Test Bank For Classical Mythology 11th
Edition Chapter 1-26 Complete Guide .
myth - answers traditional stories about gods and heroes
pantheon - answers all the gods
hesiod - answers human-shaped
9 muses - answers daughters of Zues and mnemosyne
Chaos - answers chasm or void
Cosmos - answers order
Ge or gaia - answers Earth
Erebus - answers Darkness and night
Aether - answers bright air and day
Ouranos or Uranus - answers Heaven
12 Titans - answers Oceanus, Rhea, Thea, Coeus, Crius, Themis, Hyperion,
Mnemosyne, Iapetus, Phoebe, Cronus, Tethys
3 Cyclopses - answers Brontes, Steropes, Arges
3 Hundred-Handers - answers Coittus, Briareus, Gyges
adamant - answers Cronus had a sickle made of adamant, used it castrate Ouranos
Aphrodite - answers "Gift of foam", born from blood of Ouranos reaching Earth, goddess
of love and desire
Cyprogenes - answers cyprus born
Nemesis - answers "Resentment"
Nereus - answers Son of pontus and Gaia
Nereids - answers 50, children of Nereus
Iris - answers Goddess of rainbow, iridescence
,Hecate - answers Goddess of witchcraft and magic, associated with moon
Rhea and Cronus offspring - answers Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus
Metis - answers Zeus' first spouse, cunning, mother of Athena
Leto - answers With Zeus had Artemis and Apollo
Maia - answers Mother of Hermes
Atlas - answers Holds up the sky in the west
Prometheus - answers "Forethought", chained up by Zeus for giving humans fire
Epimetheus - answers "Afterthought", marries Pandora
Pandora - answers "All gifts", made by all the gods as punishment to man
River styx - answers solemn oaths invoke styx, if an oath is broken, gods must lay still
without ambrosia or nectar for a year
Titanochamy - answers War of the Titans
Typhoeus/Typhon - answers youngest son of Earth, revolts against Zeus, but Zeus wins
using lightning bolt. Gets sent to the underworld, as he falls he creates a wind
Themis - answers "established custom", mother of the 3 fates with Zeus
Horai - answers "seasons" , watchers
3 Fates - answers Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos
Persephone - answers Kidnapped by Hades and made queen of the underworld
Hebe - answers Goddess of youth
Eileithyia - answers Goddess of childbirth
Parthenogenesis - answers "Virgin birth", how Hephaestus was born by Hera
Cthonic - answers Underground
Triton - answers Son of Poseidon, messenger of the sea
Helios - answers Personification of the sun
,Asclepius - answers God of medicine
12/14 Olympians - answers Zeus, Hades, Demeter, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Athena,
Aphrodite, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Hephaestus, Dionysus, and Persephone (Hestia and
Hades are omitted often to make 12)
Zeus (Jupiter/Jove) - answers King of Gods, law $ order, justice, enforces fate, sky,
"cloud-gatherer", eagle, oak, lightning
Poseidon (Neptune) - answers God of the sea, earthquakes, horses, trident, married to
Amphitrite
Hades (Pluto/Dis) - answers God of underworld, Lord of the dead, kidnapped
Persephone
Hera (Juno) - answers Woman, marraige, peacock, Queen of heaven, Zeus' sister and
wife, patron of women
Demeter (Ceres) - answers Goddess of grain and agriculture
Hestia (Vesta) - answers Hearth and home, goddess of home and domesticity
Aphrodite (Venus) - answers love, sex, myrtle dove
Ares (Mars) - answers God of war and violence, son of Zeus and Hera, vulture
Athena (Minerva) - answers Conceived by Metis and Zeus, swallowed by Zeus at birth
and later sprang from his head, first child of Zeus, wisdom and reason, owl, olive, patron
goddess of handicrafts (weaving)
Apollo - answers God of wisdom and reason, associated with sun (Phoebus), prophesy,
archer, disease/plague-healing, music/poetry, leader of the muses, lyre, raven, laurel
