CLAS 104 | Questions with 100% Verified Answers | Latest Update
2026/2027
Question: Odysseus
Answer:
-King of Ithica
-Can travel to the underworld and come back
Question: Tiresias
Answer:
-the only one to have his memories intact in the underworld
-allows people to get through to the underworld
Question: Charon
Answer:
Ferryman of the underworld
Question: Aeneas
Answer:
A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
Question: Sibyl of Apollo
Answer:
-Oracle who gives advice to Aeneas
-accompanies him on his journey
Question: Justice/Judgement at death
Answer:
at death, your soul goes to the divine place of four shafts
-two shafts leading to the underworld
-two shafts leading to the sky
-judges determine where you go
-wicked go down, with their crimes listed on their backs
Question: Vergil's idea of Reincarnation
Answer:
-soul is immortal while body decays
-sometimes our body limits our soul
,Question: Plato's view on myth
Answer:
-have religious and philosophical concepts to teach us, often through allegory
-especially useful for the less philosophical
-use common tales to teach
Question: Cerberus
Answer:
3-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades
Question: Plato's idea of reincarnation
Answer:
-Souls choose their next life (human or animal)
-draw random lots to choose new life
-choose a life, and a character, and guardian deity
-hopefully build a better new life, better soul
-the Fates the determine their length of life
Question: Orpheus
Answer:
-born in Thrace
-from one of the Muses (usually Calliope) & Oeagrus (a river god) or Apollo
-singing and music could charm fish, birds, wild animals, even make trees and stones
dance!
-falls in love with eurydice
Question: Thracian Maenads
Answer:
Women who follow Dionysus who killed orpheus because he would not marry them
Question: Eurydice
Answer:
Getting married to Orpheus, dies on her wedding day
Question: Symbols of Orpheus
Answer:
Lyre
, Question: Mystery Religion
Answer:
-all deal with purification & afterlife
-we all have an immortal soul to keep pure to ovoid punishment in the afterlife
-after a period of purification, one is reunited with the divine spirit/God
Question: Europa
Answer:
-a Phoenician princess
-mates with zeus as a bull
-gives birth to 3 boys, Minos, Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon (who will become three
judges in the Underworld)
Question: Laius
Answer:
King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus
-falls in love with pelop's son, kidnaps him
Question: Creon
Answer:
Regent of Thebes and brother of Jocasta, offers the throne and Jocasta to whoever can
rid Thebes of the Sphinx
Question: Tiresias
Answer:
Blind prophet who advised Odysseus
Question: Ismene
Answer:
Antigone's sister, obedient, refuses to help Antigone bury their brother but later tries to
take some of the blame
Question: Seven Against Thebes
Answer:
The seven champions who were killed fighting against Thebes after the fall of Oedipus
Question: Polynices
Answer:
-brother of Antigone, Eteocles, and Ismene, son of Oedipus and Jocasta
-fights his brother "snakes" and both die in battle
2026/2027
Question: Odysseus
Answer:
-King of Ithica
-Can travel to the underworld and come back
Question: Tiresias
Answer:
-the only one to have his memories intact in the underworld
-allows people to get through to the underworld
Question: Charon
Answer:
Ferryman of the underworld
Question: Aeneas
Answer:
A mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War.
Question: Sibyl of Apollo
Answer:
-Oracle who gives advice to Aeneas
-accompanies him on his journey
Question: Justice/Judgement at death
Answer:
at death, your soul goes to the divine place of four shafts
-two shafts leading to the underworld
-two shafts leading to the sky
-judges determine where you go
-wicked go down, with their crimes listed on their backs
Question: Vergil's idea of Reincarnation
Answer:
-soul is immortal while body decays
-sometimes our body limits our soul
,Question: Plato's view on myth
Answer:
-have religious and philosophical concepts to teach us, often through allegory
-especially useful for the less philosophical
-use common tales to teach
Question: Cerberus
Answer:
3-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades
Question: Plato's idea of reincarnation
Answer:
-Souls choose their next life (human or animal)
-draw random lots to choose new life
-choose a life, and a character, and guardian deity
-hopefully build a better new life, better soul
-the Fates the determine their length of life
Question: Orpheus
Answer:
-born in Thrace
-from one of the Muses (usually Calliope) & Oeagrus (a river god) or Apollo
-singing and music could charm fish, birds, wild animals, even make trees and stones
dance!
-falls in love with eurydice
Question: Thracian Maenads
Answer:
Women who follow Dionysus who killed orpheus because he would not marry them
Question: Eurydice
Answer:
Getting married to Orpheus, dies on her wedding day
Question: Symbols of Orpheus
Answer:
Lyre
, Question: Mystery Religion
Answer:
-all deal with purification & afterlife
-we all have an immortal soul to keep pure to ovoid punishment in the afterlife
-after a period of purification, one is reunited with the divine spirit/God
Question: Europa
Answer:
-a Phoenician princess
-mates with zeus as a bull
-gives birth to 3 boys, Minos, Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon (who will become three
judges in the Underworld)
Question: Laius
Answer:
King of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus
-falls in love with pelop's son, kidnaps him
Question: Creon
Answer:
Regent of Thebes and brother of Jocasta, offers the throne and Jocasta to whoever can
rid Thebes of the Sphinx
Question: Tiresias
Answer:
Blind prophet who advised Odysseus
Question: Ismene
Answer:
Antigone's sister, obedient, refuses to help Antigone bury their brother but later tries to
take some of the blame
Question: Seven Against Thebes
Answer:
The seven champions who were killed fighting against Thebes after the fall of Oedipus
Question: Polynices
Answer:
-brother of Antigone, Eteocles, and Ismene, son of Oedipus and Jocasta
-fights his brother "snakes" and both die in battle
