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Fill in the Blanks


This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1
1
Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 The beautiful young man ______ was born from the incestuous union of Cinyras and Myrrha.
 
Adonis
Hermaphroditus
Priapus
Eros
End of Question 1


Question 2
2
Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, is forever virgin, but she had her suitors. They were ______ and ______.
 
Hermes, Poseidon
Zeus, Poseidon
Poseidon, Apollo
Hades, Hephaestus
Apollo, Hermes
End of Question 2


Question 3
3
Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 ______ had the power to walk on water.
 
Actaeon
Anchises
Orion
Ixion
End of Question 3


Question 4
4
Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 An important cult of Artemis in Asia Minor is in the city of ______.
 
Paphos
Miletus
Cnossus
Ephesus
End of Question 4


Question 5
5
Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 ______ is the nymph who abducted Hermaphroditus, eventually getting her wish to be fused into one body with him.
 
Salmacis
Arachnê
Sappho
Pygmalion
End of Question 5


Question 6
6
Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 The Phrygian Cybelê is similar in many ways to ______.
 
Athena
Hera
Artemis
Hestia
End of Question 6


Question 7
7
Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 To show that Athena is the goddess of women's work, such as weaving and cleaning, the book cites the example of ______ from the Odyssey, whom she encourages to do the family wash.
 
Salmacis
Arachnê
Sappho
Nausicaa
End of Question 7


Question 8
8
Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 Complete this line from one of the Homeric hymns: "Sing me, O Muse, the story of ______ the golden, the Cyprian."
 
Aphrodite
Athena
Hera
Artemis
End of Question 8


Question 9
9
Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 Complete this sentence: "When a woman died suddenly without explanation, she was said to be 'struck by the arrows of ______.'"
 
Eros
Apollo
Zeus
Artemis
End of Question 9


Question 10
10
Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 The goddess ______ is often called glaukôpis.
 
Artemis
Aphrodite
Hera
Athena
End of Question 10






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