JCL MYTHOLOGY QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Poseidon - ANSWER Earth-Shaker God of the sea
Olympus - ANSWER Mountaintop home to the Greek gods
Graces - ANSWER Personification of beauty
Nemean lion - ANSWER A giant lion invulnerable to weapons killed by Hercules
Perseus - ANSWER He and his mother were put into a chest and dropped into the sea but were rescued
by a fisherman
Hecate - ANSWER An underworld goddess. She was a Titaness who had retained her position
Medusa - ANSWER A gorgon with a stare that could turn you into stone
Typhoeus - ANSWER A powerful monster that defeated Zeus at first but was later conquered by the
thunderbolts of Zeus
Furies - ANSWER They were sent to punish the guilty and wicked
Pandora - ANSWER Epimetheus accepted this woman as a gift from Zeus, but she was too curious and
opened the box
Thalia - ANSWER The muse of comedy
Icarus - ANSWER He ignored his father's instructions and flew too close to the sun, and his wings fell
apart
, Ismene - ANSWER Out of fear, she refused to help her sister bury their brother
Hippolyte - ANSWER One of the labors of Hercules was to fetch the garden of this Queen of the Amazons
Chimaera - ANSWER A beast part lion part goat part snake
Mercury - ANSWER He accompanied Jupiter disguised in a visit to Baucus and Philemon
Tiresias - ANSWER The blind prophet of Thebes
Ariadne - ANSWER She aided Theseus in escaping the labyrinth by providing him with a ball of yarn
Tithonus - ANSWER Eos loved him and ask for eternal life for him but forgot to request eternal youth, so
he became a cricket
Creon - ANSWER He denied honorable burial to his nephew and the enemy soldiers, which led to much
sorrow and death
Niobe - ANSWER She bragged of her many children, which offended Leto, and Apollo/Art killed them
Thisbe - ANSWER She fell in love with Pyramus through a chink in the wall separating them
Aegina - ANSWER The mother of Aeacus by Zeus, her son named his Island after her
Scylla - ANSWER This monster sat on the shore opposite Charybdis, grabbing soldiers to eat
Autonoe - ANSWER The mother of Actaeon who tore her son apart in a Bacchic frenzy
Iphicles - ANSWER When snakes crawled into his crib, he cried and was terrified, which told his father
which son was his
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