Figures from Greek Mythology

Thank you so much for listing Heracles with the proper Greek name.

I agree, i learned it with a k, but as long as it is not roman i dont mind

in latin he was called Hercules, no k. actually, i think Herakles is also acceptable as a transcription from the greek (the sound is the same)

Am i the only one who typed percy jackson for the medusa question?

I didn't do that but on another quiz I typed Grover instead of satyr!

yep i did it too.....

This is depressing. Y'all need D'Aulaire's book of Greek myths, not Percy Jackson. Honestly.

No one knows her.

I missed Eris because I kept spelling it "Eres"

I kept trying Eros and Eos

Eros is a different god, the Greek equivalent to Cupid, I believe. Eos might also be another god, but I wouldn't know which one.

me too!

Aeneas is a Roman myth

Shikari (33) Yes, but only because the Romans used Greek myth as a way of linking their city with the Greek world (of which they were a neighbour in Italy). Aeneas fought in the Iliad (I think he fought Patroclus when P. was wearing Achilles' armour, though he may have fought Diomedes, I don't quite remember, and he was rescued by his mother, Aphrodite). He is also mentioned by Pindar, I think, in one of his Olympian odes. Yes, Aeneas's definitely there in Greek myth.

That was the only one I missed.

He is mentioned in the Iliad but is not a major character

yes agreed totally

Aeneas was more commonly known in Roman Mythology because if you read the question it says who fled to Italy, But he was a part of the Trojan War

Aeneas appears in the Iliad. Virgil then appropriated the character to create a "myth" about the origin of the romans...although in his day it was just a story, not a myth.

missed Oedipus because of spelling... odipeus is so close...

Ugh! I knew a lot of those, but didn't know how to spell them!!! Odysseus!!! Ugh!!

Im a geek of Greek mythology and I have like 20 of them

I always spell "Chronos" as Kronos

yes, and it accepted it too, which I personally thought was cool.

Chrono means time in latin, so they shouldn't accept kronos. They're different

Correct. Although greeks at some point mistook them to the be the same. This is just what I read on Wikipedia. I always thought they were different, Cronos being the Titan and father of Zeus.

Please, accept Oidipus for Oedipus, it is quite a common spelling in many languages.

heracles completed 14 labors, not 12. Good quiz though, got every one but aeneas

No, pretty sure it's twelve.

Guessed Perseus when I meant Theseus. Thankfully they're both on this quiz.

I know everything and got them all!It was hard to spell them though.

Annnnnnd why is Midas not on hereeeeeee

For 'he flew too close to the sun', i thought that was phaethon. then i realized that he was the sun. :(

I knew all of them as a Greek, but boy, the spelling of many of them was kinda difficult. Could you accept the greek words in latin as well?

Missed Oedipus.

I missed Hector. good quiz.

Why does everyone one spell Kronos wrong, seriously it's almost offensive

Because Chronos, the personification of time, was originally a completely separate figure from Kronos, the leader of the Titans and Zeus' father. Don't feel bad; they've been confused and conflated for literally thousands of years because of their similar names.

I would like to have seen more females such as Artemis, Hecate, any of the Muses, Hestia, Nike, Aphrodite, Athena, etc. and less about Troy and the Trojan War. That was always my least favorite part of Greek mythology but I realize that's not the case for everyone.

That sounds great! Can you make that one?