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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Demeter's name in Latin? | Ceres |
| What is Dionysus' name in Latin? | Bacchus |
| What was the beginning of settled life on Earth? | Cornfields |
| When was Demeter's chief festival? | At the harvest time, in September, cane every 5 years, lasted 9 days |
| Where was Demeter's great temple? | At Eleusis (Elle-ee-you-sis) (a small town near Athens) |
| When was the story of Persephone's kidnapping first told? | In one of the earliest Homeric Hymns |
| What is Persephone in Latin? | Proserpine |
| How long did Demeter wander when Persephone went missing? | 9 days |
| Who found Demeter at the well in Eleusis disguised as an old woman? | 4 sisters |
| What did Demeter tell the 4 sisters that she was doing in Eleusis? | That she fled from pirates who wanted to sell her as a slave |
| What was the name of the 4 sister's mother? | Metaneira (Met-a-nair-a) |
| What kind of drink did Metaneira offer Demeter? | Honey-sweet wine |
| What drink did Demeter want from Metaneira instead of wine? | Barley-water flavoured with mint |
| What was the name of Metaneira's son? | Demophoön |
| Who was Demophoon's father? | (wise) Celeus |
| Who did Zeus tell to go down to the Underworld to get Persephone? | Hermes |
| What did Hades make Persephone eat so that she would return? | A Pomegranate seed |
| Who else did Zeus send to Demeter? | Rhea |
| How long would Persephone be in the Underworld? | A third of the year |
| Who did Demeter choose to be her ambassador to men? | Tripolemus, a prince of Eleusis |
| Did Homer admit Dionysus into Olympus? | No |
| Where are the only early sources for Dionysus' story? | In Hesiod (Hes-ee-ud) in the 8th or 9th century |
| Where is the only account of Dionysus' story on the pirate ship? | In a Homeric Hym as late as the 4th century |
| Which play shares the fate of Pentheus? | The last play of Euripides (you-rip-a-dees) in the fifth century |
| What was Dionysus' own city? | Thebes |
| Who is Dionysus' mother? | Semele, a Theban princess |
| Who is the only god whose parents were not both divine? | Dionysus |
| What did Zeus promise Semele? | He swore to her on the river styx that he would do anything she asked of him |
| What did Semele ask of Zeus? | To see him in his true form as the King of Heaven and Lord of the Thunderbolt |
| Who put the wish to see Zeus into Semele's heart? | Hera |
| Who took Dionysus after he was born and where? | Hermes took him to be cared for by the Nymphs of Nysa |
| Which animal did Dionysus turn into to scare the pirates? | A lion |
| What did the pirates turn into? | Dolphins |
| Who was the only one on the pirate ship not turned into a dolphin? | The helmsman |
| Which king insulted Dionysus when he passed through Thrace? | Lycurgus (Lie-cur-gus) |
| Who turned Lycurgus blind? | Zeus |
| Which princess did Dionysus find on his travels? | Ariadne (Air-ee-add-ni), the princess of Crete |
| Where did Dionysus find Ariadne? | On the island of Naxos |
| Who had abandoned Ariadne on the island? | Theseus, prince of Athens |
| What were the crazy murder women who were frenzied with wine called? | Maenads (me-nads) of Bacchantes (Back-ants) |
| Which Theban king was Dionysus' cousin? | Pentheus (Pen-the-us) (he was the son of Semele's sister |
| Who was the speaker/solemn who warned Pentheus that Dionysus was a god? | The old blind prophet Teiresias, (Ter-ee-see-us) the holy man of Thebes |
| Who were some of the Theban women who had joined Dionysus' followers? | Pentheus' mother and aunts |
| What did Dionysus make the women think Pentheus was? | A mountain lion |
| When was Dionysus' festival and how long was it? | In spring, 5 days |
| How did Dionysus die? | He is torn to pieces |
| Who kills Dionysus? | In some stories the Titans, in others by Hera's orders |
| Who became the center of the belief in immortality? | Dionysus |
| When did which Greek writer receive news that one of his daughters had died? | Plutarch received of his little daughter's death in 80 AD |
| Who is the only person who tells the story of Cupid & Psyche? | Apuleius, a Latin writer of the 2nd century AD |
| How many sisters did Psyche have? | 2, she was the youngest |
| What did Aphrodite tell Cupid to do to Psyche? | Make her fall madly in love with the vilest creature in the whole world |
| What carried Psyche to her mansion? | Zephyr, the god of the west wind |
| What did Psyche's sisters tell her to do when her husband fell asleep? | Get out of bed, light a lamp, and get a knife |
| Where would Psyche have plunged the knife she was holding if it had fallen? | Into her own breast |
| What woke Cupid up? | Hot oil that fell from the lamp onto his shoulder |
| What was Psyche's first task? | She had to sort a bunch of tiny seeds |
