Name that god!

\'sup y\'all, I\'m bored and have Greek/Roman Mythology on my brain.  So here\'s a pop quiz for everyone interested (add in your own quiz if you want!):

QUIZ #1:

1) Which god had his liver continuosly eaten by an eagle?

2) Which Nymph was turned into a cow?

3) Which god is known as the "earth-shaker" ?

4) Which goddess was born from Zeus\'s head?

5) Which goddess is referred to as Cow-eyed?

Extra credit: Who was the first Werewolf?

I have a quiz

1) What the hell are you talking about?
2) why would zeus deliver a child , and why would this child come from his head?
3) Well most likeley all the gods had sex wit animals and thats why these cow eyed , eagle , werewolf children exist!

Here you go Deadly Hamster:

First, I was bored; second, Zeus thought that if the child was all his, she would be more loyal to him (and she was); Third, I\'m pretty sure that the gods only mated with other gods and humans, not animals, although they did change people into animals and disguised themselves as animals from time to time.  I\'ll give the answers to the quiz when some people try to answer, and shed some more light on your querstions.

light on your querstions.

Did you just call my questions queer?

oops!  my bad!  sorry \'bout that.

ok caus if you took offense to my questions i was just joking

[nO-One]

I have no idea,must brush up on my history.

*nO-One goes to watch Disney\'s Hercules* j/k

1) Prometheus was not a god and it was a vulture.

4) Athena, which would explain why she is the Goddess of Wisdom.

Ok Ashford, Promethius is a god, of the Olympian generation at that.  He is son of the Titans Iapetos and Clymene.  His brothers include Atlas and Epimetheus.  Zeus is his cousin.  And it was Zeus who punished him.  The bird was an eagle, the bird representation of Zeus.  Promethius is immortal, that\'s how he survived the liver pecking, because he could not die.  In any event, yes number 1 is Promethius.  
Athena is the correct answer to number 4, but she is known as the goddes of wisdom because she was concieved in the goddess Wisdom, then transplanted into Zeus\'s head.

Prometheus wasn\'t a god in the sense of one of the 12 Gods of Olympus. I forgot what he was. A Titan? I know he was immortal but immortality don\'t make you a god.

But while we\'re at it....

1) Which 2 Gods/Goddesses are twins?

2) Who are Aphrodite\'s husband and lover?

3) What fruit did Persephone eat in the underworld and what significance does it bode?

4) What ritual did Gods/Goddesses perform to turn mortals into immortals?

5) Why did Hera hate Hercules?

There\'s confusion between an Olympian god, and the 12(14) gods of Olympus.  According to Hesiod and Ovid (They came before Homer) there are about 40 Olympian gods (they were descendants of the Titan gods)

No, Promethius was not a god of Olympus, but he was an "Olympian" god.

Ashfords Answers:

1 Artemis and Apollo are twins

2 Aphrodite\'s husband is Hephaestus, and her lover is Aeres.

5 Hercules was a son of a mortal woman, Hera was jeolus!

Here\'s my next set of questions (the ones not answered yet are carried over)

A) Which Nymph was turned into a cow (Hint: an ancester of Hercules)?

Which god is known as the "earth-shaker" (Hint: his animal is the horse)?

C) Which goddess is referred to as Cow-eyed (Hint: Her animal is the pea****)?

D) Who was the first Werewolf (Hint: there is a search engine named after him)?

E) What fruit did Persephone eat in the underworld and what significance does it bode?

F) What ritual did Gods/Goddesses perform to turn mortals into immortals?

G) What river god do the gods of Olympus take an oath over?

H) Which constellation represents Callisto?



Um, I try to type in pea**** but the end gets blocked out.  It\'s a bird with large tail feathers, in most zoos.

Oh god, reading all this about gods is giving me a headache, the week before school let out we had just finished reading the Odyssey.  That was a loooooooong book and I failed a good 2 or 3 quizes on it.

All I know is Prometheus was a god but when he gave humans fire he turned into a mortal.

So what "writers" and translators is everybody reading?  This will probably clear up the whole Promethius thing.  I\'ve read recently:

M.L. West\'s translation of Hesiod\'s "Theogony" and "Works and Days"

Grene and Lattimore\'s translation of Aeschylus\'s "Promethius Bound"

Rolf Humphries translation of Ovid\'s "Metamorphoses"

Let me just say right now that if your information is based on a movie or television show you should probably read at least some mythology.  TV and movies, as always, bend facts and change around a lot of stuff in order to a) make it more appealing to the audiance and b) save budget on costumes, and crazy god-like stunts.

Wouldn\'t it be cool to have a game based on some Greek/Roman mythology?

Oh, and within the next month I will hope to have finished Euripides "Medea;" Aeschylus\'s "Agamemnon;" Sophocles\'s "Oedipus the King" and "Antigone;" Euripides\'s "Hippolytus;" Appollonus\'s "The Voyage of Argo;" and Homer\'s "Iliad" and "Odyssey."   Well, maybe TWO months.

Lycos, GO GET IT!!!