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THE LESSER GODS OF OLYMPIANS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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.

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THE LESSER GODS OF OLYMPIANS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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  1. THE LESSER GODS OF OLYMPIANS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS By Jazzy Brunson and Allison Vang

  2. 1. HOW MANY OLYMPIANS ARE THERE? ANSWER: 12

  3. 2. Who was the most important Olympian? Answer: The God of Love

  4. 3.What is the God of Love’s name? Answer: Eros

  5. 4.What is Eros’s name in Latin? Answer: Cupid.

  6. 5.What is Eros to Hesiod? Answer: The Fairest of the deathless gods

  7. 6.What is Eros in the early stories? Answer: He is often a beautiful serious youth who gives good gifts to men.

  8. 7.Who is the philosopher who had Eros best summed up in the stories? Answer: Plato

  9. 8.Where does Eros make his home? Answer: In men’s hearts

  10. 9.What is Eros greatest glory? Answer: He cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him.

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

  12. 11.What was Eros to Aphrodite in later poets? Answer: Her son and almost invariably a mischievous, naughty boy, or worse

  13. 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.

  14. 13.What was Eros often represented as? Answer: Blindfolded.

  15. 14.Why was Eros represented as blindfolded? Answer: Because love is often blind.

  16. 15.Who is the avenger of slighted love? Answer: Anteros

  17. 16.Who opposes love? Answer: Himeros

  18. 17.Who is the God of the Wedding Feast? Answer: Hymen

  19. 18.Who is the Goddess of Youth? Answer: Hebe

  20. 19.Who are Hebe’s parents? Answer: Zeus and Hera.

  21. 20.Who is the Trojan prince? Answer: Ganymede

  22. 21.Who did Hebe marry? Answer: Hercules

  23. 22.Who is the Goddess of the Rainbow and a messenger to the gods? Answer: Iris.

  24. 23.Who were the two bands of lovely sisters? Answer: Muses and Graces

  25. 24.How many Graces are there? What are their names? Answer: 3; Aglaia (Splendor), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Good Cheer).

  26. 25.Who are the Graces daughters of? Answer: Zeus and Eurynome

  27. 26.How many Muses are there? Who are their parents? Answer: 9; Zeus and Mnemosyne, Memory

  28. 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.

  29. 28. Who was the Muse of History? Answer: Clio

  30. 29. Who was the Muse of astronomy? Answer: Urania

  31. 30. Who was the Muse of tragedy? Answer: Melpomene

  32. 31. Who was the Muse of comedy? Answer: Thalia

  33. 32. Who was the Muse of the dance? Answer: Terpischore

  34. 33. Who was the Muse of epic poetry? Answer: Calliope

  35. 34. Who was the Muse of love-poetry? Answer: Erato

  36. 35. Who was the Muse of songs to the gods? Answer: Polyhymnia

  37. 36. Who was the Muse of lyric poetry? Answer: Euterpe

  38. 37. Where did Hesiod live near? Answer: Helicon

  39. 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

  40. 39. What were the 2 companions of the Muses? Answer: Apollo and the Graces

  41. 40. Who is Apollo? Answer: Apollo is the God of Truth.

  42. 41. Who calls the lyre theirs and as well as Apollo’s? Answer: Pindar

  43. Answer: lyre, step, dancer’s, listens, owned, Apollo, wreathed 42. “The golden ____ to which the ____, the ____ step, ___, ____ alike by ____ and the violet-____ Muses.”

  44. 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.

  45. 44. Did they (Demis and Dike) ever become real personalities? Answer: No

  46. 45. What was Nemesis other translated names? Answer: Righteous Anger and Aidos

  47. 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.

  48. 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

  49. 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.

  50. The End!!!!!

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