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Mythology: Chapters 7+8
Chapter 7+8 quiz 14/15
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9th Grade
11/17/2008

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Term

1.)Who was Phrixus's Father and Mother?

2.)Why did his step mom want to kill him?

Definition

1.)Athamas + Nephele

2.)Because she wanted her son to be the heir to the throne.

Term
Why was Phrixus offered up as a sacrifice?
Definition
Because his mom had made the land dry so there was no harvest and the king's oracle told him to offer the boy up as a sacrifice.
Term

1.)What saved Phrixus and Helle(his sister)?

2.)Which God did this?

Definition

1.)A Golden Ram

2.)Hermes

Term
Did Helle survive on the Ram?
Definition
No, she fell off into a straight that was named after her.
Term

1.)Where did the Ram drop Phrixus off?

2.)What were the people called?

3.)What did he do with the Golden Fleece?

Definition

1.)Colchis

2.)Colchians

3.)Gave it to King AEtes

Term
Who dethroned Phrixus' uncle?
Definition
His cousin Pelias
Term
What did Pelias' oracle tell him?
Definition
That he would be dethroned by a man wearing one sandle.
Term

1.)What was the name of the man with the one sandle?

2.)What was his relationship with Phrixus?

Definition

1.)Jason

2.)Jason was Phrixus' nephew and Pelias' cousin

Term
T/F. Jason is Pelias' cousin. Jason should be the rightful ruler of the throne.
Definition
True
Term
Why did Pelias give Jason the Golden Fleece Quest?
Definition
In order to proove himself worthy of acquiring the throne.
Term
Which god was helping Jason and his group on their quest?
Definition
Hera
Term

1.)What was Jason's group called?

2.)What was their ship called?

Definition

1.)The Argonauts

2.)Argo

Term
The women that lived on Lemnos.. What happened to all the men?
Definition
The women killed the men on the island for the most part.
Term
T/F. All of the men on Lemnos were killed... not a single one survived.
Definition
False, the leader(Hypsipyle) spared her father
Term
What did the people of Lemnos give the Argonauts?
Definition
Food and wine
Term
Why did Hercules leave the group?
Definition
A friend of his named Hylas was captured by a water nymph, so Hercules went after him.
Term
What was a flying creature with hooked beaks and claws called?
Definition
Harpie
Term
Why did Zeus have the Harpies almost starve Phineus to death?
Definition
Because Phineus was given the ability to predict the future which Zeus disliked.
Term
T/F. The sons of Boreas killed the harpies.
Definition
False, the Harpies were never killed.
Term
What happens every time Phineus has to eat?
Definition
Harpies get his food.
Term
When the sons of Boreas were attacking the Harpies, who stepped in the sons' way? Why?
Definition
Iris because Zeus didn't want the Harpies to die, and she swore on the river Styx that the Harpies wouldn't bug them ever again.
Term
In order to see if getting through the Clashing Rocks was possible, what animal had to enter first?
Definition
a dove
Term
T/F. The Dove made it through the Clashing Rocks.
Definition
True
Term
The country in which the Golden Fleece is in is called _______.
Definition
Colchis
Term
Which goddess did Hera ask for Help on Jason's journey?
Definition
Aphrodite
Term
What did Aphrodite tell Cupid to do in order to help Jason?
Definition
She told him to strike an arrow into the Colchians King's daughter Medea making her fall in love with Jason.
Term
T/F. Medea knew how to work with special dark magic.
Definition
True
Term
What did Hera do to help the Argonauts once they got to Colchis?
Definition
She covered them in a mist
Term
Why didn't King AEetes kill Jason and crew?
Definition
Because they dined with him.
Term
What was Jason's task in order to get the Golden Fleece from the king?
Definition

1.)Yoke two bulls and plow a field with them.

2.)Dragon Teeth must be cast in furrows.(Men spring up out of the ground after this)

3.)Cut down all the men

Term
Who connected Jason with Medea?
Definition
One of the King's grandsons.
Term
What did the ointment that Medea gave to Jason do?
Definition
Made him and his weapons practically invincible for one day.
Term
What did Hera sprinkle on Jason as he was leaving the ship to see Medea?
Definition
radiant grace.
Term
Medea told Jason how to defeat the dragon-teeth men. How does he defeat them?
Definition
By throwing a stone near or in their sight.
Term
T/F. Jason was defeated by the dragon-teeth men and never got the golden fleece.
Definition
False, he did both..... duh lol
Term
When Hera made Medea go with Jason, how did Jason and Medea get the Golden Fleece?
Definition
Medea had to sooth the serpent guarding it with her magic, and Jason could then take the fleece. They then bothed fled in their ship, the Argo.
Term
Who was Apsyrtus?
Definition
Medea's brother.
Term
Explain how Apsyrtus(Medea's brother) died. 2 stories in which he died.
Definition

1.)Medea told him that she wanted to meet him in a certain spot. When he arrived, Jason killed him with his sword.

2.)Medea let him aboard the Argo, and when the right time came, she cut him up in pieces and threw them in the sea so the King would stop.

Term
What guided the Argonauts to safety at Scylla?
Definition
sea nymphs
Term
Who killed Talus, the last man of the ancient bronze race?
Definition
Medea
Term
By the time Jason arrived back home, what happened to his parents?
Definition

Father killed himself because Pelias told him to.

