THE LESSER GODS OF OLYMPIANS QUESTIONS &

ANSWERS

By Jazzy Brunson and Allison Vang

1. HOW MANY OLYMPIANS ARE THERE?

ANSWER:

12

2. Who was the most important Olympian?

Answer: The God of Love

3.What is the God of Love’s name?

Answer: Eros

4.What is Eros’s name in Latin?

Answer: Cupid.

5.What is Eros to Hesiod?

Answer: The Fairest of the

deathless gods

6.What is Eros in the early stories?

Answer: He is often a beautiful serious youth who gives good gifts to men.

7.Who is the philosopher who had Eros best summed up in the stories?

Answer: Plato

8.Where does Eros make his home?

Answer: In men’s hearts

9.What is Eros greatest glory?

Answer: He cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him.

10.What was Eros to Aphrodite in the early accounts?Answer: Her occasional companion.

11.What was Eros to Aphrodite in later poets?

Answer: Her son and almost invariably a mischievous, naughty boy, or worse

12.Evil is his _____, but honey-sweet his tongue. No truth in him, the rogue. He is _____ in his play. Small are his _____, yet his ______ fly far as death. Tiny his shaft, but it carries heaven ____. Touch not his treacherous gifts, they are dipped in ____.

Answer: heart, cruel, hands, arrows, high, fire.

13.What was Eros often represented as?

Answer: Blindfolded.

14.Why was Eros represented as blindfolded?

Answer: Because love is often blind.

15.Who is the avenger of slighted love?

Answer: Anteros

16.Who opposes love?

Answer: Himeros

17.Who is the God of the Wedding Feast?

Answer: Hymen

18.Who is the Goddess of Youth?

Answer: Hebe

19.Who are Hebe’s parents?

Answer: Zeus and Hera.

20.Who is the Trojan prince?

Answer: Ganymede

21.Who did Hebe marry?

Answer: Hercules

22.Who is the Goddess of the Rainbow and a messenger to the gods?

Answer: Iris.

23.Who were the two bands of lovely sisters?

Answer: Muses and Graces

24.How many Graces are there? What are their names?

Answer: 3; Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Good Cheer).

25.Who are the Graces daughters of?

Answer: Zeus and Eurynome

26.How many Muses are there? Who are their parents?

Answer: 9; Zeus and Mnemosyne, Memory

27. When one of the servant of the Muses sings what happens to a man who has sorrow and grief in his soul?

Answer: At once he forgets his dark thoughts and remembers not his troubles.

28. Who was the Muse of History?

Answer: Clio

29. Who was the Muse of astronomy?

Answer: Urania

30. Who was the Muse of tragedy?

Answer: Melpomene

31. Who was the Muse of comedy?

Answer: Thalia

32. Who was the Muse of the dance?

Answer: Terpischore

33. Who was the Muse of epic poetry?

Answer: Calliope

34. Who was the Muse of love-poetry?

Answer: Erato

35. Who was the Muse of songs to the gods?

Answer: Polyhymnia

36. Who was the Muse of lyric poetry?

Answer: Euterpe

37. Where did Hesiod live near?

Answer: Helicon

38. One day the Nine appeared to him and told him, “We know how to speak _______ things that seem ______, but we ______, when we will, to ____ true _____.

Answer: false, true, know, utter, things

39. What were the 2 companions of the Muses?

Answer: Apollo and the Graces

40. Who is Apollo?

Answer: Apollo is the God of Truth.

41. Who calls the lyre theirs and as well as Apollo’s?

Answer: Pindar

42. “The golden ____ to which the ____, the ____ step, ___, ____ alike by ____ and the violet-____ Muses.”

Answer: lyre, step, dancer’s, listens, owned, Apollo, wreathed

43. When the idea of Zeus became loftier who were the two of the august forms that sat beside him in Olympus? What did the names mean?

Answer: Themis means the Right or Divine Justice and Dike which means Human Justice.

44. Did they (Demis and Dike) ever become real personalities?

Answer: No

45. What was Nemesis other translated names?

Answer: Righteous Anger and Aidos

46. What does Nemesis mean?

Answer: Nemesis means reverence and the shame that holds men back from wrongdoing, but it also means the feeling a prosperous man should have in the presence of the unfortunate – not compassion, but a sense that the difference between him and those poor wretches is not deserved.

47. Hesiod says that only when men have finally become ____ wicked will ____ and ____, their ____ faces veiled in ____ raiment, leave the wide-____ earth and depart to the company of the ___.

Answer: completely, Nemesis, Aidos, beautiful, white, wayed, immortals

48. From time to time a few mortals were translated to Olympus, and what happened to them?

Answer: Once they had been brought to heaven they vanished from literature.

The End!!!!!