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The Ultimate List #1
Mythology
Question | Answer |
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Greek, killed Hector | ACHILLES |
Greek, married to Clytemnestra, sacrificed daughter, Iphigenia | AGAMEMNON |
god of poetry, prophecy, medicine, light; associated with Hyperion | APOLLO |
sent by Juno to watch Io; Hermes put him to sleep; has 100 eyes; the source of Juno's symbol (the peacock) | ARGUS |
created by Charles Perrault; had seven wives and told them not to open a certain locked door in his house- if they did, they would die (6 of them did) | BLUEBEARD |
Valkyrie, servant of Odin, loved Siegrfied | BRUNNHILDE |
fairy tale created by Charles Perrault | CINDERELLA |
sat under a sword held by a single hair | DAMOCLES |
2 really, really, really, loyal friends | DAMON AND PYTHIAS |
queen of Carthage | DIDO |
daughter of Agamemnon, helped her brother Orestes kill their mother | ELECTRA |
ROMAN half-man half-goat creatures | FAWNS |
hideous female monsters who pursued evildoers | FURIES |
goddess of the earth, mother of the Titans and Cyclops | GAEA |
rode naked through the streets of Coventry | LADY GODIVA |
3 goddesses of lovliness and charm | GRACES |
prince of Troy, bravest Trojan warrior, killed by Achilles | HECTOR |
Trojan priest who warned the Trojans not to accept the horse | LAOCOON |
mortal who was raped by Zeus, who was in the form of a swan | LEDA |
god of sleep and dreams | MORPHEUS |
Greek goddess of vengeance | NEMESIS |
female spirits who lived in forests, bodies of water, and other places outdoors | NYMPHS |
ruler of Norse gods, god of wisdom, poetry, farming, and war | ODIN |
gave fire to man, was chained to a rock with eagles gnawing at his liver as punishment | PROMETHEUS |
god who served Poseidon and could change his shape at will | PROTEUS |
father of Zeus, fled from Olympus after Zeus defeated the Titans | SATURN |
6 headed monster and whirlpool, respectively | SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS |
had to roll a rock up a hill forever; when he got it to the top, it would roll right back down and he would have to do it again | SISYPHUS |
the wind | ZEPHYR |