intermediate mythology certamen

Who murdered a youth named Absyrtus to slow down the pursuit of King Aeetes when he was chasing her and her newfound love Jason?

Medea

What specifically did Medea do to Absyrtus' body that kept Aeetes busy?

She scattered its pieces across the water

On their voyage back to Iolcus, who purified Jason and Medea of murder?

Circe

What Trojan killed Menesthes, Anchialus, Protesilaus, and Patroclus during the Trojan War before he was killed by Achilles and dragged around the walls of Troy?

Hector

Hector was able to kill Patroclus only after what god had stunned him three times?

Apollo

Who obtained new armor for Achilles so that he could wreak vengeance on Hector?

Thetis

What Lydian queen was Heracles ordered to serve for a span of either one or three years?

Omphale

Heracles was ordered to serve Omphale to atone for killing what son of Eurytus?

Iphitus

How did Omphale especially degrade Heracles while he was in her service?

made him act feminine

Who turned Aconteus, Phineus, Atlas, and Polydectes into stone with the head of the Gorgon Medusa, whom he had recently slain?

Perseus

For whom was the head of Medusa supposed to be a wedding present?

Polydectes

Which man was the uncle of Andromeda, to whom she had been betrothed before Perseus saved her from a sea monster?

Phineus

Whom did Zeus help in his quest to seduce Aphrodite by stealing one of her sandals?

Hermes

Who was the one child of Hermes and Aphrodite?

Hermaphroditus

What nymph joined her body with that of Hermaphroditus while he was swimming in her spring?

Salmacis

What Greek hero wrestled such characters as a river god, Death, and a giant who gained strength whenever he touched the ground?

Heracles

Whose life did Heracles save by wrestling Death?

Alcestis

Why did Heracles wrestle the river Achelous?

for the hand of Deianeira

Who, ransomed by his sister at a young age, fathered children including Ilione, Troilus, Deiphobus, Cassandra, and Hector?

Priam

What son of Priam, who had gained the gift of prophecy when snakes licked his ears, was captured by the Greeks during the sack of Troy?

Helenus

What son of Priam was murdered before the eyes of his father right before Priam's own death at the hands of the same man?

Polites

Because he threatened the succession of her son Medus to the throne of Athens, whom did Medea attempt to poison as he dined with his father Aegeus?

Theseus

Aegeus had not yet recognized his son. What item proved Theseus' identity just in time to save him from the poisoned glass?

sword

Before this banquet, Medea had convinced Aegeus to send Theseus to capture what animal?

Cretan bull

Where in the Underworld would you find Anchises, Menelaus, and the other blessed dead?

Elysium

On a beach on the island of Scheria, who encountered the naked Odysseus?

Nausicaa

From where had Odysseus left in a raft which was eventually destroyed by a storm?

Ogygia

What sea goddess, once a Theban princess, helped Odysseus at sea by giving him her veil as protection?

Ino/Leucothea

What hero, by walking from the Anaurus River to the city of Iolcus with only one sandal, fulfilled a prophecy told to his uncle Pelias?

Jason

What impossible assignment did Pelias give Jason?

to retrieve the golden fleece

Jason assembled a crew to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Who built the boat for their journey across the Black Sea?

Argus

Which of the following did not fight on the same side of the Trojan War as the others: Phoenix, Philoctetes, Glaucus, Antilochus, or Meriones?

Glaucus

What Greek captain did Phoenix accompany to Troy?

Achilles

With what Cretan king did Meriones sail to Troy?

Idomeneus

What daughter of Schoeneus bore a son who later fought with the Seven against Thebes to a man she met during the Calydonian Boar Hunt?

Atalanta

Whose chariot did Atalanta help pull after she was transformed into a lioness?

Cybele

Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia are the spawn of what prominent river of the Underworld?

Styx

According to Aeschylus, which god did Kratos and Bia help in chaining Prometheus to the Caucasus mountain?

Hephaestus

What did Styx do to earn the eternal respect of Zeus and the other gods, so much so that they swore their most solemn oaths upon her?

She and her children were the first to join the Olympians' cause against the Titans.

Why was Odysseus' last remaining ship destroyed by a lightning bolt?

Odysseus's crew ate the cattle of the sun.

Which of Odysseus' crew members convinced the crew to eat the cattle against Odysseus' explicit orders?

Eurylochus

What goddess' epithets include "Ergane" and "Promachus"?

Athena

Which of Athena's physical attributes is described by the epithet "Glaukopis?

her gray eyes

For what son of Celeus did the disguised Demeter serve as a caretaker?

Demephoōn

Who was Demophoön's mother, who caught Demeter roasting him in the fire?

Metaneira

Whom had Demeter previously turned into a lizard for ridiculing her while she imbibed her barley beverage?

Ascalabus / Stellio

Who, to escape his murderous step-mother, was carried from Orchomenos to Aea on the back of a golden ram?

Phrixus

Who later rescued Phrixus' shipwrecked sons from the island of Ares?

Jason & the Argonauts