Exam 33: Greece: Heracles and Dionysus

Maenads are __________________________.

When Heracles brings the Nemean lion to Eurystheus, he is told to remain outside the city and display the lion outside the gates because _________________________.

Heracles was given the task of freeing _____________________________, who was chained to a rock as punishment for giving fire to humans.

"Zeus is the father of Heracles" and "Amphitryon is the father of Heracles" are NOT contradictory because ____________________________________________________________.

Geryon, of the Tenth Labor, is a monster because _____________________.

____________________, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, was originally human and only later made immortal.

The crew of Tyrrhenians who betrayed Dionysus _________________________________________.

Athena took the apples of the Hesperides from Heracles and returned them to their hiding place because ____________________________________________.

____________________________, brought back by Heracles in his final labor, are a symbol or a source of immortality and renewed youth.

The Pythia at the Delphic oracle told Heracles that when he had completed his assigned labors, he would become ____________________________.

For the Greeks, ephebes were ___________________________________________.

Heracles ultimately kills ________________because the Amazons begin attacking him as a result of a plot by Hera.

The Greek festivals of Dionysus did NOT include _______________________________________.

Heracles went to Delphi to ask how he should atone for ___________________________________________.

_________________ can be defined as the situation in which the names and attributes of various gods are mingled and the rituals and beliefs of different regions become intertwined.

The stories of Heracles' labors gave the Greeks insight into their cosmology by _________________________.

Heracles was aided in his Sixth Labor, driving away the Stymphalian birds, by _____________________, who gave him _________________________.

Hippolyte was queen of the ___________________.

Heracles was said to have been driven mad by ____________________.

Eurystheus did not accept Heracles' labor of cleaning out the Augean stables in a day because ________________________________________________________.