Episode 62 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 62: A Curious Passion. See what you remember about Books 6-10 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses by clicking “START” below!

1 / 20

The youth Caunus is revolted to learn that his sister is in love with him. Her name is:

2 / 20

This character falls in love with her father.

3 / 20

This old man and his wife offer hospitality to Jupiter and Mercury, and are rewarded as a result.

4 / 20

Becomes a nightingale.

5 / 20

He loves the huntress Atalanta and tries to give her her due when she’s central to bringing down the Calydonian Boar, but later suffers a bad death.

6 / 20

This girl, raised as a boy, her gender secretly concealed, falls in love with another girl.

7 / 20

This legendary Greek king cut down a tree sacred to Ceres, and had to suffer eternal hunger as a result.

8 / 20

This character inadvertently gives her husband a poisonous shirt.

9 / 20

The husband of Procris, this man has a magical javelin that returns after being thrown.

10 / 20

This character unwittingly eats his child.

11 / 20

Venus’ lover, this beautiful young man is killed by a boar.

12 / 20

This ancient Greek princess, captivated by Minos of Crete, sells out her kingdom so that Minos can win a war waged against her father, only to later find that Minos is not interested in an attachment with a traitor.

13 / 20

Arachne and Minerva

14 / 20

This woman, who has fourteen children, mocks the goddess Leto (Latona in Latin), who only had two.

15 / 20

Medea pretends to be restoring the youth of the King of Iolcus, but actually kills him. What’s this king’s name?

16 / 20

Beats Atalanta in a foot race by distracting her with golden apples.

17 / 20

Falls in love with his own artistic creation.

18 / 20

Philomela’s sister

19 / 20

Abducted by the north wind Boreas, this woman becomes the mother of the Boreads, or the children of the north wind.

20 / 20

The mother of Hercules, this character tells a story about what it was like to give birth to the ancient strongman in Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses.’

Your score is