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. Answer: The Fairest of the deathless gods
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. Answer: heart, cruel, hands, arrows, high, fire.
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. Answer: false, true, know, utter, things
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. Answer: Apollo is the God of Truth.
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. 42. “The golden ____ to which the ____, the ____ step, ___, ____ alike by ____ and the violet-____ Muses.”
Answer: lyre, step, dancer’s, listens, owned, Apollo, wreathed

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