Assignment Details

Cover Work: The Olympians

2019-20

Classics Year 8

Date Due

Jan. 17, 2020

Additional Info
Please read the attached document below and then, also looking at info on your Ipad, write the below questions AND the answers in your exercise book. Make sure to properly title your work (the title is below, along with questions), and skip a line between each question and answer.

Some of the answers are deliberately difficult. I will be impressed with anyone who gets all correct answers!

The Olympians
  1. Who did Zeus and the other Olympians (Gods who lived on Mount Olympus) defeat in order to become the masters of the world?
  2. Who is Zeus' father, and why did Zeus rise against him?
  3. Who is the Queen of the Gods, and what is she the goddess of?
  4. Which is the only Greek god who is called the same name by the Romans?
  5. Who is the messenger god? What made him unusual as a baby?
  6. Why does Hephaestus, the Blacksmith God, walk with a limp?
  7. Who is considered to be the most beautiful of all the goddesses?
  8. Why does Hades never appear on Mount Olympus?
  9. Who is the god of all the following things: Music, science, logic, medicine, prophecy and truth, the sun?
  10. Aphrodite married Hephaestus, but who is she really in love with?
  11. What was strange about Athena's birth?
  12. Who is the twin sister of Apollo, and what is she the goddess of?
  13. Hestia was a very important goddess to the Ancient Greeks. Why?
  14. What are Poseidon's feelings towards his brother, Zeus?
  15. Why did Zeus create men?
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