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Greek Gods
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This blind Greek poet is traditionally credited with composing The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
100
This goddess of wisdom often helps Odysseus.
Who is Athena?
100
This 2000 film by the Coen brothers loosely riffs on Homer's Odyssey in Depression-era Mississippi.
What is O Brother, Where Art Thou?
100
This ancient Greek vessel often shows scenes from myth and daily life.
What is a vase?
100
This Greek letter is often used to symbolize the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
200
This hero of The Odyssey spends years trying to return home to Ithaca.
Who is Odysseus?
200
This king of the gods ruled from Mount Olympus.
Who is Zeus?
200
This 1954 film stars Kirk Douglas as the title hero returning from war and temptation.
What is Ulysses?
200
This Greek sculptor is associated with the Discobolus, the discus thrower.
Who is Myron?
200
This instrument, associated with ancient Greece, is central to myth and poetry.
What is the lyre?
300
Odysseus spends most of the epic trying to get back to this island kingdom.
What is Ithaca?
300
This messenger god wore winged sandals.
Who is Hermes?
300
This 1963 sword-and-sandal film features Jason and the crew of the Argo seeking a golden prize.
What is Jason and the Argonauts?
300
This temple on the Acropolis is one of the best-known symbols of ancient Greek architecture.
What is the Parthenon?
300
This mythical musician played so beautifully that trees and rocks were said to follow him.
Who is Orpheus?
400
This sea god is the main divine obstacle to Odysseus' journey.
Who is Poseidon?
400
This underworld god was the brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
Who is Hades?
400
This 2017 animated film features a boy who enters the Land of the Dead and encounters a guide named Héctor.
What is Coco?
400
This artistic style features black figures painted on a red background, common in ancient Greek pottery.
What is black-figure pottery?
400
This goddess of music, dance, and poetry is one of the nine Muses.
Who is Terpsichore?
500
This structure used by Homer begins in the middle of the story and then fills in earlier events.
What is in medias res?
500
This goddess of the hunt was often identified with the moon in later mythology.
Who is Artemis?
500
This 2004 film about the fall of Troy starred Brad Pitt as Achilles.
What is Troy?
500
This modern artist created a long series of paintings inspired by Greek mythology, including Minotaur imagery.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
500
This Broadway musical retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with jazz and folk influences.
What is Hadestown?
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