Mother died of grief.

Term
How did Medea kill Pelius?
Definition
She showed his kids that she could make a lamb younger by cutting it up and saying a spell. So she put Pelias asleep, and the kids cut him up and put him in the pot, but then Medea didn't say a spell... so the kids were the murderers.
Term
T/F. Jason betrayed Medea by marrying the daughter of the King of Corinth.
Definition
True
Term
What did Jason say after Medea said that she saved him?
Definition
That Aphrodite saved him instead.
Term
Medea killed who after Jason was with a new wife?
Definition

1.)The wife

2.)2 sons

Term
Why did Phaethon go to Apollo's palace?
Definition
To find out if Apollo was his real father
Term
T/F. Apollo was Phaethon's father.
Definition
True
Term
Apollo offered his son any request. What did Phaethon choose?
Definition
To ride his dad's chariot across the sky.
Term
T/F. Zeus and Helios were the only gods besides Apollo that could ride his chariot.
Definition
False, only Apollo could ride it. No one else.
Term
What really got out of control on the chariot... in other words, what did Phaethon not control?
Definition
The horses
Term
Why didn't the horses listen to Phaethon?
Definition
Because they realized he was weaker than Apollo, and that he was not their master.
Term
Since Earth and Olympus was being burned, what happened next?
Definition
Jove(which I am assuming is Zeus) struck the chariot and its driver with a thunderbolt.
Term
Ida and Helicon were the first _________ to burn.
Definition
Mountains
Term

1.)What river did Phaethon land in?

2.)What was special about the river?

Definition

1.)Eridanus

2.)No mortal could see it or find it

 

 

*His sister Helidades came and mourned for Phaethon

Term
Glaucus was the son of ________. The father had to do what in Hades?
Definition

1.)Sisyphus

2.)Roll a stone down hill

Term

1.)Why didn't the gods like Glaucus?

2.)What happened to him?

Definition

1.)He fed human flesh to his horses

2.)Horses ate him

Term
Bellerophon was most likely the son of ________ but had a small chance of being the son of _______.
Definition

1.)Poseidon

2.)Glaucis

Term
What did Bellerophon want?
Definition
To have Pegasus
Term
Who advised Bellerophon to go to Athena's temple and sleep there?
Definition
One of his oracles named Polyidus(you don't have to know the name most likely)
Term

1.)What did Athena give Bellerophon?

2.)What did it do?

Definition

1.)A bridle all of gold

2.)Made Bellerophon master Pegasus

Term
What did Bellerophon do by accident?
Definition
He killed his brother.
Term
Anteia, the wife of _______, fell in love with ___________.
Definition

1.)Proetus

2.)Bellerophon

Term
What did Anteia tell Proetus?
Definition
That Bellerophon wronged her.
Term
Why didn't Proetus kill Bellerophon?
Definition
Because there was a rule by Zeus to never kill anyone with a Host to Guest relationship. (Unless you asked them to go onto a quest.)
Term
1.)Why did Bellerophon easily defeat the Chimera? 2.)Who gave him this quest?
Definition

1.)He had Pegasus with him, so he could stay at a distance and pelt it with arrows.

2.)Proetus

Term
What was the chimera?
Definition
Serpent in front,goat in middle, Serpent in back
Term
T/F. After defeating the Amazon people and the Solymi people, Proetus became Bellerophon's friend.
Definition
True
Term

1.)What led to Pegasus "ditching" Bellerophon?

2.)What became of Bellerophon?

3.)What became of Pegasus?

Definition

1.)Because Bellerophon wanted to fly to Olympus.

2.)He wandered the Earth til he died.

3.)Found shelter in Olympus in a stable; he handed Zeus his thunder and lightning when told to.

Term
Otus and Ephialtes were ______.
Definition
Twin Giants
Term
Otus and Ephialtes looked human and were big and there father was 100% sure ________.
Definition
Poseidon
Term
Which god did Otus and Ephialtes imprison?
Definition
Ares
Term
Otus and Ephialtes threatened the Gods by doing what? Who was about to kill them? Who saved them?
Definition

1.)By putting Mount Pelion and Ossa on top of eachother to scale heven

2.)Zeus

3.)Poseidon

Term

Otus liked ____.

Ephialtes liked_______.

Definition

1.)Hera

2.)Artemis

Term
How did Artemis "kill" Otus and Ephialtes?
Definition
They followed her into a forest; she transformed into a hind; both brothers threw a spear at it; they were on opposite sides of her; she dissapeared making the spears it the brothers.
Term
Daedalus built the ____ that the ________ was in.
Definition

1.)Maze

2.)Minotaur

Term
T/F. King Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son in the maze.
Definition
True
Term

1.)How did Daedalus and his son get out of the maze?

2.)What happened to his son when they got out?

 

Definition

1.)They flew out of there.

2.)His son flew too high and drowned.

 

Term

1.)How did Minos try to find Daedalus?

2.)What happened when Minos found him?

Definition

1.)He told some servant to watch and wait for a man to come who could pass a thread through a shell.

2.)The King of Sicily wouldn't give Daedalus up, and slaid Minos.

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