myth and religion

• Roman name for Zeus


  Jupiter
• Roman name for Poseidon


  Neptune
• Roman name for Hades


  Pluto
• Roman name for Hera


  Juno
• Roman name for Athena


  Minerva
• Roman name for Demeter


  Ceres
• Roman name for Hestia


  Vesta
• Roman name for Hephaistos


  Vulcan
• Roman name for Aphrodite


  Venus
• Artemis


  Diana
• Roman name for Apollo

  Apollo
• Roman name for Hermes


  Mercury
• Roman name for Ares


  Mars
• Roman name for Dionysus

  Bacchus
• How is dionysus usually depicted?

  with a thyrsus, wines and an animal skin, also with maenads and satyrs
• how is ares usually depicted?

  depicted wearing his armour
• how is hermes usually depicted?


  depicted with a travellers cap, caduceus, and winged sandals
• how is apollo depicted?


  depicted with his bow and arrow, lyre, and in eternal youth
• how is artemis depicted?

  depicted with a bow and arrow, and with a wild animal
• how is aphrodite depicted?


  depicted rising from a sea shell, naked, with dolphins
• how is hephaistos depicted?


  depicted with a hammer or an anvil
• how is hestia depicted?

  rarely depicted, veiled head
• how is demeter depicted?


  depicted wearing a diadem, holding a bundle of wheat, grain or flowers, with a cornucopia
• how is athena depicted?


  depicted with an owl, helmet, spear, aegis (breastplate with gorgon on) and Nike
• how is hera depicted?


  depicted wearing a diadem
• how is hades depicted?


  depicted with a cornucopia, with persephone
• how is poseidon depicted?

  depicted with a trident as a bearded man
• how is zeus depicted?

  depicted as a bearded man holding a lightning bolt, holding an eagle, on a throne
• who were hercules' parents?


  Alcmene and Zeus
• how did Zeus sleep with Alcmene?


  he disguised himself as Amphitryon, Alcmene's husband, whilst he was gone on a campaign with Creon - king of thebes
• what was Amphitryon's reaction to Zeus sleeping with Alcmene?


  initially fuming - relieved after he found out it was Zeus.
• what did Amphitryon do on his return?

  slept with alcmene
• how did Amphitryon find out about Zeus and Alcmene?

  From a seer
• What did Hera make zeus promise after he found out that Alcmene was pregnant with his child?

  The first born of the house of Perseus would rule.
• What did Hera do to try and prevent Hercules from ruling?


  She asked her daughter to prolong Alcmene's labour, hoping that it would kill both Hercules and Alcmene. - Eurystheus became king of Mycenae, and Iphicles and Hercules had no official power
• What did Alcmene do with Hercules after she suffered Hera's wrath?

  she abandoned hercules in the woods
• what did athena do when she found hercules, and where did she find him?


  She found him in the woods, and she took him to Mount Olympus in hope that he would be accepted there, but Hera ordered that he be returned to Alcmene to raise him
• Why did hercules have to do the 12 labours?


  He was married to Creon's daughter - Megara, but then he was infected by Madness, and killed his wife and children in insanity. - he then visited the Oracle at Delphi - who advised him that he should serve King Eurystheus for 12 years
• who controlled the Oracle at Delphi when Hercules went to him for advice?

  Hera
• Which metope is this?

  the apples of hesperides