Ancient Greek Mythos Quiz (Semi-Difficult)

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Hint	Answer
The monstrous offspring of Gaea and Tartarus that Zeus had to battle after the Titanomachy	Typhoeus
In 'The Iliad,' Hera convinces an initially reluctant _______ by bribing him with a wife to lull Zeus to sleep	Hypnos
She was the 'cleverness' that Zeus swallowed to prevent a prophecy	Metis
His castrated genitalia gave birth to Aphrodite	Uranus
Was able to predict the fall of Troy and the death of Agamemnon but nothing came of her predictions	Cassandra
Was so revolted by his stepmother's romantic affection for him. She ended up framing him for rape and getting him killed by Poseidon	Hippolytus
The primordial emptiness that was the very beginning, creating Nyx and Erebus	Chaos
Tried to seduce Hera while under Zeus's pardon, ended up bound to a fiery wheel in Tartarus by Zeus as punishment	Ixion
Visited Hesiod with the grace of Zeus, helping him to write 'Theogony'	Muses
EASY: He is the creator of mortals	Prometheus

Hint	Answer
The author of 'Works and Days'	Hesiod
The author of 'The Odyssey'	Homer
A paradise to fallen heroes / A place for the blessed dead	Elysium Fields
The river of forgetfulness	The Lethe
The river of unbreakable oath (pst...its in the underworld)	The Styx
The war in which Zeus and the Olympians fought the Giants	Gigantomachy
Prometheus means 'foresight,' while his brother, ______'s, name means 'afterthought'	Epimetheus
The offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite that is both male and female	Hermaphroditus
Zeus's male cupbearer that he had kidnapped, in some versions, as an eagle	Ganymede
Her six sons were killed by Apollo and her six daughters were killed by Artemis, she then turned into stone	Niobe
Was one of Artemis's companions that got turned into a she-bear by either Zeus, Hera, or Artemis in different versions of the tale	Callisto
Identified as the mother of Aphrodite in 'The Iliad' but is only known as the daughter of Oceanus in 'Theogony'	Dione

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