wreath
Artemis (Diana) - answers twin to Apollo, patron of hunting, bow, arrow, stag, hostile to
men, associated with moon, illogical behavior
Hephaestus (Vulcan) - answers Son of Hera alone, black smith, god of the forge, ugly
and lame, married to Aphrodite
Hermes (Mercury) - answers Son of Zeus and Maia, herald, messenger god, patron of
travelers, merchants and thieves, escorts people to underworld
Dionysus (Bacchus) - answers Son of Zeus and Semele (mortal woman), not mentioned
by Homer, wine, festivity, irrational (opposite of Apollo), male version of Demeter
, 4 Panhellenic (All Greeks) Games - answers Olympic (Zeus), Isthmian at Corinth
(Poseidon), Pythian at Delphi (Apollo), Nemean (Zeus)
Five Ages of Man - answers 1. Gold (Cronus/Saturn)
2. Silver (Zeus)
3. Bronze- Ares (world consumed with violence)
4. Heroes- More righteous and noble than Bronze age
5. Iron- Men are troubled by misery and strife
The Hawk and Nightingale - answers Uses a story about a nightingale being captured
by a hawk to give the lesson that the strong people dictate the rules, and Zeus was in
charge
Perses - answers Hesiod's lazy brother to whom Works and Days is written
Tragedy - answers "goat song", made up of a prologue, parados, several episodes (3-
6), and exodos
Great Dionysia in Athens trilogy - answers Prometheus Bound
Tetralogy - answers Four plays
Satyr-play - answers Form of ancient greek tragicomedy in which actors dressed up as
satyrs and acted in crude manners
Thespis - answers First ever actor, root of thespian
Cavea - answers The seating arena for plays
Orchestra - answers Musicians
Skene - answers Structure of the back theater of a stage
Proscenium - answers Vertical plane of space in a theater
Machina/Mechane - answers A crane used in ancient Greek theaters
Prologue - answers The play is introduced
Parados - answers Chorus enters
Episodes - answers Scenes
Stasima - answers Choral odes
Edition Chapter 1-26 Complete Guide .
myth - answers traditional stories about gods and heroes
pantheon - answers all the gods
hesiod - answers human-shaped
9 muses - answers daughters of Zues and mnemosyne
Chaos - answers chasm or void
Cosmos - answers order
Ge or gaia - answers Earth
Erebus - answers Darkness and night
Aether - answers bright air and day
Ouranos or Uranus - answers Heaven
12 Titans - answers Oceanus, Rhea, Thea, Coeus, Crius, Themis, Hyperion,
Mnemosyne, Iapetus, Phoebe, Cronus, Tethys
3 Cyclopses - answers Brontes, Steropes, Arges
3 Hundred-Handers - answers Coittus, Briareus, Gyges
adamant - answers Cronus had a sickle made of adamant, used it castrate Ouranos
Aphrodite - answers "Gift of foam", born from blood of Ouranos reaching Earth, goddess
of love and desire
Cyprogenes - answers cyprus born
Nemesis - answers "Resentment"
Nereus - answers Son of pontus and Gaia
Nereids - answers 50, children of Nereus
Iris - answers Goddess of rainbow, iridescence
,Hecate - answers Goddess of witchcraft and magic, associated with moon
Rhea and Cronus offspring - answers Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus
Metis - answers Zeus' first spouse, cunning, mother of Athena
Leto - answers With Zeus had Artemis and Apollo
Maia - answers Mother of Hermes
Atlas - answers Holds up the sky in the west
Prometheus - answers "Forethought", chained up by Zeus for giving humans fire
Epimetheus - answers "Afterthought", marries Pandora
Pandora - answers "All gifts", made by all the gods as punishment to man
River styx - answers solemn oaths invoke styx, if an oath is broken, gods must lay still
without ambrosia or nectar for a year
Titanochamy - answers War of the Titans
Typhoeus/Typhon - answers youngest son of Earth, revolts against Zeus, but Zeus wins
using lightning bolt. Gets sent to the underworld, as he falls he creates a wind
