AP Latin: Mythology

zeus's parents

cronus rhea

who were cronus's parents?

gaia uranus

Who were Cronus and Rhea's children?

hestia

hades

hera

demeter

zeus

poseidon

--- ate his children

cronus

---- was impregnated by zeus as a golden shower and gave birth to ----

danae

perseus

---- was danae's father who feared his grandson would overthrow him

acrisius

perseus's father figure on the island of ---

dictys

seriphos

---- sent perseus on the quest to kill medusa

polydectes

---- are the sisters of the gorgons who share an eye and a tooth

graeae

---- was sacrificed to save the city of --- from poseidon

andromeda

athiopia

perseus's wife

Andromeda

---- was born from zeus's head after he ate her mom

athena

God of trickery

Hermes

--- was born from a nymph zeus raped and stole cattle from apollo upon birth

hermes

who traded apollo the lark?

hermes

--- was turned into a cow so zeus could continue seeing her. she was watched over by ----

Io

argus

--- was hera's watchmen with 100 eyes

argus

zeus came to --- as a bull

europa

zeus came to ---- as a shower of gold

danae

zeus came to --- as an eagle and buried her so hera wouldn't find out

thalia

--- was the only man zeus raped and was taken to olympus

ganymede

--- was turned into a monster who eats kids after having an affair with zeus

lamiae

--- gave birth to the fates and the horae

themis

--- gave birth to the muses

mnemosyne

--- was turned into a tree to hide from apollo

daphne

Wife of Theseus who falls in love with her step son

Phaedra

Wife of Minos that bangs out a bull and has the Minotaur

pasiphae

son of zeus and europa

minos

minos's wife

Pasiphae

who lives in the middle of the labyrinth? who built it?

minotaur

daedalus

--- is the reason the laurel tree exists

daphne

founder of athens

Theseus

--- captures helen and attempts to capture persephone

theseus

theseus's lover he abandons for her sister

ariadne

son of Helios who died when became too close to the sun while on the chariot

phaethon

6 rivers of the underworld

styx

lethe

acheron

phlegethon

cocytus

river of wailing

Cocytus

river of fire that leads to tartarus

phlegethon

What did Persephone eat in the Underworld?

pomegranate

river of woe

Acheron

River of Forgetfulness

Lethe

Achilles' mother

Thetis

river of hatred

styx

Founder of Thebes

Cadmus

the golden apple was thrown into the wedding of

peleus thetis

odysseus was a (trojan/greek)

greek

helen's husband

Menelaus

odysseus's dad

Laertes

odysseus's son

Telemachus

Odysseus's wife

Penelope

How does Penelope put off her choice for a new husband?

weaving

Holds Odysseus captive for 7 years

Calypso

who does telemachus visit to ask where odysseus is?

nestor

menelaus

which goddess intervenes in the beginning of the odyssey?

athena

what happens at the land of the lotus eaters?

men dont want to leave

--- is the cyclops odysseus tricks

polyphemus

How does Odysseus get his men out of the Cyclops' cave?

under rams

What does Aeolus give Odysseus?

a bag of winds

---- eat a lot of odysseus's men

laestrygones giants

--- turns odysseus's men into pigs

circe

Who does Odysseus see in the underworld?

his mother

agamemnon

achilles

tiresias

who's cattle did odysseus's men eat?

helios

---- is one of the 5 founders of the ruling family of thebes who sprang from the dragon teeth and has the gift of prophecy

tiresias

odysseus's moom

anticlea

--- killed their husbands on wedding night and were punished by filling jugs with no bottoms

danaids

aeneas's wife

creusa

where is anchises buried?

sicily

who is aeneas to marry in latium?

lavinia

why doesn't aeneas marry lavinia?

amata her mom doesnt want this

juno

who is aeneas supposed to ally with in his war against the ---?

etruscans and arcadians

italians

--- an ally of the italian turnus dies in the aeneid

camilla

mated with a cloud

ixion

romeo and juliet

Pyramus and Thisbe

orpheus's parents

caliope

apollo

who attacked eurydice

satyr

orpheus's wife he wasn't supposed to look at but did

eurydice

why did persephone and hades let orpheus into their world?

his music

god of medicine

Asclepius

aslepius's parents

apollo

coronis