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mythology english
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King of gods and ruler of mankind | Zeus |
| God of sea, horses, and earthquakes | Poseidon |
| Goddess of hearth and home; sister of Zeus | Hestia |
| God of underworld (did not live on Mount Olympus) | Hades |
| God of war | Ares |
| Goddess of wisdom, war, and weaving | Athena |
| God of sun, music, poetry, and medicine | Apollo |
| Goddess of love and beauty | Aphrodite |
| Messenger-god; god of commerce, travelers, and thieves | Hermes |
| Goddess of moon and hunting; patroness of maidens | Artemis |
| God of fire; forger of armor | Hephaestus |
| What do the gods eat | ambrosia |
| What do the gods drink | nector |
| What runs through the gods' blood | ichor |
| Zeus roman name | Jupiter |
| Poseidon roman name | Neptune |
| Hades roman name | Pluto |
| Hestia roman name | Vesta |
| Hera roman name | Juno |
| Ares roman name | Mars |
| Athena roman name | Minerva |
| Apollo roman name | Apollo |
| Aphrodite roman name | Venus |
| Hermes roman name | Mercury |
| Artemis roman name | Diana |
| Hephaestus roman name | Vulcan |
| Mother earth | Gaea |
| One of the 12 Titans who dethroned his father | Chronos |
| Chronos was kicked out by | Zeus |
| Father heaven | Uranus |
| the beginning | Chaos |
| was in love with himself | Narcissus |
| Chronos's wife, one of the titans | Rhea |
| Nymph who fell in love and was caught by Hera | Echo |
| close friend of Apollo who was killed when Apollo threw a discus; turned into a flower | Hyacinth |
| Shared between Aphrodite and Persephone | Adonis |
| sculpted his ideal woman | Pygmalion |
| was sculpted and then brought to life by Venus | Galatea |
| dies by a viper sting on her wedding; almost brought back to life by Orpheus | Eurydice |
| wonderful musician; almost saves Eurydice | Orpheus |
| falls in love with Thisbe; Romeo | Pyramus |
| falls in love with Pyramus; Juliet | Thisbe |
| turns into a laurel tree by her father to keep from being overtaken by Apollo | Daphne |
| Recieves a golden touch from Dionysis | King Midas |
| Dionysus roman name | Bacchus |
| Demeter roman name | Ceres |
| god of wine and revelry | Dionysus |
| goddess of agriculture | Demeter |
| goddess of spring; daughter of Demeter | Persephone |
| built the very large prison; first aviator | Daedalus |
| son of Daedalus | Icarus |
| gave fire to man | Prometheus |
| betrayed her husband by looking at him | Psyche |
| god of love; Psyche's hubby | Cupid |
| a horse that sprang from the blood of Medusa | Pegasus |
| pegasus's rider | Bellerophon |
| went on the quest of the golden fleece | Jason and the Argonauts |
| frightful flying creatures that swooped over Phineus | Harpies |
| a women warrior tribe | Amazons |
| the three-headed dog that guards the gate to the underworld | Cerberus |
| the wife of Jason who is a sorcerer | Medea |
| Apollo's oracle | Delphi |
| the river by which the gods swear | Styx |
| hero who went after Medusa's head | Perseus |
| main leader of dragon like creatures whose look turned men into stone | Medusa |
| hero who performed the 12 labors | Hercules |
| bull who lived in the Cretan prison | Minotaur |
| Cretan prison built by daedalus | labyrinth |
| half-man, half-horse | centaur |
| a monster defeated by Bellerophon | Chimaera |
| killed the minotaur | Theseus |
| brothers who killed each other | Otus and Ephialtes |
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