A woman killed by Zeus in circumstances similar to an episode of the myth of Eros and Psyche.
Who is Semele?
100
Maya
What was the name of Hermes' mother?
100
MINOS RHADAMANTHUS, and AEACUS
Who are the judges in the Underworld?
100
This divinity authorized Hades to kidnap Persephone.
What was Zeus' role in Persephone's kidnapping?
100
Served his own son for dinner
What was Tantalus' sin?
200
The lion wrestler, who became the mother of Aristaeus, the keeper of bees and had an important city in Africa named after her.
Who was Cyrene?
200
A head of Hermes on a pillar; with genitals.
What was a herm?
200
Demeter tried to make him immortal, but was interrupted by his mother.
What was the story of Demophoon?
200
This was the DIRECT reason why Demeter's caused the earth to produce no crops.
Deianira interrupting of Demeter's efforts to make Demophoon immortal through fire.
200
Pelops' beloved
Who was Hippodamia?
300
Mother of Asclepius; cheated on Apollo
Who was Coronis?
300
Hermes made a lyre of its shell.
What role does a tortoise play in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes?
300
He is gloomiest boatman and it the saddest river in Greek myth.
How are Charon and Styx connected?
300
The sequence of Demeter's experiences in the Homeric Hymn
Kidnapping, search, grief, nursing Demophoon in Eleusis, anger resulting in earth's infertility; Zeus' efforts to reconcile with her; Persephone's return
300
He was the son of Thyestes and Thyestes' daughter Pelopia.
What was Aegisthus' parentage?
400
The priestess of Cumae, who rejected Apollo's advances and was granted eternal life without youth
Who was Sybil?
400
Five most important characteristics of Hermes
God of shepherds
Patron of thieves and business people
Master of persuasion
Psychopompus
Messenger of the gods
Archetypal trickster
400
Ritual elements of the procession form Athens to Eleusis
Ritual cleansing
Procession with Torches
Fasting and vigil
Hymns and obscene jests
Drinking KYKEON
The revelation of the "sacred objects"
400
Orcus
What is a Roman name for Hades?
400
To take revenge for his brother's theft of the golden fleece.
Why did Arteus kill and cook Thyestes' sons and serve them in a dish to their father?
500
"Know Thyself"
What is the inscription at the temple of Apollo in Delphi?
500
Brought up on mount Nyssa by Nymphs.
Where did Dionysus' grow up?
500
This divinity heard Persephone's voice but did not see what happened to her.
Hecate
500
Caused a beautiful crocus to grow and tempt Persephone
Gaia
500
The man who cursed Pelops for not allowing him to bed Hippodamia first.