Children of Zeus
Tragic Love
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Gods and Mortals
Labors of Herakles
100
Born of her father's head, this child of Zeus sprung out fully armored and is associated with owls.
Who is Athena?
100
This woman tragically murders her own children to get revenge on her wandering husband.
Who is Medea?
100
The muses, nine daughters of Zeus that inspire poets, reside on this Mountain.
What is Mount Helikon?
100
This man is loved and aided by Zeus during the course of the Trojan war, and is eventually killed by the great Achilles.
Who is Hector?
100
This fruit, a wedding present from Hera to Zeus, was stolen from the garden guarded by the Hesperides.
What are apples?
200
This child of Zeus strangled the snakes set in his crib by a jealous Hera to kill him.
Who is Herakles?
200
When Aphrodite forces his step-mother to fall in love with him, this unfortunate son of Theseus was murdered by his father.
Who is Hippolytus?
200
This large structure has a war depicted on each of its four sides, and contains a large statue of Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
200
When this woman dares to compete, and excel, in a contest of weaving with a disguised Athena, she is turned into a spider.
Who is Arachne?
200
Herakles traveled to the underworld to kidnap this creature, and was told by Pluto that he could take it if he overpowered the beast with his own brute force.
Who is Cerberus?
300
This child of Zeus was produced when his mother, a young nymph, was raped by Zeus. Zeus turned her into a cow to hide his indiscretion and gave the poor creature to his wife Hera.
Who is Epaphus?
300
This nymph was transformed into marshy reeds as she escaped the advances of a love-struck Pan. He turned the reeds into an instrument.
Who is Syrinx?
300
From this city, Eurystheus gave Herakles the orders for his twelve labors.
What is Mycenae?
300
This man was the former fiancé of Andromeda, and was turned to stone by the head of Medusa when he dared to threaten Perseus's relationship with Andromeda.
Who is Phineus?
300
Herakles was called on to to steal the belt of this queen of the Amazons as his ninth labor.
Who is Hippolyte?
400
This child of Zeus saved Cepheus and Cassiopeia's daughter from the sea monster with the help of Medusa's head.
Who is Perseus?
400
This man performs katabasis to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld. Unfortunately, he makes the mistake of looking back at her as they ascend, and she is brought back to Hades forever.
Who is Orpheus?
400
On this island in the Aegean Sea, Perseus and his mother washed ashore and were taken in by a kind fisherman, Dictys.
What is Seriphos?
400
This mortal became the unwitting paramour of Aphrodite and became father to their son Aeneas.
Who is Anchises?
400
This labor was especially difficult because Herakles could not injure or kill this pet of Diana.
What is the Hind of Ceryneia?
500
This child of Zeus was born on the island of Delos as his mother clung to palms.
Who is Apollo?
500
This unfortunate girl falls in love with her own father. Her nurse facilitates the consummation of her love, and she bore a son, Adonis.
Who is Myrrah?
500
This mountain is the home of the trickster Hermes and his mother, a mountain nymph.
What is Mount Cyllene?
500
This beautiful mortal boy is loved by Apollo, and tragically dies when Apollo accidentally strikes him with a discus.
Who is Hyacinthus?
500
Due to the participation of Herakles' nephew Iolaus, this labor was one of two not counted towards the ten labors required by Eurystheus.
What is the Learnean Hydra?