Quiz 18 - Mythology

1. _____ was punished in the Underworld with everlasting thirst and hunger. a. Tantalus 2. Receding water and fruit trees just out of reach are associated with _____. a. Tantalus 3. The legends of Mycenae are closely associated with the House of _____. a. Atreus 4. The wife of Menelaus was _____. a. Helen 5. Pelops came from Asia Minor as a suitor for the hand of _____ a. Hippodamia 6. _____ killed his son Pelops, boiled him, and served him to the gods a. Tantalus 7. The myths of Tantalus, Lycaon, and Thyestes all involve the taboo practice of cannibalism. a. True 8. The goddess _____ inadvertently ate part of Pelops' shoulder. a. Demeter 9. The southern part of the Greek mainland is called the _____ or "Pelops' Island." a. Peloponnese 10. In order to win the hand of Hippodamia, Pelops had to defeat her father Oenomaus in a _____ race. a. Chariot 11. The _____ of Hippodamia's unsuccessful suitors decorated her father's palace. a. Heads 12. After the Trojan War, Agamemnon returned home to Greece along with his slave mistress the Trojan princess ______. a. Cassandra 13. _____ bribed Myrtilus to remove the linchpins (cotter pins) from Oenomaus' chariot. a. Pelops 14. As he fell to his death _____ cursed Pelops and his descendants? a. Myrtilus 15. Thyestes had an adulterous relationship with the wife of his brother _____. a. Atreus 16. Atreus killed the children of his brother _____ and served them up at a banquet to their father. a. Thyestes 17. The father of Agamemnon and Menelaus was _____. a. Atreus 18. The brother of Iphigenia and Electra was _____.