Creation
Gods, Their Children, and Their Lovers
Goddesses
Heroes
Roman
100
One of the four primordial beings and personification of the Earth.
Who was Gaea?
100
King of the gods whose important symbols are a thunderbolt and an eagle.
Who was Zeus?
100
Most important goddess in Greece. Birthed through the head of Zeus.
Who was Athena?
100
Joseph Cambell's Analysis states that, to be a hero, you must have a wonderful birth, have a childhood test, divine help, divine opposition, trial/quest/labors/, a visit to the ________, and a reward.
What is the Underworld?
100
Mother of the Romans
Who was Venus?
200
King of the world who swallowed his five children
Who was Cronus?
200
Princess who was seduced by Zeus in the form of a swan.
Who was Leda?
200
Extremely talented weaver who bragged she was better than Athena. She was punished and turned into a spider who ha to weave forever.
Who was Arachne?
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200
The hero who strangled snakes that were sent by Hera as a child.
Who was Heracles?
200
Goddess who is very unimportant in Greek Mythology but crucial to Roman Mythology
Who was Vesta?
300
Condemned by Zeus to live at the edge of the world and hold up the heavens.
Who was Atlas?
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300
Sent by Zeus to kill Argus.
Who was Hermes?
300
Queen of Thebes who bragged her children were more beautiful than Apollo. She was later killed by Artemis and Apollo and she was turned into stone.
Who was Niobe?
300
Heracles was the only hero to gain _______ and become an Olympian God.
What is immortality?
300
Twin brothers born of Mars who fought each other to become king of Rome.
Who were Romulus and Remus?
400
Lover of Eos who gained immortality but not eternal youth and eventually shriveled up into a cricket.
Who was Tithonus?
400
Satyr who provoked Apollo to a musical contest claiming he would be better.
Who was Marsyas?
400
Follower of Artemis who was transformed into a bear and later set among the stars as Ursa Major.
Who was Callisto?
400
A centaur who was a special teacher of Jason and Achilles
Who was Chiron?
400
God with two faces (one looks into the future, and one looks in the past)
Who was Janus?
500
Son of Helius who lost control of the his father's "chariot of the sky" and almost set the world ablaze.
Who was Phaeton?
500
Refused Pan's advances so he took her ability to speak properly and now she can only repeat.
Who was Echo?
500
Place of Artemis's sanctuary where she protected little girls or "little bears"
What is Brauron?
500
The mother and wife of the hero Oedipus.
Who was Jocasta?
500
Queen of Carthage that falls in love with Aeneas
Who was Dido?
