Medusa Myth Exam 2026

Chased by Apollo; transformed by Gaia into a laurel tree to escape his advances

Giant who was the child of Gaia and Tartarus; trapped by Zeus under Mt. Etna

Punished by Zeus for giving fire to the humans by having his live pecked out daily

Had an affair with Zeus; mother of Dionysus; killed by Hera who tricked her into making Zeus reveal his true form

Zeus's first wife who helped him defeat Cronus; she is swallowed by Zeus when it was prophecized her son would be greater than Zeus himself; mother of Athena

Blind prophet of Apollo; famous for being a woman for seven years; forced to mediate fight between Zeus and Hera as to whether love/pleasure are felt more deeply by a man or by a woman (he decided woman, siding with Hera)

Hera hated him because he fought on the side of Troy during the Trojan War; she was also the one who set up his and Dido’s relationship, which ultimately ended in Dido’s suicide

Helps Hera to attack the forces of the Trojan hero Aeneas

The mother of Apollo and Artemis; cursed by Hera because of her affair with Zeus

Had an affair with Zeus; turned into a cow and cursed by Hera to be followed by a Mayfly for the rest of her life

Bans the worship of Dionysus in his kingdom and is beat to death by people in a frenzy created by Dionysus (including his mother and aunt

A pilot who is spared by Dionysus and is later turned into one of his priests

Mortal lover of Aphrodite; Zeus made her fall for him because she kept making the other gods fall for mortals; father of Aeneas with Aphrodite

Son of Aphrodite; minor god of love

Child of Aeneas/grand child of Aphrodite; Julius Caesar claims to descend from