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Question 1

What is Zeus’ special weapon?

Answer 1

thunderbolt.

Question 2

Who is the daughter of Zeus whose name means ‘justice’ in english?

Answer 2

Dikê

Question 3

Which animal (other than the cow) reflects Hera’s beauty?

Answer 3

peacock

Question 4

Who is older Zeus or Poseidon?

Answer 4

poseidon

Question 5

According to myth, how many lovers did Zeus have?

Answer 5

115

Question 6

What is the way of analysing myth created by Sigmund Freud?

Answer 6

interpreting dreams. so psychoanalysis (this one im not sure of actual answer)

Question 7

Where did Zeus imprison the titans?

Answer 7

Tartarus

Question 8

What is the term used for a myth that features no divine element?

Answer 8

folktales

Question 9

With which island does Hera associate?

Answer 9

Samos

Question 10

What magical object does Hades have?

Answer 10

cap of invisibility.

Question 11

Who is Hera’s husband?

Answer 11

Zeus

Question 12

Whom did Hades kidnap to be his wife?

Answer 12

Persephone.

Question 13

What is the name of the Russian scholar who analyzed folktale (last name only)?

Answer 13

Propp

Question 14

With which fruit does Hera associate?

Answer 14

Pomegranate.

Question 15

On which island did Zeus grow up?

Answer 15

Crete

Question 16

With which animal does Zeus associate?

Answer 16

eagle

Question 17

Who is the mother of Zeus?

Answer 17

Rhea

Question 18

What is the term used to mean a religion with more than one god?

Answer 18

polytheistic

Question 19

According to hesiod, there are how many ages of humanity?

Answer 19

5

Question 20

Who is the youngest of the children of Cronus and Rhea?

Answer 20

zeus

Question 21

Whom did Hades punish by making him roll a boulder up a hill only for it to roll down again?

Answer 21

Sisyphus

Question 22

According to the ancient Greeks, which god causes earthquakes?

Answer 22

poseidon

Question 23

What is the name of the battle in which the Olympians defeated the Titans?

Answer 23

Titanomachy

Question 24

Which ancient Greek poet wrote a play about the Prometheus myth?

Answer 24

Aeschylus

Question 25

What is the name of the Trojan prince with whom Zeus fell in love?

Answer 25

Ganymede

Question 26

What is the title of the poem by Hesiod that describes the rise of the Olympians?

Answer 26

Theogony

Question 27

From whose severed testes does Aphrodite emerge?

Answer 27

Uranus

Question 28

Which early (pre-Olympian) god represents the desire to procreate?

Answer 28

Eros

Question 29

Which early god's name means 'gap' or 'yawn'?

Answer 29

chaos

Question 30

What does the word myth mean?

Answer 30

a traditional story