Myth I: Gods and Goddesses 2

What patron goddess of the harvest is often shown with a sheaf of wheat?

• Ceres
• Venus
• Juno
• Minerva

What goddess, often represented by an owl, was born fully armored from the head of her father Jupiter?

• Ceres
• Venus
• Juno
• Minerva

What goddess is often represented by a peacock, which is said to have been decorated with the 100 eyes of Argus?

• Ceres
• Venus
• Juno
• Minerva

Saturn, a Titan who fathered Jupiter and his siblings, became the Italian god of

• love and friendship
• harvest and agriculture
• volcanoes and metalworking
• the military and its ceremonies

Vulcan, the husband of Venus, is the god of

• love and friendship
• harvest and agriculture
• volcanoes and metalworking
• the military and its ceremonies

Mars, the lover of Venus, is the god of

• love and friendship
• harvest and agriculture
• volcanoes and metalworking
• the military and its ceremonies

Venus, the mother of Cupid and Aeneas (and therefore supposedly an ancestor of Julius Caesar), is the goddess of

• love and friendship
• harvest and agriculture
• volcanoes and metalworking
• the military and its ceremonies

History, astronomy, dance, and comedy were all presided over by what group of mythological figures?

• Muses
• Fates
• Gorgons
• Graces

Medusa and her sisters were known together as the what?

• Muses
• Fates
• Gorgons
• Graces

Botticelli's famous painting "La Primavera" depicts what three beautiful figures dancing in a circle?

• Muses
• Fates
• Gorgons
• Graces