Death and Burial & Journeys to the Underworld revision

Orpheus travelled to the underworld when ​ (a)   died on their wedding day.

• Eurydice
• Demeter
• Persephone

Orpheus persuaded the gods of the underworld to release her by playing his ​ (a)   .

• lyre
• guitar
• harp

Who allowed Hades to marry Persephone?

• Hera
• Ares
• Zeus
• Poseidon

In which city did Demeter set up her cult worship?

• Eleusis

• Athens

• Sparta

• Tiryns

What was Orpheus' mistake?

• He didn't offer sacrifices to Pluto and Proserpina

• He couldn't get past Cerberus

• He looked back at Eurydice as he was leaving

• The gods didn't appreciate his song

Link each character to their role in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

• Sent by Zeus to give Hades a message

• Mercury

• Desperate to get her daughter back

• Demeter

• Brings Demeter back to Olympus

• Rhea

• Abducted by Hades

• Persephone

• Tells Demeter what happened

• Helios

Link each character to their role in the myth of Orpheus

• King of the underworld

• Orpheus

• Queen of the underworld

• Pluto

• Bitten by a snake on her wedding day

• Eurydice

• Charmed by Orpheus' song

• Spirits

• Attempts to bring his wife back to life

• Proserpina

What fruit did Hades give Persephone to eat?

• An apple

• Pomegranate seeds

• A banana

• Some grapes

Match the following Greek funerary terms

• carved stone slab used as tombstone

• prothesis

• passionate expression of grief or sorrow

• Kerameikos

• funeral procession in ancient Greece

• ekphora

• part of Athens with the main burial area

• stele

• laying out of the body for two days

• lament

How many days was the prothesis (laying out of the body) in a Greek funeral?

• 2

• 3

• 8

• 14