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Mythology Study Guide Questions and Answers chronus chief ruler, father of Zeus Ocean encircled the earth 0:05 / 0:15 Atlas bore the world on his shoulders, Knew where the golden apples of the Hesperides were located Prometheus savior of mankind Zeus/Jupiter s...

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Mythology Study Guide Questions and
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chronus - answer chief ruler, father of Zeus

Ocean - answer encircled the earth

Atlas - answer bore the world on his shoulders, Knew where the golden apples of the
Hesperides were located

Prometheus - answer savior of mankind

Zeus/Jupiter - answer supreme ruler, god of the sky, rain, and clouds, God who sent
a lying dream to the Greek leader to make him attack Troy prematurely

Hera/Juno - answer Queen of the gods, protector of marriage, Sent a fit of madness
that caused a hero to kill his own wife and children, The goddess whose bribe was Lord
of Europe and Asia, determined that the war would not end until Troy was destroyed

Poseidon/Neptune - answer god of the seas, wields a trident, The god who sent
serpents to crush the priest and his sons, The god who joined the godess in her
revenge

Hades/Pluto - answer god of the underworld and wealth, The place where Odysseus
must go to consult with the prophet Teiresias

Athena/Minerva - answer goddess of wisdom, protector of civilized life, The goddess
whose bribe was victory for Troy and ruin for Greece, The goddess who rejected the gift
of a robe and denied the Trojans prayer to spare the city, the goddess whose image
was stolen from Troy by the Greeks, The goddess who became angry with the Greeks
for their sacrilegious actions at the end of the war, who remembers her past admiration
for Odysseus and pleads with the Olympian gods to allow him to return home, The
goddess who assumes various shapes in order to help Odysseus reach home

Apollo - answer god of light and truth, the healer, master musician, God who shot
arrows of sickness into the Greek camp until a captive maiden was returned,

Artemis/Diana - answer goddess of the hunt, wilderness, night, and moon, who
demanded a human sacrifice for a hare that was slain

Aphrodite/Venus - answer goddess of love and beauty, rose from the foam, Caused
a statue to come to life as a reward to a new kind of love, The goddess who was given

, the golden apple, The only one of the gods who helped the Trojans at the end when
Troy fell to the Greeks

Hermes/Mercury - answer messenger of the gods, Messenger of the gods sent by
Zeus to release Odysseus from his captivity on the sea nymph's island, Messenger of
the gods who gives Odysseus a herb that protects him from the witch

Ares/Mars - answer god of war, murder, and bloodshed

Hephaestus/Vulcan - answer Ugly and deformed god of fire, god who crafted new
armor for the greatest greek warrior

Hestia/Vesta - answer goddess of hearth and home

Eros/Cupid - answer god of love, often depicted as blindfolded

Cerberus - answer Dragon tailed dog that gaurds the underworld gate, Three headed
dog carried away from Hades to Mycenae and back

Dionysus/Bacchus - answer god of the vine, wine, and festivals, The only god whose
parents were not both divine, was captured by pirates, born of fire and nursed by rain, a
god of inspiration celebrated at a sacred spring festival where playes were performed

Pan - answer god of the sheperds and goatherds

The Muses - answer goddesses of the arts and history

The Furies - answer goddesses who punish evildoers

The Satyrs - answer Goat men who lived in the wild places

The Centaurs - answer Savage creatures, half horse/half man

The Gorgons - answer Dragon-like creatures who turned men to stone

The Sirens - answer had enchanting voices who lured sailors to their deaths, Singers
whose voices lure sailors to their death by making them forget everything else

The Fates - answer goddesses who spin and cut the thread of life

Maenad - answer one of a group of wild women who were cared for by the god of
wine

Pentheus - answer The king of Thebes who brought doom on himself for ignoring
when the gods spoke to him, died at the hands of his own mother and her sisters

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