Fun Trivia : Greek Myth

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What island did Odysseus land on that was filled with giant cannibals?

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Laestrygonia.



Which poet was responsible for fabricating the Helen of Troy abduction?

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Stesichorous .



Which person had the voice of 50 people combined?

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stentor.



Which hero was whisked up by Zeus, who assumed the form of an eagle?

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Ganymede.



Who was the father of Patroclus?

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Menoetes.



Of the five rivers of the underworld (those which separate Earth from Hades), which is the River of Fire?

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Phlegethon. The others are: Acheron - River of {Woe;} Cocytus - River of {Lamentation;} Lethe - River of {Forgetfulness;} and Styx - River of Hate.



By Zeus, Alcmene is mother to Heracles. However, Heracles has a 'twin' half-brother, Iphicles, born at the same time but sired by a different father. Which is the father of Iphicles?

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Amphitryon. Aeacus, son of Zeus and Aegina, is the pious monarch of the island of Aegina, which was named after his {mother;} after his death he was made a judge in hades. Oeagrus is a Thracian king, the father of Orpheus. Taphius is a son of Poseidon and Hippothoe, regarded as the founder of the city Taphos on the island with the same name.



Which is NOT a son of Zeus?

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Orion. Orion is a son of Poseidon and Euryale. Amphion's mother is the nymph Antiope (queen of Thebes). Arcus' mother is the nymph Callisto, who was turned into a bear by Hera out of envy. Sarpedon is the son of Zeus and {Europa;} he was banished by his brother Minos and moved to Asia Minor, where he became king of the Lycians



Which three are the Charites (Graces)?

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Aglaea, Euphrosyne and Thalia. Aglaea (splendor), Euphrosyne (mirth) and Thalia (good cheer) are the Charities. Tisiphone (the avenger of murder), Megaera (the jealous one) and Alecto (unceasing in anger) are the Erinyes (also called Furies). Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the apportioner) and Atropos (the inevitable) are the Moirae (Fates). Melete, Mneme, and Aoede are the original three Muses before their number increased to nine (and names changed, too).



They are the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, virgin companions of {Artemis;} when Orion pursued them, they pray to the gods who changed them into doves, then later into stars that form a part of the constellation of Taurus. In another myth, they commit suicide after the death of their sisters the Hyades. Who are they?

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the Pleiads. The Pleiads are Alcyone, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Sterope, Merope and Taygete. The Heliades are the 3 daughters of Helios, who mourned brother Phaeton so that the godspitied them and changed them into poplar trees The Litai are sisters of the goddess Ate (a goddess of discord and mischief), who follow her to try to repair the damage she brings to mortals. The Thriae are 3 holy virgin sisters, lesser nature goddesses who can foresee the future.



Which are members of Jason's famous Argonauts?

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Autolycus, Zetes, Castor and Peleus. Everyone mentioned is a member of the Argonauts EXCEPT: Thersander (a son of one of the Seven Against Thebes), Boreas (the god of the North Wind), and Apsyrtus (younger brother of Medea).



From which god did King Midas receive his Golden Touch?

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Dionysus. Dionysus gave Midas one wish as a reward for the king's hospitality toward a drunken Silenus (who was the god's surrogate {father);} Midas asked for the Golden Touch, then later pleaded for it to be removed after accidently killing his own daughter. I will conceed to a note from Player strategos who has read Midas received his 'gift' from Apollo (thus I have removed him as a choice), but my various sources all say it was Dionysus.



Who are Briareus, Cottus and Gyes?

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the Hecatonchires. The Hecatonchires are monsters who each had one hundred hands and fifty heads.



Eos, the personification of the dawn, was punished by Aphrodite (for sleeping with Ares) in what way?

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she was made a nymphomaniac. Her lovers were Orion, Cephalus and Tithonus.



Meleager, lover of Atalanta (he gave her the Calydonian Boar's pelt), was to live as long as what remained unconsumed?

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a fire brand. The Moirae (Fates) prophesied at his birth that Meleager would live only so long as a brand burning upon the hearth remained unconsumed. His mother Althaea snatched the brand from the fire and kept it in a safe place. Upon hearing that Meleager had killed her brothers (after the Calydonian Boar Hunt, when they tried to steal the prize from Atalanta), Althaea cast the brand onto the fire and let it burn up, causing Meleager's immediate - and very painful - death.



