Greek Olympians
The Egyptian Pantheon
Roman Names
Myths and Beliefs
Mythology Medley
100
She is the Greek goddess of beauty.
Who is Aphrodite?
100
She was the Egyptian goddess of the sky, married to Geb, god of the Earth.
Who is Nut?
100
The Roman name of Zeus.
What is Jupiter?
100
The names of the last five days of the year. In Egyptian mythology, these five days were the five birthdays of the children of Nut and Geb.
What are the Demon Days?
100
He was the Egyptian sun god.
Who is Ra?
200
Hades controls is the god of the Underworld and this.
What is wealth?
200
He was the god of deserts, and was later depicted as god of chaos.
Who is Set, or Seth?
200
The Roman names of Hermes and Aphrodite.
What are Mercury and Venus?
200
The fruit that Hades forced Demeter to eat in order to capture her, also the fruit of which Hades was patron god.
What is the pomegranate.
200
The first generation of cyclopes were harmless ______. The second generation were maneaters, one of which was named _______.
What are blacksmiths, and who is Polyphemus?
300
These three people were Hades' Underworld entourage, of which one was a ferryman, another was a three-headed guardian, and the last was his wife.
Who are Chiron, Cerberus, and Persephone?
300
She is wife of Osiris, god of the Underworld.
Who is Isis?
300
The only planet in the solar system not named after a Roman deity.
What is Earth?
300
The two Titans that birthed all of the others. Bonus: Name the rebel Titan that killed his father, and name his wife.
Who are Gaia and Uranus? Bonus: Who are Cronus and Rhea?
300
They were the Greek and Roman spirits of the forest. Hint: NOT nymphs!
What are dryads?
400
He is the god of travel, and was the inspiration for the caduceus, the staff symbol of modern medicine (not the pharmacist symbol).
Who is Hermes?
400
He is the possible King of the Gods, whom the pharaoh Tutankhamun is named for.
Who is Amun?
400
The Roman named of Cronus, the rebel Titan who killed his father and was later killed by his own son.
What is Kronos?
400
Set was the god of ____. Osiris was teh god of _____. Anubis was the god of ______. Hint: These are all Egyptian gods.
Set was god of deserts and/or chaos. Osiris was god of the Duat (Underworld). Anubis was god of embalming, and he escorted souls to the Duat (Underworld).
400
They were the parents of terrible Greek monsters such as the Hydra or the Chimera.
Who are Typhon and Echidna?
500
She was the first of Zeus' wives and his sister.
Who is Hera?
500
It is the Egyptian-Aramian god. It was worshipped during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten, during which time Akhenaten changed the Egyptian religion to make it monotheistic (worship of one god). The choice to worship this one god was unpopular.
What is the Aten?
500
The Greek and Roman names of one of the greatest Greek-Roman heroes, demigod son of Zeus.
Who is Heracles/Hercules? (Give both names.)
500
What was the name of the Titan who gave Fire to humans, and what was his punishment?
Who is Prometheus, and he was punished by having an eagle rip out his liver every morning, and it would regrow every night to be ripped out again the next day.
500
______ was the Egyptian crocodile god. ______ was the Greek satyr god. _____ was the Roman Earth mother Titan (Hint: Gaia was her Greek name).
Who is Sobhek; who is Pan; who is Ge?