SO YOU KNOW WHO WAS WHO IN CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY?....?

1:- Who was the father of Romulus and Remus?
2:- Which son of Zeus functioned as messenger and herald of the Gods?
3:- W hat remained at the bottom of Pandora's box ?
4:- Who killed Medusa?
5:- Which king and queen of Thebes were granted their wish to become serpents throughout eternity?
6:- Who were Achilles' parents?
7:- Who was Cupid's earthly love?
8:- Who was Calliope's musical son ?
9:- Who killed his grandfather with a quoit at the Larrisan Games?
10:-Who was Hercules' last mortal wife?
11:-Who was the wife of Ulysses?
12:-Who was Jason's bride?
13:-Who was Niobe's father?
14:-Who was Niobe's husband?
15:-Who was Apollo's mother?
16:-Who was the father of Icarus?
17:-Which Argonaut was killed by a boar near Mariandynus, on the Black Sea?
18:-Who was the wife of Paris, before he was smitten by Helen?
19:-Which giant, made of Brass, guarded Crete?
20:-Who was, briefly, the wife of Orpheus?
21:-Which king of Crete hired Daedalus to construct the Labyrinth?
22:-What was the purpose of the Labyrinth? 23:-Who was the husband of Leda ?
24:-Who married Jocasta after solving the riddle of the Sphinx?
25: What was unusual(and illegal) about that marriage?) 26:-What was the home city of Hero, beloved of Leander?
27:-Who is describes as `The Dioscuri'?
28:-Who was the brother whom Eotocles banished from Thebes?
29:-Who led the retaliatory army from Argos against Thebes?
30:-Which king's daughter took a shipwrecked Ulysses home to her father's court? 31:-Who allowed herself to be diverted by three golden apples?
32:-Whose ship had a beam hewn from the speaking oaks of Dodona?
33:-Which daughter of Oceanus wept tears of amber?
34:-Who was the wife of Posiedon, and still accompanies him on our `Crossing the line' rituals?
35:-Who was the eldest son of Oceanus, and became guardian of the largest Greek River?
36:-How many heads had the hydra?
37:- How did the giant, Sceiron meet his end ?
38:- Name Ulysses' old nurse, now head of Penelope's hosehold, who finally recognized the returning hero
39:- Over which rich island did Polycrates rule?
40:- For what cruel deed did Clytemnestra never forgive her husband, Agamemnon?
41:- Which king ordered his son's betrothed to be walled up in a cave?
42:- Which giant used to trim or stretch his guests to fit his guestbed?
43:- What were the Stymphalides, encountered by the Argonauts?
44:- What was the job of the two-headed dog, Orthrus?
45:- Oedipus unwittingly wed his own mother...but what was HER name?
46:- In Greek mythology, which characters have women's faces and bodies abut the wings and claws of birds ?

THE ANSWERS

1:- Mars
2:- Hermes
3:- Hope
4:- Perseus
5:- Cadmus and Harmonia
6:- Peleus, a mortal, and the Goddess, Thetis.
7:- Psyche.
8:- Orpheus.
9:- Perseus.
10:-Detinara, daughter of King Oineus Of Calydon
11:-Penelope.
12:-Medea.
13:-Tantalus.
14:-Amphion.
15:-Leto
16:-Daedalus.
18:-Oenone.
19:-Talus.
20:-Euridice, but she was bitten, fatally, by a snake on her wedding night
21:-King Minos.
22:-To confine the Minotaur.
23:-Tyndareus.
24:-Oedipus.
25:-She was his mother!!
26:-Sestos
27:-Castor and Pollux, twin sons of Zeus
28:-Polyneices
29:-Adrostus
30:-Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians
31:-Arion
32:-Atalanta
33:-Electra
34:-Amphitrite
35:-Achelous
36:-He had 9 heads
37:-Theseus hurled him over a cliff into the sea, where he was changed into a rock
38:-Eurycleia
39:-Samos
40:-He sacrificed his daughter , Iphigenia, to the Goddess, Artemis
41:-Creon of Thebes..his son, Haemon, was betrothed to Antigone
42:-Procrustes-sometimes called The Stretcher
43:-Fierce birds, able to use their brazen feathers as dart-like weapons
44:-He guarded the herd of red cattle belonging to the giant, Geryon, on the island of Erythia
45:-Jocasta
46:-The Harpies

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