WorksheetsGreek Gods (easy)
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
Earthshaker, stormbringer, father of horses
Zues
Poseidon
Apollo
Hades
The thunderer, rain god, Lord of the sky.
Zues
Apollo
Artemus
Poseidon
Destroyer of men, blood stained.
Apollo
Athena
Ares
Zeus
What is the prophecy Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus had seeked?
οἶδα δ'ἐγὼ ψάμμου τ᾽ ἀριθμὸν καὶ μέτρα θαλάσσης, καὶ κωφοῦ συνίημι, καὶ οὐ φωνεῦντος ἀκούω. ὀδμή μ᾽ ἐς φρένας ἦλθε κραταιρίνοιο χελώνης ἑψομένης ἐν χαλκῷ ἅμ᾽ ἀρνείοισι κρέεσσιν, ᾗ χαλκὸς μὲν ὑπέστρωται, χαλκὸν δ᾽ ἐπιέσται.
Tell the emperor that my hall has fallen to the ground. Phoibos no longer has his house, nor his mantic bay, nor his prophetic spring; the water has dried up.
Know you better than I, fair Libya abounding in fleeces? Better the stranger than he who has trod it? Oh! Clever Therans!
ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἡμίονος βασιλεὺς Μήδοισι γένηται, καὶ τότε, Λυδὲ ποδαβρέ, πολυψήφιδα παρ᾽ Ἕρμον φεύγειν μηδὲ μένειν μηδ᾽ αἰδεῖσθαι κακὸς εἶναι.
Your presences here angers the god you seek.
What is the prophecy that Solon seeked?
that he should found a city in Libya.
if they ... would make a settlement at Cyrene in Libya, things would go better with them.
First sacrifice to the warriors who once had their home in this island,
Whom now the rolling plain of fair Asopia covers,
Laid in the tombs of heroes with their faces turned to the sunset,
Seat yourself now amidships, for you are the pilot of Athens. Grasp the helm fast in your hands; you have many allies in your city.
ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν ἡμίονος βασιλεὺς Μήδοισι γένηται, καὶ τότε, Λυδὲ ποδαβρέ, πολυψήφιδα παρ᾽ Ἕρμον φεύγειν μηδὲ μένειν μηδ᾽ αἰδεῖσθαι κακὸς εἶναι.
Of which seeked this prophecy:
Await not in quiet the coming of the horses, the marching feet, the armed host upon the land. Slip away. Turn your back. You will meet in battle anyway. O holy Salamis, you will be the death of many a woman's son between the seedtime and the harvest of the grain.
Spartans
Athens
Persian
Alexander the Great
What happened when Alexander the Great was consulting the Oracle of Delphi?
She told him he would fail and would be captured by the villain's hands. Afterwards he threw her stool at her.
She refused to explain her answer, so he dragged her by her hair out of her chamber until she screamed ἀνίκητος εἶ ὦ παῖ. [you are invincible, my son!].
She told him he would succeed in glory but will descend in flames.
She said "Beware of the dark and aid the good."
