Iliad
Zeus turned himself into a swan in order to get with this Spartan Queen, mother of Helen and Clytemnestra.
Who is Leda?
Telemachus leaves Ithaca because these ungrateful guests plan to take his life in order to clear the path to the throne.
Who are the suitors? (Or, Who are Antinous, Eurymachus)
Zeus's Roman Name
What is Jupiter/Iupiter/Jove
According to Hesiod's cosmogony, this primordial void was the very first entity to exist, followed immediately by Gaia, Tartaros, and Eros
What is Chaos?
At the beginning of the play, Dionysus returns to this, his birthplace, disguised as a mortal stranger to establish his cult and clear his mother Semele's name
The wedding of Peleus and Thetis is crashed and subsequently ruined when this goddess gives a golden apple "to the most beautiful."
Who is Eris?
What is their marriage bed?
Ares's Roman name
What is Mars?
To end his tyrannical suppression of their children, Gaia provides her son Cronus with a flint version of this agricultural tool, while he uses to castrate his father Ouranos
What is a sickle?
This young, rigid king of Thebes fiercely opposes the new religious movement, viewing the ecstatic worhsip of the god as a threat to civic law, order, and morality
Who is Pentheus?
This Trojan prince is the one who purportedly ends up killing Achilles with an arrow to the heel, with the assistance of Apollo.
Who is Paris?
Played both a song about the affair between Ares and Aphrodite, as well as the Song of Troy, which made Odysseus burst into tears and reveal his identity.
Who is Demodocus the bard?
Aphrodite's Roman name
What is Venus?
To avoid being overthrown by his offspring, Cronus swallows his children as they are born, until Rhea tricks him into swallowing this object wrapped in swaddling clothes instead of Zeus
What is Omphalos (stone)
Dionysus uses his divine psychological power to manipulate the king, convincing him to dress up as one of these female worshippers so he can secretly spy on them in the mountains
What is Maenad/Bacchant?
Husband to Andromache, and Trojan war hero who eventually is killed by Achilles; the epic ends with his funeral.
Who is Hector?
The daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of Phaeacia, who was doing laundry when Odysseus asked her for help.
Who is Nausicaa?
Hephaestus's Roman name
What is Vulcan?
Zeus secures victory for the Olympians in the ten-year Titanomachy by descending into Tartaros and freeing these three monstrous, multi-limbed siblings
Who are the Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handers)?
Driven into a god-induced frenzy on Mount Cithaeron, this mother of the king leads the Maenads in tearing her own son limb from limb, believing he is a mountain lion
Who is Agave?
This hero tried to "dip out" of fighting in the Trojan War by acting like he was mad by plowing fields of stone.
Who is Odysseus?
The challenge that Penelope gave to the suitors and the "mysterious stranger" that eventually revealed Odysseus' identity and led to the slaughter of the suitors.
What is the stringing of the bow?
Demeter's Roman name
What is Ceres?
After defeating the final threat of Typhoeus, Zeus cements his ultimate rule by swallowing his first wife to prevent her from giving birth to a son destined to overthrow him
Who is Metis?
This grandfather of Pentheus and former king of Thebes is the first to shake off the divine madness at the end of the play, gently forcing his daughter to look at the sky and realize the head she is holding belongs to her son
Who is Cadmus?