Mythology Exam #3

After leaving Greece, where did Dardanos migrate to?

Leave Greece and goes to Asia Minor

By whom was Ganymede kidnapped due to his exceptional beauty?

Zeus

What was the relationship between Pelops and Poseidon? What is the term used to describe 

Pelops in this relationship?

They had a love affair, love between a god and a mortal

What made Pelops leave Lydia?

Ilos invades Lydia → Pelops flees to Greece

Which Hippodameia does Pelops marry?

Pelops marries Hippodamia

Who violated the guest-host relationship with Pelops? How

Laios, he becomes obsessed with one of Pelop’s sons and kidnaps him

Who ultimately kills Laios? What is their relationship

Oidipous kill Laios, Laios is Oidipous biological son

What happens to the cloud that resembles Hera

Ixion sleeps with the cloud and has a son, Centauros

Who are the sons of the Muse Kalliope and Apollo?

Orpheus and Linus

Whom did Kheiron raise and nourish after his mother was unable to immortalize him?

Achilles

Centauros and Lapithes are the sons of which divine pairing?

Apollo and Stilbe

Whom did Dionysos abduct and marry?

Ariadne

During Peleus + Thetis’ wedding, who throws an apple into the banquet hall? What does their 

name mean

Eris, means strife or discord

After transforming into a stallion, whom did Zeus pursue

Dia and slept with her

Who did the Lapith Caineus sleep with, resulting in being transformed from woman to man?

The sea god Poisoden

What did Thetis (attempt to) do to Akhilles as a baby

Tries to immortalize him

What did Poseidon send that ultimately killed Hippolytus?

Sent a bull to inadvertently kill Hoppolytus

which god is his father? Asklepios

Apollo: father, Koronis: mother

In some versions, Koronis is his mother; how does Apollo find out that she got married? Asklepios

A crow reported the news and Apollo cursed it

What do Kheiron and Asklepios study together?

They study surgery, healing, all things medicine→ bring back the dead

what did Athena give him to enhance his medicine cabine Asklepios

The blood that flowed from the veins of the Gorgon

Which constellation do some consider to be Ganymede?

Aquarius

Which constellation do some consider to be the charioteer Myrtilos?

Auriga

 Be familiar with all three versions of the Milky Way myth

Rhea and the rock, Hera and Herakles, Hera tried to nurse Hermes

Whose crown is associated with Corona Borealis?

Ariane’s

Who was forcibly born before Herakles?

Eurystheus

what city is Herakles born in?

Thebes

Who is his mother and her husband? From where and by whom are they banished?

Amphitryon and Alkmene, from Argos and kicked out by

What god slept with his mother? Disguised as whom? Herakles

• Zeus, disguised as her husband Amphitryon

Who is Linos to Herakles? Where is he from?

His music teacher is Linos from Thracian, Herkales accidentally kills him

What did Herakles do to Erginos and his heralds?

Mutilates them, brutalizes them, and then sends them back on their way. Then killed Erginos

Who is his first wife? Herakles

Megara

after killing his family, from whom does he seek guidance? Herakles

Exiles himself to Thebes, seeks guidance at Delphi from Pythia

Whom does he go to in servitude? What does he assign to Herakles?

• Enslaves himself to Eurystheus, assigned the 12 labors

which lion does he wear the coat of according to Apollodorus

The Kithaironian lion

familiarize yourself with the events around the Lernaian Hydra:

• Who helps Herakles with the task?

Ealias

familiarize yourself with the events around the Lernaian Hydra, What does he do with his arrows?

Dips them into the bile of the Hydra, poisonous arrows now

familiarize yourself with the events around the Lernaian Hydra, Which constellation is the Hydra’s sidekick

Cancer

who does he shoot in the confusion of the centaur wine-stampede? What kind of relationship

 did he have it with Herakles?

Kherion, tutor and mentor relationship

According to Apollodorus, what is the fifth task assigned? What region does he travel to for

 this task

Cleaning up the stables near Olympia

who is his biological father, according to Bacchylides, Theseus

Poseidon

to which king did he have to prove his divine parentage? Theseus

• Minos, dived into the sea to get Minos ring and comes back up with stuff from Poseidon’s underwater 

palace→ Amphitrite gifts stuff to him

What did Amphitrite gift to him in the underwater palace? Theseus

Underwater cloak and purple clothing

Which princess eloped with him? Theseus

Ariadne

Whom does Theseus accompany to the Amazons, and what does Theseus do there?

Went with Herkales, Theseus gets an Amazon princess pregnant and has a son Hippolytus

With which group of animals does Centauros II have children? Who are the children?

Magnesian mares, created race of Thesinean Centaurs

What happens to the women guests at the wedding of Hippodameia & Peirithoos?

They sexually assault all the female guests at the wedding

What caused the centaurs to go crazy while Herakles was visiting Pholos?

Smelled the aroma of wine from Herkales