greek mythology chaos

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Which kid did Tantalus kill when he invited the gods for dinner?

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Pelops

Answer explanation

no one's really sure why pelops was the unlucky one here :T but he got to live on as a king while the rest of his family got overtaken by the curse (thanks to tantalus), so yay? demeter did actually eat a bit of his shoulder 'cause she was grieving persephone, so when he was revived (yeah, that happened), she replaced it with ivory. -a.k

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When the God Hermes was born, he snuck out of his cave and stole the cattle of

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Apollo

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Who here is NOT one of Poseidon's Children? Options: Pegasus, Polyphemus, Perseus, audrey/rin

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Perseus

Answer explanation

If you didn't click Perseus, we're really sorry guys <3 It was too good of an opportunity to trip you up. :D Perseus was actually a son of Zeus who is famously known for slaying the gorgon Medusa! You may have confused Perseus with Percy Jackson, who is indeed a son of Poseidon!

(Nara)

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which came first, the egg... or the chaos?

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chaos!

Answer explanation

mostly based off the popular "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" - except. there was.. an egg creation myth, that maybe we mentioned? and there was chaos, the first primordial deity. So yes, chaos came before the egg.. we mostly just thought it was funny :)

(Nara)

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How many kids did King Priam (a king of Troy) have?

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a hundred

Answer explanation

as unbelievable as it sounds, King Priam of Troy had fifty sons and fifty daughters..... (How did Hecuba - their mother- bear so many children...?) many of them didn't survive the Trojan War (Hector, Polyxena, etc.)

(Nara)

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The witch Circe was known for turning men into...?

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Pigs

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The event in which Zeus threw a hissyfit flooded the world and wiped out human civilization was commonly known as?

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The Flood Of Deucalion

Answer explanation

long story short, zeus got really pissed was angry at someone named Lycaon for trying to test his divinity by [.... you can go reference the tantalus story thank you very much] and uh long story short, he sent a flood that wiped out all of humanity, save a guy named Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha! They eventually gave birth to a new race of humanity - BUT that's not the point, the point is a second chance for humanity etc. etc. but sometimes we can't help but wonder if all that could've been avoided if zeus just.. didn't... wipe out humanity? questions to think about...

(Nara)

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Jason and the Argonauts set out to retrieve the...?

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Golden Fleece