Themis - answers "established custom", mother of the 3 fates with Zeus
Horai - answers "seasons" , watchers
3 Fates - answers Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos
Persephone - answers Kidnapped by Hades and made queen of the underworld
Hebe - answers Goddess of youth
Eileithyia - answers Goddess of childbirth
Parthenogenesis - answers "Virgin birth", how Hephaestus was born by Hera
Cthonic - answers Underground
Triton - answers Son of Poseidon, messenger of the sea
Helios - answers Personification of the sun
,Asclepius - answers God of medicine
12/14 Olympians - answers Zeus, Hades, Demeter, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Athena,
Aphrodite, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Hephaestus, Dionysus, and Persephone (Hestia and
Hades are omitted often to make 12)
Zeus (Jupiter/Jove) - answers King of Gods, law $ order, justice, enforces fate, sky,
"cloud-gatherer", eagle, oak, lightning
Poseidon (Neptune) - answers God of the sea, earthquakes, horses, trident, married to
Amphitrite
Hades (Pluto/Dis) - answers God of underworld, Lord of the dead, kidnapped
Persephone
Hera (Juno) - answers Woman, marraige, peacock, Queen of heaven, Zeus' sister and
wife, patron of women
Demeter (Ceres) - answers Goddess of grain and agriculture
Hestia (Vesta) - answers Hearth and home, goddess of home and domesticity
Aphrodite (Venus) - answers love, sex, myrtle dove
Ares (Mars) - answers God of war and violence, son of Zeus and Hera, vulture
Athena (Minerva) - answers Conceived by Metis and Zeus, swallowed by Zeus at birth
and later sprang from his head, first child of Zeus, wisdom and reason, owl, olive, patron
goddess of handicrafts (weaving)
Apollo - answers God of wisdom and reason, associated with sun (Phoebus), prophesy,
archer, disease/plague-healing, music/poetry, leader of the muses, lyre, raven, laurel
wreath
Artemis (Diana) - answers twin to Apollo, patron of hunting, bow, arrow, stag, hostile to
men, associated with moon, illogical behavior
Hephaestus (Vulcan) - answers Son of Hera alone, black smith, god of the forge, ugly
and lame, married to Aphrodite
Hermes (Mercury) - answers Son of Zeus and Maia, herald, messenger god, patron of
travelers, merchants and thieves, escorts people to underworld
Dionysus (Bacchus) - answers Son of Zeus and Semele (mortal woman), not mentioned
by Homer, wine, festivity, irrational (opposite of Apollo), male version of Demeter
, 4 Panhellenic (All Greeks) Games - answers Olympic (Zeus), Isthmian at Corinth
(Poseidon), Pythian at Delphi (Apollo), Nemean (Zeus)
Five Ages of Man - answers 1. Gold (Cronus/Saturn)
2. Silver (Zeus)
3. Bronze- Ares (world consumed with violence)
4. Heroes- More righteous and noble than Bronze age
5. Iron- Men are troubled by misery and strife
The Hawk and Nightingale - answers Uses a story about a nightingale being captured
by a hawk to give the lesson that the strong people dictate the rules, and Zeus was in
charge
Perses - answers Hesiod's lazy brother to whom Works and Days is written
Tragedy - answers "goat song", made up of a prologue, parados, several episodes (3-
6), and exodos
Great Dionysia in Athens trilogy - answers Prometheus Bound
Tetralogy - answers Four plays
Satyr-play - answers Form of ancient greek tragicomedy in which actors dressed up as
satyrs and acted in crude manners
Thespis - answers First ever actor, root of thespian
Cavea - answers The seating arena for plays
Orchestra - answers Musicians
Skene - answers Structure of the back theater of a stage
Proscenium - answers Vertical plane of space in a theater
Machina/Mechane - answers A crane used in ancient Greek theaters
Prologue - answers The play is introduced
Parados - answers Chorus enters
Episodes - answers Scenes
Stasima - answers Choral odes
