| A | B |
|---|
| Greek goddess of wisdom,weaving,battle strategy | Athena |
| Roman goddess of wisdom,weaving,battle strategy | Minerva |
| Athena's sacred bird | owl |
| Athena's sacred tree | olive tree |
| Athen's epithets | Pallas, "grey-eyed", Parthenos (virgin) |
| Athena's shield | Aegis |
| What is the Aegis? | shield with Medusa's head affixed to it |
| With whom did Athena compete for her sacred city? | Poseidon |
| Athena's mother | Metis |
| What is the meaning of "Metis"? | mind |
| How was Athena born? | from Zeus's head |
| Whom did Minerva turn into a spider? | Arachne |
| Why did Minerva punish Arachne? | boasted she was a better weaver than Minerva |
| Roman god of travellers,thieves,business,messengers | Mercury |
| Mercury's Greek name | Hermes |
| What did Hermes create? Out of what did he create it? | lyre, tortoise shell |
| Mercury's staff (wand) | Caduceus |
| Hermes's winged hat | petasus |
| Hermes's mother | Maia (daughter of Atlas) |
| Whose cattle did Hermes steal? | Apollo |
| What did Hermes give Apollo? | lyre |
| Hermes's birthplace | Mt. Cylene, Arcadia |
| Roman god of wine | Bacchus |
| Greek god of religious intoxication, theatre, tragedy, wine | Dionysus |
| Dionysus's staff | Thyrsos |
| describe the Thyrsos | staff topped with pine cone |
| mother of Dionysus | Semele |
| sacred plants of Dionysus | vine, grapes |
| symbolic animals of Bacchus | tiger, leopard, jaguar, lion (big cats) |
| Dionysus was raised by this old satyr | Silenus |
| When he was young, Bacchus was captures by whom? | pirates |
| He turned his pirate captors into what? | dolphins |
| Dionysus's epithets | Liber, Twice-born |
| Old man Hermes turned to stone | Battus |
| Dionysus's female followers who eventually tore him apart | Maenads |
| Founder of Thebes, Semele's father | Cadmus |
| What art form was Bacchus the god of? | theatre, tragedy |
| Roman name of the Maenads | Bacchantes |
