1. Hera
   ambrosia
2. fire

Prometheus, a Titan, stole fire and gave it to humanity as part of his constant struggles against Zeus. As punishment, he was chained to a rock, where an eagle ate his liver every day (being an immortal, he never died and grew a new liver).

1. Atalanta
   Pandora
2. Andromeda

Pandora was created as a sort of punishment for humanity. At the instructions of Zeus, she was made with an array of gifts with which to seduce men.

1. the Golden Fleece
   the head of Medusa
2. the scepter of Zeus

Pelias, king of Iolcus, tasked Jason with retrieving the Golden Fleece. Pelias knew Jason would take his throne because Jason was only wearing one sandal.

1. prisoners and slaves with nothing to lose
   the greatest heroes of his era
2. his brothers and sons

The Argonauts were basically the Greek mythology Avengers/Justice League — every great Greek hero of the era, including Heracles, joined the quest.

1. Circe
   Hestia
2. Nike

In some versions of the story, Jason and Medea stop and visit Circe toward the end of the quest.

1. the war between the Titans and their children, the Olympians
   the infernal machine deep within Tartarus that created the Titans
2. the demiplane where the Titans resided until they were cast into Tartarus

The Titanomachy is the war that pitted Zeus and the Olympians against Cronus and the Titans. The Olympians won.

1. Apollo
   Proteus
2. Poseidon

Poseidon is the god of the sea, and he is Zeus' brother.

1. She is his daughter and his wife.
   She is his sister and his mother.
2. She is his mother and his wife.

Adoptive parents raised Oedipus to avoid a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He later killed a man who turned out to be his dad, then became king of Thebes and married Jocasta, who he later realized was his biological mother. Hence she was his mother and his wife.

1. on Mount Olympus
   in Asgard
2. on Mount Othrys

The 12 foremost gods were called Olympians, after their home atop Mount Olympus (specifically on top of the highest peak, Mytikas, since Olympus has over 50 peaks).

1. Gaia
   Hecate
2. Hera

Gaia was born of Chaos. In some traditions, Chaos, Gaia, Eros and Tartarus were the four original primordials.

1. Cronus and Phoebe
   Zeus and Hera
2. Gaia and Uranus

Gaia and Uranus are the parents of the 12 Titans and creatures such as the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes.

1. Hades
   Heracles
2. Achilles

Hades abducted Persephone and took her to the Underworld, where she is forced to spend part of every year.

1. His sister placed a curse on him so he would forever have to worry about getting shot in the heel.
   He was invulnerable because his mother dipped him in the River Styx, but she had to hold him by the heel, so that part didn't get dipped.
2. He turned and fled the battle at Troy, and his cowardice broke the spell that gave him his invulnerability. Because he was running away, his heel became his only weakness.

His mother, Thetis, did not know that you have to toss your sons in a basket of Styx water to ensure an even coating of invulnerability. The same advice holds true for making chicken wings.

1. Their arms are where their legs should be, and vice versa.
   They have ears on their foreheads.
2. They have 100 hands.

The Hekatonkheires are three giants with 100 hands each. They helped the Olympians battle the Titans because Uranus had thrown them into Tartarus in disgust.

1. Medusa
   the Chimera
2. the Harpies

Bellerophon rode Pegasus at the Chimera, lodging a chunk of lead in the monster's throat. Its fiery breath melted the lead and the Chimera suffocated.

1. the Amazons
   Athens
2. the Titans

Heracles' journey to obtain the girdle was going well until Hera's treachery led to a battle in which Heracles killed Hippolyta. The incident led to a battle between the Amazons and Athens.

1. He gave the cattle a look so stern and intimidating that they stopped pooping and cleaned the stables themselves.
   He traveled to Hades and procured 1,000 immortal dung beetles, which were able to clear the poop from the stables.
2. He changed the courses of two rivers so that they washed the poop out of the stables.

Heracles used rivers to do the job. Eurystheus, who made Heracles do all these labors as penance for murdering his own children (after Hera drove him made, but still), decided Heracles had kind of cheated on the task and it didn’t count. This is why the original 10 labors became 12. Eurystheus also didn't count killing the Hydra because a buddy helped Heracles do it.

1. when 100 mortal heroes melded their bodies together with magical clay
   when Uranus' blood spilled onto Earth after Cronus castrated him and tossed his genitals away
2. when Gaia learned of Uranus' treachery and cried tears that washed away the land, leaving behind only the hardest rock, which formed the bodies of the Giants

The Giants were born from the blood of Uranus' discarded genitals.

1. at the boundary between Hades and Earth
   in Athens
2. from Zeus' forehead

Some versions of the story suggest Athena was conceived entirely by Zeus' thoughts and burst from his head; in others, Zeus impregnated Metis and then ate her, with Athena somehow gestating in his head. In either case she was born armed and armored.

1. a swan
   a dolphin
2. a rain of gold

Zeus never had sex with a mortal while in dolphin form — that would be silly.

1. the Minotaur
   the Sphynx
2. the Phoenix

He killed the Minotaur, with help from Ariadne.

1. Theseus didn’t put up the proper signal (white sails) to indicate he was alive, so Aegeus killed himself in grief, thinking his son had died.
   Aegeus had heard a prophecy that the slayer of the Minotaur would eventually kill him as well, and he wanted to prevent the prophecy from coming true to spite the gods.
2. He knew the killing of the Minotaur would anger Zeus, so he killed himself to appease Zeus.

Theseus left black sails on his ship, indicating he had died. Aegeus' death made Theseus king of Athens.

1. a hammer and sickle
   a bow and arrow
2. the corpse of a wild boar

Artemis is often depicted with a bow and arrow.

1. Athena
   Hermes
2. Tethys

Hermes' speed makes him the ideal messenger of godly messages.

1. because Menelaus wanted to get his wife, Helen, back from Troy
   because Ares urged Menelaus to fight a great war in his honor
2. because Troy was providing safety and protection to the monster Geryon, which had earlier attacked Sparta

Different versions disagree on whether Helen was in Troy willingly (or if she was even there at all), but she was the reason for the whole war.

1. Heracles and Bellerophon
   Ajax and Hector
2. Achilles and Odysseus

Ajax was chosen at random to battle Hector.

1. 10 years
   20 years
2. 100 years

It took him 10 years, a journey known as the "Odyssey." It probably would have gone more quickly if he hadn't done things like hang out on Circe's island for an entire year.

1. Penelope
   Circe
2. Daphne

When Odysseus returns home to Penelope, there's this whole thing with suitors and his son and a contest with axe handles and a disguise. It's like the world's worst episode of "Undercover Boss."

1. Cassandra
   Athena
2. Cassiopeia

To warn of future peril yet not have your warnings heeded is sometimes called the Cassandra complex.

1. Alcyoneus
   Chrysaor
2. Euryale

Perseus killed the mortal Medusa. Stheno and Euryale, however, were immortal.