CLAS 104 | Questions with 100% Verified Answers | Latest Update
2026/2027
Question: Name of the river of forgetfulness in the Underworld
Answer:
Lethe
Question: What does Odysseus do to summon the dead?
Answer:
He digs a pit and fills it with the blood of sacrificial victims
Question: What is the punishment of Ixion?
Answer:
Imprisonment on a fiery wheel
Question: In the myth of Er, who returns to life as a lion because he
remembered the judgment of Achilles' armour?
Answer:
Ajax
Question: How did Elpenor die?
Answer:
He went to sleep on a roof and fell off
Question: What poet describes the descent of Aeneas into the
Underworld?
Answer:
Vergil
Question: Who was the husband of Alcmena?
Answer:
Amphitryon
Question: Who usurped the throne from Aeson and became king of
Iolcus?
Answer:
Pelias
,Question: Who was the first wife of Heracles, whom he killed in a fit of
rage?
Answer:
Megara
Question: Which companion of Heracles is lost on the Argonaut
expedition?
Answer:
Hylas
Question: What was the name of the Amazon queen whose girdle
Heracles took in battle?
Answer:
Hippolyta
Question: Who aided Heracles in his second Labor by cauterizing the
decapitated stumps of the Hydra?
Answer:
Iolaus
Question: Who was the queen of the Lemian women?
Answer:
Hypsipyle
Question: Whose protection and offer of sanctuary does Medea require
before she puts her murderous plan into action in Euripides'
play?
Answer:
Aegeus
Question: Who was the Boeotian king who took Nephele as his first
wife?
Answer:
Athamas
Question: Which of his tutors did Heracles kill?
Answer:
Linus
, Question: Who was the husband of Laodamia and, though he was the
first Greek hero killed in the war, returned briefly to spend one
final night with her?
Answer:
Protesilaus
Question: Who is the son of Achilles and murderer of Priam?
Answer:
Neoptolemus
Question: What god aids Odysseus' escape from Circe with the aid of
the moly?
Answer:
Hermes
Question: Who is the comrade of Achilles that served as both
companion and tutor to him?
Answer:
Phoenix
Question: What is the name of the son Odysseus has with Circe?
Answer:
Telegonus
Question: Who escorted Priam to Achilles' tent?
Answer:
Hermes
Question: Which is not a name for Underworld spirits that seek blood
retribution?
Answer:
Daemoni
Question: Where is the infant Oedipus exposed?
Answer:
Mt. Cithaeron
2026/2027
Question: Name of the river of forgetfulness in the Underworld
Answer:
Lethe
Question: What does Odysseus do to summon the dead?
Answer:
He digs a pit and fills it with the blood of sacrificial victims
Question: What is the punishment of Ixion?
Answer:
Imprisonment on a fiery wheel
Question: In the myth of Er, who returns to life as a lion because he
remembered the judgment of Achilles' armour?
Answer:
Ajax
Question: How did Elpenor die?
Answer:
He went to sleep on a roof and fell off
Question: What poet describes the descent of Aeneas into the
Underworld?
Answer:
Vergil
Question: Who was the husband of Alcmena?
Answer:
Amphitryon
Question: Who usurped the throne from Aeson and became king of
Iolcus?
Answer:
Pelias
,Question: Who was the first wife of Heracles, whom he killed in a fit of
rage?
Answer:
Megara
Question: Which companion of Heracles is lost on the Argonaut
expedition?
Answer:
Hylas
Question: What was the name of the Amazon queen whose girdle
Heracles took in battle?
Answer:
Hippolyta
Question: Who aided Heracles in his second Labor by cauterizing the
decapitated stumps of the Hydra?
Answer:
Iolaus
Question: Who was the queen of the Lemian women?
Answer:
Hypsipyle
Question: Whose protection and offer of sanctuary does Medea require
before she puts her murderous plan into action in Euripides'
play?
Answer:
Aegeus
Question: Who was the Boeotian king who took Nephele as his first
wife?
Answer:
Athamas
Question: Which of his tutors did Heracles kill?
Answer:
Linus
, Question: Who was the husband of Laodamia and, though he was the
first Greek hero killed in the war, returned briefly to spend one
final night with her?
Answer:
Protesilaus
Question: Who is the son of Achilles and murderer of Priam?
Answer:
Neoptolemus
Question: What god aids Odysseus' escape from Circe with the aid of
the moly?
Answer:
Hermes
Question: Who is the comrade of Achilles that served as both
companion and tutor to him?
Answer:
Phoenix
Question: What is the name of the son Odysseus has with Circe?
Answer:
Telegonus
Question: Who escorted Priam to Achilles' tent?
Answer:
Hermes
Question: Which is not a name for Underworld spirits that seek blood
retribution?
Answer:
Daemoni
Question: Where is the infant Oedipus exposed?
Answer:
Mt. Cithaeron
