Love
The Roman Goddess of love and childbirth.
Who is Juno?
To finally breach the gates of Troy, the Greeks hid their best warriors inside this hollow wooden sculpture.
What is the Trojan Horse?
The Norse God of peace and prosperity.
Who is Freyr?
The Greeks used “Black figure” and “Red figure” techniques with clay to decorate these arts.
What are ceramics?
According to Roman legend, these twin brothers were the sons of the war god Mars and the priestess Rhea Silvia.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
Aphrodite’s son and Greek god of love, famous for his arrows.
Who is Cupid?
The ten year war between Olympian gods and their predecessors.
What is the Titanomachy?
This Latin phrase means “Roman peace” and refers to 200 years of stability.
What is Pax Romana?
This famous Roman wall painting found in a Pompeii villa depicts the rites of this god of wine and ritual madness.
What is Dionysus?
Daughter of Saturn, the goddess of marriage and queen of the Roman gods.
Who is Juno?
The mortal hunger Roman goddess Venus fall in love with.
Who is Adonis?
This Greek monster had poisonous breath and multiple heads, so every time one of its heads was cut of, one grew in its place.
What is a Hydra?
The “presiding one” in Norse mythology.
Who is Forsetti?
This Renaissance sculpture captures the moment this sun god reaches for the nymph Daphne just as she transforms.
Who is Apollo?
The king of the Roman gods, Jupiter, and the ruler of the underworld, Pluto, have a third brother who is the lord of the sea.
Who is Neptune?
Nemesis cursed him to fall so deeply in love with his own reflection that he wasted away.
Who is Narcissus?
The Shinto god of war, and the protector of the Japanese people.
Who is Hachiman?
This Titans, whose name means “justice”, often served as a counselor to Zeus and was mother of the seasons.
Who is Themis?
Built in Rome to honor all the gods, this architectural artwork features a massive concrete dome and an oculus that lets in sunlight.
What is the Pantheon?
The Roman gods of war and love, Mars and Venus, were parents to this winged god.
Who is Cupid?
This Greek couple asked the gods to let them die together, so Zeus and Hera granted their wish and turned them into trees.
Who are Baucis and Philemon?
Fought between the Yellow Emperor and the rebel Chiyou, said to be the greatest war in Chinese mythology.
What is the Battle of Zhuolu?
Along with the sacred sword and the jeweled necklace, this is the third of the Imperial Regalia of Japan.
What is the sacred mirror?
The House of the Vettii in this ancient city was famous for its vivid, almost preserved mythological frescoes.
What is Pompeii?
This Titan mother of the original Olympian gods hid her youngest child, Zeus, in a cave to prevent him from being swallowed.
Who is Rhea?