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MYTHOLOGY

What goddess was the muse of astronomy? 1284.

Who were the vestal virgins and how long were they held in service?

2017.

What god ruled the winds, seasons and agriculture? 1906. Who was Psyche? 1556. What are the Pleiades? 1504. When was the festival of Flora held? 683. What goddess was supposed to have power of restoring the aged to

youth? 857. What goddess when she died was believed to have passed into the

star Sirius? 945. What Roman god was it whose temple was open in time of war and

closed in time of peace? 960.

What god is the type of manly strength and manly endurance? 867. Whose name was changed to Aquarius, and what does it mean? 736. What river did the Hindoos believe to bathe in her waters will wash

away sin; to die and be buried on her banks secures free entry

to eternal bliss? 736.

What nymphs in Greek myth are goddesses of trees and woods? 555. What god made wings for himself and son to escape from imprisonment? 495.

Who was Quirinus? 1631. What god cut up his brother's body in pieces and scattered them far

and wide? 945.

How did Deucalion and Pyrrha repeople the world after the flood? 524. How did Pythia always appear and what was her office? 518. What goddess was the daughter of Hyperion? 140. What god had a banquet for his people every day? 2035. What goddess was the wife of Saturn? 1682. Who was called the god of wine? 153. What heroine was called the swiftest of mortals? 129. For what crime was Atlas condemned by Zeus to a very great burden? 133.

What is said of Ixion? 951.

Who was called the goddess of the morning? 140. Who was called the daughter of Atlas? 311. What famous god was the son of Venus? 487. Who was the go'ddess of the moon, and of the flocks and the chase?

527.

Whom did Pindar consider A Sister of the Fates? 700. What goddess did the Romans claim? 700.

Who was Helen of Troy, and who made her famous by verse? 858. Who was the goddess of womanhood? 983. What god was said to be the father of the Roman race? 1176. What god was called the god of dreams and son of sleep? 1264. Who was the Roman god of the sea? 1320.

Whose music rocked monsters to sleep and stopped falling cliffs? 1395. What was a peri? 1452.

What god had only one eye in the center of his forehead? 1522. What is a sphinx? 1797. What god was stricken with a fearful thirst and had all things

around him to quench thirst, but could not get at them? 1870. What god devoured all his children at their birth except the last one?

1682.

Who was the Roman goddess of fruits and flowers? 1524. What nymph did Zeus employ to keep the attention of his wife Hera

by talking to her? 579. Who was the goddess Circe? 400. Who was Juggernaut? 981.

What is said in Greek mythology about the flood and the ark? 524. Who was called the goddess mother, the mistress of heaven, the eye

of the sun and the queen of the gods? 945. What is the symbol of the lotus? 1116.

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