| What were the small seeds Psyche had to sort? | Wheat, poppy, millet, etc. |
| When did the seeds have to be sorted? | By nightfall |
| Who helped Psyche sort the seeds? | Ants |
| What was Psyche's second task? | She had to get some wool from sheep with gold fleeces |
| What did Psyche want to do when she reached the river to get the wool? | Commit suicide |
| Who helped Psyche with task #2 and stopped her from killing herself? | A green reed |
| What was Psyche's third task? | She had to fill a flask from a waterfall that connected to the river Styx |
| Who helped Psyche with task #3? | An eagle |
| What was Psyche's fourth task? | She had to go to the underworld and ask Proserpine for a box of her beauty |
| Where did Psyche find a guide to the underworld? | In a tower she passed |
| How much did Psyche have to pay Charon? | 1 penny |
| How did Psyche pass Cerberus? | She gave him cake |
| How did Cupid wake Psyche? | He pricked her with one of his arrows |
| Who brought Psyche to the palace of the gods? | Mercury |
| Who gave Psyche ambrosia? | Zeus |
| What does Psyche mean? | Soul |
| Where is the story of Atreus' and Thystes' crimes taken from? | Aeshylus' Oresteia |
| What was Aeschylus' great drama called? | The Oresteia |
| What is the Oresteia made up of? | Three parts: -The Agamemnon -The Libation Bearers (Lie-bay-shon) (Bear-rz) -The Eumenides (You-men-a-dees) |
| Who tells the current tale of Tantalus? | Pindar (in the early 5th century) |
| What house did Agamemnon belong to? | The house of Atreus |
| Who led the Greeks against Troy? | Agamemnon |
| Who is Agamemnon's wife? | Clytemnestra (klay-tem-nes-truh) |
| Who were Oretes' two sisters? | Iphigenia and Electra |
| Who was Menelaus' (men-a-lee-us) brother? | Agamemnon |
| Who was Helen's husband | Menelaus (men-a-lee-us) |
| Who was Clytemnestra's son? | Orestes |
| Who had caused the curse of the house of Atreus? | Tantalus |
| Who was Tantalus' father? | Zeus |
| How was Pelops killed? | He was boiled in a cauldron and served to the gods for dinner |
| Who killed Pelops? | Tantalus (his father) |
| Where was Tantalus the king of? | Lydia |
| Who was Iphigenia's father? | Agamemnon |
| What was Tantalus' punishment? | He was stuck in a pool of Hades where he could never drink the water he was standing in or eat the fruit from the tree above him |
| What was some of the fruit in the trees that Tantalus couldn't reach? | Pears, pomegranates, apples, figs |
| Who brought Pelops back to life? | The gods |
| What limb was missing from Pelops? | His shoulder |
| What was the material used for Pelops' shoulder? | Ivory |
| Who ate Pelops' shoulder? | Some say Demeter, some say Thetis |
| Who did Pelops woo? | Princess Hippodamia (hippo-dame-ee-a) |
| Who gave Hippodamia's father his horses? | Ares |
| Who gifted Pelops his horses? | Poseiodon |
| Who did Hippodamia bribe to let Pelops win the horse race? | Myrtilus (Mer-till-us) (her father's charioteer) |
| Who killed Myrtilus? | Pelops |
| Who was Niobe's father? | Tantalus |
| Who was Niobe's husband? | Amphion |
| Who was Zethus' twin brother? | Amphion |
| Who was Amhion's father? | Zeus |
| How many sons did Niobe have? | 7 |
| Who did Niobe insult? | Leto |
| Where was Niobe the queen of? | Thebes |
| Who killed Niobe's children? | Artemis and Apollo |
| How many daughters did Niobe have? | 7 |
| What was Niobe changed into? | A stone that was always wet with tears |
| Who was Thyestes (thigh-es-teas)' brother? | Atreus |
| Who was Atreus' father? | Pelops |
| Who fell in love with Atreus' wife? | Thyestes |
| Who killed Thyestes' children? | Atreus |
| Who served Thyestes' children to Thyestes? | Atreus |
| Who killed Aegithus (A-gees-tis)? | Orestes |
| Who said that the death of the son of Atreus will be avenged by Orestes? | Hermes |
| Where is the first mention of the house of Atreus? | The Illiad |
| Who killed Agamemnon? | Aegisthus with Clytemnestra |
| Who were the two sons of Atreus? | Agamemnon (Commander of the Greek forces @ Troy) and Menelaus (Helen's husband) |
| Who drove Menelaus' ship to Egypt by a storm? | Athena |
| Who sacrificed Iphigenia? | Agamamnon |
| Who was Cassandra? | A captive woman that had been the Army's gift to Agamemnon |
| Who was Priam's daughter? | Cassandra |
| Who was Clyemnestra's lover? | Aegisthus (A-gees-tis) (youngest child of Thyestes) |
| Who was Orestes' cousin and friend? | Pylades (pill-a-dees) |
| Where is the story of Iphigenia among the Taurians taken from? | two plays of Euripides |
| Where was Iphigenia sacrificed? | At Aulis (O-lees) |
| Where did Artemis take Iphigenia? | To the land of the Taurians |
| Where is the land of the Taurians today? | Crimea |
| What did Artemis make Iphigenia? | A priestess who conducted the sacrifices |
| Which sea was the land of the Taurians at? | The unfriendly sea |
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