Certamen Questions Mythology
What was Hercules First Labor?
Nemion Lion
Who was the goddess of Victory?
Nike
Who was the Roman god of wine?
Bacchus
What Greek hero killed Hetor?
Achilles
What Trojan prince escaped the ashes of trow and founded Roman Civilization?
Aeneas
Who was the commander-in-chief of Greek forces at Troy?
Agamemnon
Who were the Arridae?
Agememnon and Menelaus
What were the food and drink of the Gods?
Ambrosia and Nectar
What daughter of Cassiopeia did Persus marry?
Andromedia
What daughter of Minos helped Thesus kill the Minataur?
Ariadne
To what diety was parthanon dedicated?
Athena
What diety was born from Zeus's head?
Athena
What Titan holds the world on his sholders?
Atlas
Who was the hero who rode Pegasus to kill the Chemira?
Bellerophon
What was Hercules last labor?
Bringing Cerubus up from the underworld
Who was the muse of epic poetry?
Calliope
Whose Prophesies were never believed?
Cassandra's
What creature was half horse half man?
Centaur
What goddess's symbol is the cornocopia?
Ceres
Who was the ferryman of the Styx?
Charon
What Centaur tutored heroes?
Chiron
NAme the three fates?
Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos
Who became a laurel tree to escape the advances of Apollo?
Daphne
Whose face is said to have launched 1000 ships
Helen's
What god carried a caduceus?
Hermes
Who was the goddess of the rainbow?
Iris
What hero went on a quest for the golden fleece?
Jason
What diety was the father of Rolomus?
Mars
What is the Roman name for Athena?
Minerva
What king turned everything he touched to gold?
Minos
What great hero was the son of Laertes and Anticlea?
Odysseus
What mythological figure solved the riddle of the Sphinx?
Oedipus
What Greek minstril went to the underworld to win back his wife Eurydice?
Orpheus
Who opened Pandora's Box?
Pandora
What Trojan Prince abused Helen?
Paris
Who was Odysseus' loyal wife?
Penelope
Who slew Medusa?
Perseus
Who were the king and queen of Troy?
Priam and Hecuba
Who stole fire from heaven to give to human?
Prometheus
What daughter of Ceres did pluto abduct to be his wife?
Prosperina
What creature is half goat and half man
Satyr
By what river dis the gods swear by?
Styx
Where in the underworld were heroes punished?
Tartarus
Whose entrapment did Odysseus avoid when he put wax in the ears of his men?
The Sirens
Allecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone make up what group?
The furies
Who slew the Minataur?
Thesus
After whose father was the Agean Sea named?
Thesus'
Who was the Roman Goddess of the Hearth?
Vesta
Who were the origional six Olypians?
Zeus, Hades, Posiden, Hestia, Demete, Hera
What were the shades of the Underworld called?
manes
