Q1. Prometheus Was a Titan. Who Were the Titans? ______

Greek heroes

Prometheus

Q1. Prometheus was a titan. Who were the Titans? ______

Q2. What trick did Prometheus play on Zeus at the meal marking the "settling of accounts" between men and the gods? ______

Q3. Why did Zeus allow himself to be tricked? ______

Q4. How did Zeus punish mankind for this trick? ______

Q5. What did Prometheus do then? ______

Q6. How did Zeus punish him for this? ______

Q7. Who freed Heracles from this punishment? ______

Q8. What did Pandora carry in her jar? ______

Q9. The Ancient Greeks used the story of Pandora to explain… ______Heracles

Q1. Heracles was a divine hero, or demi-god. What does this mean? ______

Q2. What was his defining characteristic? ______

Q3. If someone in Ancient Greece shouted Hercle! or Mehercle!, what would they be doing? ______

Q4. What two things is he usually pictured with? ______

Q5. What happened when Hera sent two serpents to kill Heracles in his cot when he was a baby? ______

Q6. After killing his music tutor Linus with a lyre, he was sent to tend cattle on a mountain by his foster father Amphitryon. Here, according to a story known as, "The Choice of Heracles", he was visited by two nymphs - ______and ______- who offered him a choice between a ______life or a ______life: he chose ______.

Q7. What did Heracles do after Hera drove him into a fit of madness? ______

Q8. What was his punishment for this? ______

Q9. Complete the blanks for Heracles’ labours:

1. Slay the Nemean ______and bring back its hide. 2. Slay the 9-headed Lernaean ______. 3. Capture the Golden Stag of Artemis. 4. Capture the Erymanthian Boar. 5. Clean the Augean ______in a single day. 6. Slay the Stymphalian Birds. 7. Capture the Cretan ______. 8. Steal the Mares of Diomedes. 9. Obtain the Girdle of the ______warrior queen Hippolyte. 10. Obtain the Cattle of the Monster Geryon. 11. Steal the Apples of the Hesperides, which were strictly guarded by a 100-headed ______called Ladon. 12. Capture ______, the guardian dog of Hades, using no weapons and bring him back.

Q10. Heracles dies when his wife gave him a blood-soaked tunic. The blood was poisonous because it was the blood of the ______.

Perseus

Q1. Perseus was the son of ______and Danae, the ancestor of the Danaans. This race was also known as the Argives or the Achaens, and these were all terms for the ______in the Iliad.

Q2. Why did Acrisius shut his daughter Danae up in a bronze chamber underground? ______

Q3. Why did he throw the baby Perseus and his mother into a wooden chest in the sea instead of just killing them? ______

Q5. Who was Medusa? ______

Q6. What happened when anyone looked at Medusa? ______

Q6. Perseus was helped by three gods, ______, ______& ______.

Q7. He received five gifts in total from the gods and the spring nymphs. List these five gifts: ______Q8. The Graeae were three perpetually old women, who were the sisters of ______. They had only one ______and one ______tooth between them.

Q9. Explain how Perseus managed to cut off Medusa’s head. ______

Q10. Perseus claimed Andromeda in marriage when he ______

Q11. Perseus was able to fly in two different ways, depending on which myth you read. Name both ways: (a) ______(b) ______

Q1. Jason was educated by Chiron the ______, who was half- _____ and half-______.

Q2. Why did Pelias fear Jason? ______

Q3. How did Pelias try to get rid of Jason? ______

Q4. Why were there no men on the Island of Lemnos when the Argonauts arrived there? (You should mention Hera in your answer, what did she do?) ______

Q5. Why did Medea kill Jason’s wife-to-be? ______