Ixion is known to the Greeks as the first human to do what?

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murder a kinsman. Ixion invited his father-in-law, Deioneus, to come and collect the price that Ixion owed him for his bride. Upon his arrival, Deioneus fell into a pit filled with burning coals Ixion had camouflaged.



Despite being a virgin, Athena is considered the mother of which mythical Athenian king?

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Erichthnonius. Hephaestus supposedly attempted to rape Athena, but was not successful, and impregnated Gaia by accident: thus Erichthonius was born. Because Gaia did not want the child, Athena took care of Erichthonius as though he were her son. Actually, she gave him to her priestesses at the sanctuary of the Athenian Acropolis to raise, but she is still considered his mother.



Hermione is the daughter of what two notable figures in Greek mythology?

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Helen of Troy and Menelaus. Before Paris abducted Helen and began the Trojan War, Helen and Menelaus lived for quite a few years as husband and wife.



In later mythology Eros is the offspring of Aphrodite and Ares. However, originally he was born of whom?

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Chaos. Eros, god of love and sexual desire, also worshiped as a fertility god, was initially believed to be a contemporary of the primeval Chaos (the great void of emptiness within the universe), which makes Eros one of the oldest gods ('brother' of Gaia, the earth). Over time he was 'reinvented' as the winged child of Aphrodite and associated with the Roman god Cupid. Yet another legend says that he was the son of Iris (personified goddess of the rainbow) and Zephyrus (god of the west wind).



Cronus supposedly could see everything in the realms of the earth, heavens, and the sea), so how did Zeus' nurse hide the infant god after Gaia convinced Cronos to swallow a stone instead?

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hung him from a tree. According to one legend, the nurse (who has been given almost a dozen different names)deceived Cronos by hanging the baby Zeus (in his cradle) from a tree, so that suspended between earth, sea, and sky he was invisible to his father. Another legend says that Rhea (Zeus' mother hid her son in a cave and had the Curetes (vegetation demons)wait outside the mountain and bang their shields together to cover the baby's cries.



Himerus is the goddess or personification of?

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sexual desire. Icelus is the god of dreams (various types), Hymen (or Hymenaeus) was the goddess of the marriage feast or song, and Apate is the goddess of deceit.



Leda, Queen of Sparta, gave birth to two of her children in an unusual way. What was it?

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she birthed an egg which hatched her children. Leda was seduced by Zeus when he came to her in the form of a swan. Leda gave birth to an egg, which hatched the Dioscuri (the twins Castor and Pollux). With Zeus she also had Helen and with her husband Tyndareus she had Clytemnestra.



The three original muses - Aoide, Melete and Mneme - were the muses of...?

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Song, Meditation and Memory. The later nine muses were Calliope (eloquence and epic or heroic poetry), Clio (historical and heroic poetry), Erato (lyric poetry - particularly love and erotic poetry - and mimicry), Euterpe (music and lyric poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (sacred hymn, eloquence and dance), Terpsichore (dancing and the dramatic {chorus;} later of lyric poetry), Thalia (comedy and pastoral poetry), and Urania (astronomy and astrology).



Alcippe, daughter of Ares and Aglaulus, was raped by which of Poseidon's sons?

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Halirrhotius. Ares then killed the rapist, and was brought before the other gods to go on trial for murder; the first murder trial. After hearing the brutal facts of the case they quickly acquitted him.



He is the Graeco-Roman personified god of the river Nile. In Egyptian he was called Hapi. What is his Greek name?

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Nilus. Epaphus is the son of Zeus and Io born on the banks of the Nile. Apophis is Greek rendering of the Egyptian snake of the underworld. Proteus is a prophetic sea divinity who usually stays on the Island of Pharos near Egypt.



What did Jason fight to get the golden fleece? (Jason and the Argonauts)?

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A dragon.



How many main gods and goddesses are there on Olympus (Gods and Goddesses such as Zeus, Hera and Aphrodite.)?

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12.



What creature was Io turned into?

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A Calf.



Who is the Goddess of the Rainbow?

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Iris.



Who is the Goddess of the hunt and the moon?

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Artemis. She is also Apollo's sister.



What is the Roman name for Hephaestus?

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Vulcan.