Q 01/05

Whose charmed bridle allowed Bellerophon to capture and tame Pegasus?

A) Poseidon's

B) Hermes'

C) Apollo's

D) Athena's

Answer · why

D) Athena's

Bellerophon later overreached by trying to ride Pegasus up to Olympus and lost the gods' favour for it.

Q 02/05

Exposed on Mount Parthenion as a baby, Atalanta was nursed by which animal?

A) A she-bear

B) A wolf

C) A doe

D) A lioness

Answer · why

A) A she-bear

The bear was a symbol of Artemis, the goddess Atalanta went on to model herself after.

Q 03/05

According to Herodotus, Cadmus introduced what to the Greeks?

A) Minted silver coinage

B) Olive cultivation

C) The Phoenician alphabet

D) Bronze casting

Answer · why

C) The Phoenician alphabet

Cadmus was a Phoenician prince sent to find his abducted sister Europa, and he founded Thebes instead of going home.

Q 04/05

The acropolis of Thebes was originally named what, in honour of the city's founder?

A) Agenoria

B) Cadmeia

C) Boeotis

D) Harmonia

Answer · why

B) Cadmeia

Cadmus is grouped with Perseus and Bellerophon as the great monster-slayers before Heracles.

Q 05/05

Which astronomer named a moon of Jupiter after Zeus's lover Io in 1614?

A) Galileo Galilei

B) Johannes Kepler

C) Simon Marius

D) Tycho Brahe

Answer · why

C) Simon Marius

The Ionian Islands are also said to take their name from Io, not from the region of Ionia.