Certamen Mythology Quizlet

The armor of Achilles, palaces for all the Olympians, and the woman Pandora are among the most famous creations of what divine craftsman and god of metallurgy?

HEPHAESTUS / VULCAN

B1: Name Hephaestus’ wife, whose affair he exposed with an invisible net he himself had fashioned?

APHRODITE

B2: What task did Hephaestus undertake to alleviate Zeus’ pain after he had swallowed his pregnant wife Metis?

SPLIT ZEUS’ HEAD OPEN WITH AN AX (TO BIRTH ATHENA)

Who was struck by Zeus’ thunderbolt for parading around his city with dried hides and bronze kettles claiming to be an equal of the god?

SALMONEUS

B1: Who was struck by Zeus’ thunderbolt for scaling the walls of Thebes insisting that not even the god could stop him?

CAPANEUS

B2: Who was struck by Zeus’ thunderbolt for bragging openly about his affair with Aphrodite?

ANCHISES

Who was tried on the Areopagus for the murder of his nephew, whom he had killed after discovering that the boy had surpassed him as an inventor?

DAEDALUS

B1: After his exile from Athens, in what king’s court did Daedalus take refuge?

MINOS / MINOS'

B2: Before building the Labyrinth at Minos’ request, what did Daedalus construct for Minos’ wife, Queen Pasiphaë?

WOODEN / HOLLOW COW

What island, the principal cult center of Aphrodite, was home to the incestuous king Cinyras and the sculptor Pygmalion?

CYPRUS

B1: What youth was the offspring of Cinyras’ union with his daughter Myrrha?

ADONIS

B2: Who was the daughter of Pygmalion, after whom Aphrodite’s chief cult city in Cyprus is named?

PAPHOS

After killing the Calydonian boar, what hero offered its hide to Atalanta, whom he had fallen in love with and who had been the first to draw blood from the beast?

MELEAGER

B1: Who was Meleager’s father, whose negligence in a sacrifice had incurred the wrath of Artemis, leading to the arrival of the Calydonian boar?

OENEUS

B2: After Meleager’s death, what woman, his wife, killed herself from grief as his mother Althaea had done?

CLEOPATRA

One might think the god of archery would have better aim, but what youth from Amyclae was killed when his lover Apollo threw a discus and accidentally hit him?

HYACINTH(US)

B1: Some claim that Apollo did not, in fact, miss, but that the discus was redirected by what god of the West Wind?

ZEPHYR(US)

B2: Nearly all of Apollo's numerous affairs are tragic, though a notable exception is his success with what athletic nymph, whom he saw wrestling a lion on Mt. Pelion and whisked away to Libya?

CYRENE

What character in mythology was named for the swollen condition of his once-pierced feet after he was abandoned by his father Laius on Mt. Cithaeron?

OEDIPUS

B1: Name the couple who rescued Oedipus from Mt. Cithaeron and raised him as their own.

POLYBUS and MEROPE / PERIBOEA

B2: After Oedipus killed his father Laius at a crossroads, he married his mother Jocasta. Name either the two sons or two daughters that came from this incestuous marriage.

POLYNEICES and ETEOCLES / ANTIGONE and ISMENE

What Greek warrior was so overcome with anger at the death of his beloved friend Patroclus that he re-entered battle and killed dozens of Trojans, including Hector?

ACHILLES

B1: What Greek commander-in-chief had previously angered Achilles so much that he had retired to his camp and refused to fight?

AGAMEMNON

B2: Who was the mother of Achilles, who had tried to prevent him from going to war by entrusting him to King Lycomedes to be raised as one of his daughters?

THETIS

What mythological character’s death is described by the following quotation from Ovid, translated into English: “The poet’s limbs were strewn in different places: the head and the lyre you, Hebrus, received, and (a miracle!) floating in midstream, the lyre lamented mournfully; mournfully the lifeless tongue murmured; mournfully the banks echoed in reply.”

ORPHEUS

B1: Orpheus’ head and lyre floated all the way to what island in the Aegean Sea?

LESBOS

B2: Name Orpheus’ wife, who had been killed when she stepped on a snake while fleeing from Aristaeus.

EURYDICE

A lantern swaying in a lighthouse on the shore of the Hellespont was the guiding light for what man in mythology as he swam across every night to see his lover?

LEANDER

B1: Unfortunately, one night, the light was put out by the wind and Leander drowned, putting a tragic end to this forbidden love. A tragedy to rival this is the story of what two Babylonian lovers who committed suicide after an attempted meeting went awry?

PYRAMUS and THISBE

B2: As you can see, many love affairs in mythology went horribly wrong. However, tales of lasting love do exist. What old couple, after hosting the disguised Zeus and Hermes, were transformed into oak and linden trees so they could be together forever?

BAUCIS and PHILEMON