Heracles
Odysseus
Trojan War
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100
Heracles's cousin, from Mycenae.
Who is King Eurystheus?
100
Don't eat these narcotic flowers or you will forgot about everything that is important to you!
What is lotus?
100
This goddess of discord was angry about being left off the wedding guest of Thetis and King Peleus.
Who is Eris?
100
A creature with the head, arms, and torso of a man and the body and legs of a horse.
What is a centaur?
100
A creature who was half man and half bull.
What is the Minotaur?
200
Hera sent two of these to kill Heracles in his crib when he was a baby.
What are serpents?
200
Odysseus joked that his name was this______ when Polyphemus the Cyclops demanded to know who had pierced his eye with a red hot poker.
What is Nobody?
200
This shepherd prince chooses Aphrodite's bribe and ends up running away with Helen. Did he cause the Trojan War?
Who is Paris?
200
A priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods.
What is an oracle?
200
The drink of the gods.
What is nectar?
300
For his fifth labor, Hera demanded Heracles bring back one her stags - alive!
Who is Artemis?
300
This beautiful enchantress turned his mighty warriors into pigs, but Odysseus was protected from her magic by drinking a gift of herbs from Hermes.
Who is Circe?
300
He sends a thousand ships after his wife Helen when she runs away to Troy with her lover, Paris.
Who is Menelaus?
300
A traditional story explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
What is a myth?
300
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
What is a constellation?
400
For his seventh labor Heracles had to visit Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and return with this.
What is the golden girdle.
400
Odysseus spent seven years on this nymph's island until Hermes (under orders from Zeus) told her to let him go.
Who is Calypso?
400
This Prince of Troy killed a friend of Achilles and stole his armor. Achilles rejoined the war and killed him, then dragged his body behind a chariot around the walls of Troy as a warning.
Who is Hector?
400
A painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling.
What is a fresco?
400
Excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods. In modern meaning it has to do with being arrogant or too self confident.
What is hubris?
500
Heracles held the Earth while this Titan picked three golden apples.
Who is Atlas?
500
In order to prove his identity to his wife Penelope, Odysseus strung his own bow and shot an arrow through twelve of these joined together.
What is an ax handle?
500
Home of Menelaus and Helen, before she runs off and starts a war.
What is Sparta?
500
The belief in or worship of more than one god.
What is polytheism?
500
A long or arduous search for something or an expedition made by a hero to accomplish a prescribed task.
What is a quest?