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Erebus is:
a. light
b. day
c. gloomy darkness
d. the sun
c. gloomy darkness.
The Hecatonchires have 100:
a. eyes
b. legs
c. feet
d. hands
d. hands.
The Cyclopes are children of:
a. Gaia and Pontus
b. Chaos
c. Zeus and Hera
d. Gaia and Uranus
d. Gaia and Uranus.
The 6,000 children of Oceanus and Tethys are:
a. trees
b. mountains
c. bodies of water
d. winds
c. bodies of water.
Eros is the:
a. son of Uranus
b. god of love
c. messenger god
d. father of Cronus
b. god of love.
,Pontus is:
a. a mountain
b. a region in the Underworld
c. the sea
d. the sky
c. the sea.
The father of Zeus is:
a. Cronus
b. Uranus
c. Prometheus
d. Poseidon
a. Cronus.
Ge is:
a. the consort of Helius
b. a yawning void
c. Earth
d. the mother of Zeus
c. Earth.
The Hecatonchires were children of:
a. Zeus and Hera
b. Uranus and Gaia/Ge
c. Zeus and Metis
d. Cronus and Rhea
b. Uranus and Gaia/Ge.
The mother-earth goddess, Rhea, was the consort of:
a. Cronus
b. Zeus
c. Uranus
d. Tithonus
a. Cronus.
Cronus devoured all his children except:
a. Hera
b. Hades
c. Poseidon
d. Zeus
d. Zeus.
Aphrodite was born as a result of the castration of:
a. Cronus
b. Zeus
,c. Uranus
d. Oceanus
c. Uranus.
Which lover of Eos was granted immortality, but not perpetual youth?
a. Cephalus
b. Tros
c. Tithonus
d. Cinyras
c. Tithonus.
Eos is the goddess of the:
a. night
b. rainbow
c. dawn
d. sun
c. dawn.
Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with the handsome shepherd:
a. Tithonus
b. Endymion
c. Adonis
d. Eros
b. Endymion.
Which of the following drove the chariot of the sun disastrously?
a. Helius
b. Hyperion
c. Apollo
d. Phaëthon
d. Phaëthon.
Greek mythology imagines the earth as a flat disc encircled by:
a. Oceanus
b. Chaos
c. Erebus
d. Uranus
a. Oceanus.
The Titans are the offspring of:
a. Gaia and Eros
b. Gaia and Uranus
c. Gaia and Cronus
d. Gaia alone
b. Gaia and Uranus.
, The Greek term hieros gamos means:
a. an epiphany of the god
b. the birth from Chaos
c. a yawning void
d. a holy marriage
d. a holy marriage.
Which of the following did not arise from Chaos?
a. Tartarus
b. Erebus
c. Uranus
d. Eros
c. Uranus.
What Spanish painter of the 18th and 19th centuries depicted Saturn Devouring
One of His Children?
a. El Greco
b. Goya
c. Velázquez
d. Hidalgo
b. Goya.
Which is not a name of the Cyclopes?
a. Brontes
b. Steropes
c. Arges
d. Briareus
d. Briareus.
What author parodies myth in his comedy entitled Birds?
a. Aristophanes
b. Aeschylus
c. Hesiod
d. Homer
a. Aristophanes.
From what union did Day and Aether come into being?
a. Ge and Uranus
b. Erebus and Night
c. Erebus and Uranus
d. Tartarus and Night
b. Erebus and Night.
Who of the following was the author of the Works and Days?
a. Homer