Review Questions for Final over Greek Legends and other stories about Gods and Humans (Mostly). Fill in the Blanks.

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1. Loved by Zeus, turned into a cow, eventually is ancestor of line of kings for Egypt and Argos
2. Bribed a king's chariot mechanic so he could win the race, then killed said mechanic.
3. Slept with his mother, killed his father
4. Seduced the wife of Atreus, ate his own children.
5. Zeus took her to Crete in the form of a bull:
6. What Deucalion and Pyrra tossed behind their backs:
7. Defended the laws of the Gods concerning burial against human law
8. Sacrificed by father so that he could go to Troy:
9. Had to kill his mother to avenge his father
10. Original founder of Thebes.
11. Gave humanity fire, all other acts and sciences.
12. Married to Theseus, Aphrodite made her fall in love with her stepson
13. King of Thebes that, while in exile, seduced the son of his host
14. Loved by Apollo, whom she rejected, she became his favorite tree.
15. Sister of Orestes
16. Born from the head of Zeus:
17. Two sons of Oedipus
18. Represented Orestes as defense counsel:
19. God who destroyed Pentheus
20. Chief Greek chieftain at Troy:
21. A woman with the heart of a man, who loved her husband's worst enemy when he was away, then  killed him when he returned home. 
22. Feeds his brother's children to his brother for dinner.
23. Declared that Polynices would be left outside to rot because he was a traitor:
24. Gave refuge to Oedipus and learned the secret of his death.
25. Threatened Thebes, told riddles
26. Couldn' t control the chariot of his father, the sun god.
27. Acts a the judge for the first murder trial at Athens.
28. Tried to serve his son to the gods for dinner, perpetually tempted in Underworld.
29. Son of Theseus, devoted to Artemis, he is falsely accused of attempted rape.
30. When he died, he learned the secret of the Platonic afterlife.
31. Mother of Persphone
32. Killed the snake of Ares, became a snake at end of his life:
33. The minor goddess that Peleus was married off to:
34. Turned into a stag, ripped apart by his own hounds because he accidentally saw Artemis naked.
35. Stole Helen from Menelaus.
36. Wife and Mother of Oedipus:
37. Loved by Zeus in the form of a swan:
38. Greatest Theban prophet:
39. Fated to bear a son greater than its Father
40. Loved and rejected Apollo, who made it so nobody would believe what she said.
41. Seized Persephone, took her to the underworld
42. According to Plato, he is an intermediate spirit, a child of Poverty and Necessity. 
43. Made love to Aphrodite without knowing it, later became lame.
44. Greatest Thracian poet/singer, tried to get his wife out of Hades. Nearly succeeded.
45. Mother of Dionysos
46. _____made his ideal woman out of ivory. Aphrodite turned the statue into a real woman.
47. Cast tie-breaking vote at Orestes' trial.
48. Ruled Mycenae along with Clytemnestra after  Agamemnon's murder.
49.According to one account, killed and ate the young Dionysos, then called Zagreus.
50. Challenged Athena to a weaving contest, hung herself, was turned into a spider.

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