Exam 8: Myths of Hermes, Pan, Hephaestus, and Ares

As _______, or "soul guide," Hermes leads the dead into the House of Hades.

Who notice the passing of baby Hermes as he passed by on his adventure outside his cave?

Hephaestus is the patron god of which workers, about whom Greeks had ambiguous feelings?

What does Hephaestus make in order to trap Ares and Aphrodite?

How does Zeus resolve the dispute between baby Hermes and Apollo?

Who is Hermes' mother and father?

How does baby Hermes react to Apollo's accusation that he has stolen Apollo's sacred cattle?

What is the Roman name for Hermes?

On which island was Hephaestus probably a native god of the Tyrsenoi?

Hermes looked after _______.

Which of the following are among the children of Ares and Aphrodite?

In which poem is the story of Hephaestus' revenge on Ares and Aphrodite told?

What is this object called?

The myth of Pan and what nymph explains the origin of the pan-pipe?

_______ is one of the few deities in Greek myth whose form was sometimes only partly human.

Hermes' name seems pretty transparently to mean "_______."

In the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Hermes and Apollo may represent which two broad social distinctions?

Just after he is born, Hermes comes across a tortoise at the threshold of his cave. What does he make out of the tortoise?.

Something that functions apotropaically does what?

Who got Hephaestus drunk and brought him back to Mt. Olympus to free Hera, whom Hephaestus had trapped on her throne?