Q 01/05

Medusa is generally described as a woman with what in place of hair?

A) Writhing eels

B) Burning flames

C) Living snakes

D) Iron thorns

Answer · why

C) Living snakes

Living snakes. Early Greek artists made her uglier still, with boar's tusks, a lolling tongue, wings and sometimes a beard; the beautiful Medusa of la...

Q 02/05

Which healer was said to raise the dead with blood drawn from the right side of Medusa's body?

A) Chiron

B) Asclepius

C) Machaon

D) Apollo

Answer · why

B) Asclepius

Asclepius. Athena gave him blood from both sides of the body: the left side's killed, the right side's healed, and he revived so many of the dead that...

Q 03/05

What were the names of Medusa's two immortal sisters?

A) Deino and Enyo

B) Stheno and Euryale

C) Scylla and Charybdis

D) Clotho and Lachesis

Answer · why

B) Stheno and Euryale

Stheno and Euryale. Because they could not die, the hero was sent for Medusa's head alone; the two survivors gave chase but never caught him.

Q 04/05

Medusa and her sisters were usually said to be daughters of which sea-god and his sister?

A) Phorcys and Ceto

B) Pontus and Gaia

C) Oceanus and Tethys

D) Nereus and Doris

Answer · why

A) Phorcys and Ceto

Phorcys and Ceto. The same pair were parents of the Graeae, so in the usual telling the grey sisters Perseus forced to help him hunt Medusa were givin...

Q 05/05

What does the name Medusa literally mean in Ancient Greek?

A) Guardian

B) Destroyer

C) Temptress

D) Outcast

Answer · why

A) Guardian

Guardian. It suits what the Greeks did with her face: they put it on temples, coins and armour as a charm to turn evil away.