIONYSUS
WHO ARE THE BACCHAE/MAENADS?
THE PLAY FROM WHICH THIS QUOTE COMES: "THEY DECKED THEMSELVES WITH CROWNS OF IVY, OAK, AND BRYONY. ONE WOMAN STRUCK HER THYRSUS ON A ROCK AND A SPRING OF WATER SHOT OUT, BUBBLING.
WHAT IS EURIPIDES' BACCHAE?
ODYSSEUS' HOME, WHERE HIS SON TELEMACHUS BEGINS HIS HEROIC INITIATION/HERO'S JOURNEY
WHAT IS ITHACA?
THE ONLY DEITY TO WITNESS PERSEPHONE'S ABDUCTION
WHO IS HELIOS?
HE DEFEATS THE LERNAEAN HYDRA, STEALS THE APPLES OF THE HESPERIDIES, AND RETRIEVES CERBERUS FROM THE UNDERWORLD.
WHO IS HERCULES?
WHO IS PANDORA?
THE WORK THAT THIS QUOTE COMES FROM: "IT WAS HE WHO CROSSED THE OCEAN, THE VAST SEAS, TO THE RISING SUN, WHO EXPLORED THE WORLD'S REGIONS, TWO-THIRDS OF HIM IS GOD, ONE-THIRD OF HIM IS HUMAN."
WHAT IS THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH?
IN BOOK 11, ODYSSEUS GOES TO THIS PLACE TO CONSULT WITH PAST FRIENDS AND FAMILY, GAINING THE KNOWLEDGE HE NEEDS TO COMPLETE HIS JOURNEY HOME
WHAT IS THE UNDERWORLD?
"DELOS, WOULD YOU WANT TO BE THE ABODE OF MY SON, PHEOBUS APOLLO, AND TO HOUSE HIM IN A LAVISH TEMPLE?"
WHO IS LETO?
HE LEADS A BAND OF MYTHOLOGICAL SUPERSTARS ON A QUEST ABOARD THE ARGO IN ORDER TO RETRIEVE THE GOLDEN FLEECE
WHO IS JASON?
WHAT DID ATHENA OFFER ATHENS TO BEAT POSEIDON IN THE CONTEST TO BECOME THE CITY'S PATRON DEITY?
OLIVE TREES
THE WORK FROM WHICH THIS QUTE COMES: "HERA BORE TYPHON, UNLIKE A GOD OR HUMAN, CLEVER, AWFUL, AND CRUEL, A BANE FOR MORTAL FOLK. AT ONCE, COW-EYED QUEEN HERA BROUGHT EVIL TO EVIL AND THE SHE-DRAGON WELCOMED HIM"
WHAT IS THE HOMERIC HYMN TO APOLLO?
ODYSSEUS AND HIS MEN MUST CAREFULLY NAVIGATE BETWEEN THESE TWO MARITIME HAZARDS, BOTH OF WHICH POSE GREAT RISKS TO HIS MEN AND HIS SHIP
WHAT ARE SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS?
IN HER GRIEF, DEMETER FLEES TO THIS CITY
WHAT IS ELEUSIS?
THIS IS THE GREEK TERM FOR A HERO'S DECENT TO THE UNDERWORLD AS PART OF THEIR HERO'S JOURNEY
WHAT IS A KATABASIS?
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ROCK THAT KRONOS SWALLOWS IN PLACE OF ZEUS AND ENDS UP IN DELPHI?
HINT: THE 'CENTER' OF THE GREEK WORLD
WHAT IS THE OMPHALOS?
THE WORK FROM WHICH THIS QUOTE COMES: "THE ARMS OF TYPHOEUS WERE MADE FOR DEEDS OF MIGHT, HIS LEGS NEVER WEARIED, AND FROM HIS SHOULDERS THERE LEAPT UP 100 SNAKE HEADS, SUCH AS FIERCE DRAGONS HAVE..."
WHAT IS HESIOD'S THEOGONY?
ON THE ISLAND OF THRINACIA, ODYSSEUS' MEN COMMIT THIS CRIME AGAINST THE GODS, MAKING THE REST OF THE JOURNEY HOME EVEN MORE DIFFICULT
WHAT IS EATING THE CATTLE OF THE SUN?
WHO DOES APHRODITE TELL THIS LIE TO?
WHO IS ANCHISES?
HERCULES' 9TH LABOR REQUIRES HIM TO STEAL THE BELT/GIRDLE OF THIS AMAZONIAN QUEEN
HIPPOLYTA
ACCORDING TO THE THEOGONY, WHO IS THE OLDEST OF THE OLYMPIAN DEITIES?
APHRODITE
THE WORK FROM WHICH THIS QUOTE COMES: "THE YOUNG MEN'S EYES TURNED TO BOLD HERACLES... BUT HE SAID, 'LET NO MAN OFFER THIS HONOR TO ME... LET THE PERSON WHO MUSTERED THIS HOST HAVE ITS LEADERSHIP.'"
WHAT IS APOLLONIUS' ARGONAUTICA?