CLA 210 Questions and Answers
God thought to be responsible for earthquakes - answer Poseidon
Which of the following gods/goddesses was not a sibling of Zeus? - answer Apollo
This poet is the most important source for Roman myth, and his poetry served as
inspiration for much later art: - answer Ovid
Who attempted to deceive Zeus by hiding the bones inside the fatty skin? - answer
Prometheus
Most of the stories about this god/goddess involve moisture: - answer Dionysus
This person wanders from Greece to Egypt after being turned into a cow by Zeus -
answer Io
The most important source for our understanding of the origin of major deities: - answer
Hesiod
Why was Andromeda chained to a rock? - answer Her mother Cassiopeia bragged
that she was more beatiful than the sea nymphs
Typhon? - answer A dragon-like god created by Gaea to overthrow Zeus
What are the bones of the mother of Deucalion? - answer Rocks
The son of Thetis is prophesied to be more power than his father. How does Zeus
protect his place as king when he learns of this prophecy? - answer He arranges for
Thetis to marry a mortal man.
Parthenos, in Greek, means: - answer Virgin
The telesterion: - answer Place where initiates of Eleusinian mysteries entered
An example of an aetiological myth - answer Man eats meat after a sacrifice
because Zeus was tricked into taking the bones
Before a hunt, to whom might you offer a sacrifice? - answer Artemis
The omphalos (the rock vomited out by Chronus) is closely associated with the temple
of _________? - answer Apollo
The ruler over the Golden Age of men: - answer Cronos
, The Greek god or goddess most closely associated with Inanna / Ishtar: - answer
Aphrodite
How does Perseus get to the land of the Gorgons? - answer Winged Sandals
The correct order of gods, according to Hesiod: - answer Uranus, Cronus, Aphrodite,
Zeus
To whom does Hesiod call for inspiration at the beginning of the Theogony? - answer
Muses
Fate of Tithonus, love of Eos (dawn): - answer Turned into a cicada (grasshopper)
Which god did NOT help in the creation of Pandora - answer Artemis
Which of the following is NOT a common element of a myth? - answer An author
The protector of Xenia (reciprocal hospitality) - answer Zeus
Why does Zeus decide to destroy the world with a flood? - answer He is outraged
because Lycaon attempts to serve him a soup made from a human
The youngest of the Olympians - answer Ares
Which god/goddess battled Athena to be patron of Athens? - answer Poseidon
These two have opposite characteristics: - answer Hestia and Demeter
This goddess usually appears veiled in iconography and rarely leaves Olympus -
answer Hestia
Which of the following was NOT one of the 12 Olympians? - answer Gaea
According to Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium, why did Zeus split humans in half? -
answer Because they attempted to take over Olympus
Which were NOT protected by Hermes? - answer Smiths
In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, what is the main subject of the myth? - answer
Aphrodite falls in love with the mortal Anchises
Which of the following gods cut off his own father's genitals and threw them into the
sea? - answer Cronos
Hera bore ____ - answer Typhon
God thought to be responsible for earthquakes - answer Poseidon
Which of the following gods/goddesses was not a sibling of Zeus? - answer Apollo
This poet is the most important source for Roman myth, and his poetry served as
inspiration for much later art: - answer Ovid
Who attempted to deceive Zeus by hiding the bones inside the fatty skin? - answer
Prometheus
Most of the stories about this god/goddess involve moisture: - answer Dionysus
This person wanders from Greece to Egypt after being turned into a cow by Zeus -
answer Io
The most important source for our understanding of the origin of major deities: - answer
Hesiod
Why was Andromeda chained to a rock? - answer Her mother Cassiopeia bragged
that she was more beatiful than the sea nymphs
Typhon? - answer A dragon-like god created by Gaea to overthrow Zeus
What are the bones of the mother of Deucalion? - answer Rocks
The son of Thetis is prophesied to be more power than his father. How does Zeus
protect his place as king when he learns of this prophecy? - answer He arranges for
Thetis to marry a mortal man.
Parthenos, in Greek, means: - answer Virgin
The telesterion: - answer Place where initiates of Eleusinian mysteries entered
An example of an aetiological myth - answer Man eats meat after a sacrifice
because Zeus was tricked into taking the bones
Before a hunt, to whom might you offer a sacrifice? - answer Artemis
The omphalos (the rock vomited out by Chronus) is closely associated with the temple
of _________? - answer Apollo
The ruler over the Golden Age of men: - answer Cronos
, The Greek god or goddess most closely associated with Inanna / Ishtar: - answer
Aphrodite
How does Perseus get to the land of the Gorgons? - answer Winged Sandals
The correct order of gods, according to Hesiod: - answer Uranus, Cronus, Aphrodite,
Zeus
To whom does Hesiod call for inspiration at the beginning of the Theogony? - answer
Muses
Fate of Tithonus, love of Eos (dawn): - answer Turned into a cicada (grasshopper)
Which god did NOT help in the creation of Pandora - answer Artemis
Which of the following is NOT a common element of a myth? - answer An author
The protector of Xenia (reciprocal hospitality) - answer Zeus
Why does Zeus decide to destroy the world with a flood? - answer He is outraged
because Lycaon attempts to serve him a soup made from a human
The youngest of the Olympians - answer Ares
Which god/goddess battled Athena to be patron of Athens? - answer Poseidon
These two have opposite characteristics: - answer Hestia and Demeter
This goddess usually appears veiled in iconography and rarely leaves Olympus -
answer Hestia
Which of the following was NOT one of the 12 Olympians? - answer Gaea
According to Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium, why did Zeus split humans in half? -
answer Because they attempted to take over Olympus
Which were NOT protected by Hermes? - answer Smiths
In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, what is the main subject of the myth? - answer
Aphrodite falls in love with the mortal Anchises
Which of the following gods cut off his own father's genitals and threw them into the
sea? - answer Cronos
Hera bore ____ - answer Typhon
