Cupid & Psyche
Cupid's mother
Who is Aphrodite?
The talent for which Orpheus is best known.
What is playing music?
Famous ferryman who takes spirits across the river Styx.
Who is Charon?
Argus's eyes are forever immortalized in this majestic bird, a symbol of Hera.
What is a peacock?
Leda is the mother of these famous twins.
Who are Artemis and Apollo?
Zeus turns himself into this animal to seduce Europa?
What is a white bull?
One of the reasons for the development of monster myths is to explain this type of phenomenon.
What is natural?
Medusa is this type of monster.
What is a gorgon?
The reason Cupid falls in love with Psyche.
What is he shoots himself in the foot with his own arrow?
Eurydice was this type of mythological creature.
What is a wood nymph?
The punishment of the Danaids.
What is endlessly carrying jars of water filled with holes?
To hide Io from Hera, Zeus turned her into this creature.
What is a cow?
Mother of Perseus, daughter of King Acrisius.
Who is Danae?
To seduce Leda, Zeus disguised himself as this bird.
Another possible reason for monster myths might not be pure imagination, but perhaps to explain this.
What is a child born with a birth defect?
Add the number of hands of the hecatonchires with the number of eyes of a cyclops.
What is 101?
Psyche's sisters convince her to do this.
What is look upon her husband with candlelight?
Persephone's Roman name.
What is Proserpina?
Don't mess with Juno like King Ixion did or you'll be whipped with these.
What are snakes?
Aphrodite and this goddess fought over the love of the beautiful Adonis.
Who is Persephone?
True or False? Both Leda & Alcmene are famous for giving birth to mythic twins of whom the father of one is mortal and the other is Zeus.
What is true?
Zeus impregnates Danae in this form.
What is a golden shower?
The creation of monsters also added to the excitement of these types of myths.
What are hero myths?
Charybdis, the whirlpool, is almost always paired with this monster.
What is Scylla?
The reason Aphrodite is jealous of Psyche.
What is humans have stopped making sacrifices to Aphrodite's beauty?
The group of drunken women that killed Orpheus.
Who are the Bacchantes?
This man stole, raped, and murdered. His punishment was to roll a heavy stone uphill over and over again.
Who is Sisyphus?
The minotaur was housed in this puzzle-like structure.
What is a labyrinth?
Callisto, the mother of Arcas, is immortalized as this constellation.
What is Big Bear or Ursa Major?
What is her husband?
Monsters were also created as a way to do this to wicked people.
What is punish?
These mythological sisters shared one eye and one tooth.
Who are the Graiae Women?
What "psyche" means in translation.
What is "soul?"
God that gave Orpheus & Eurydice their unlucky omen.
Who is Hymen?
Served a banquet of his son's flesh to the gods.
Who is Tantalus?
A term meaning the combining of two beliefs or religions, it may help explain the philandering of Zeus.
What is syncretism?
Zeus swallowed this woman to hide her from Hera, later Athena was born from his head.
Who is Metis?
Zeus tricked Hera into marriage by disguising himself as this bird.
What is a cuckoo bird?
Monsters also symbolized these aspects of the underworld (2 things).
What are darkness and evil?
Like centaurs, these mythological creatures are part man and part horse, but they walk on two legs, not four.
What are the Sileni?