Religion Quiz / ID mythological sites from description II (clickable)

City named after its patron goddess Athena, the site of the Areopagus and the Acropolis.

Site of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Site on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, where priestesses, called oracles, gave guidance to people seeking advice about the future, a site sacred to Apollo whose temples where located there.

Hill of Ares, just below the Acropolis, where the Areopagitae, or judges of the criminal court of Athens, ruled.

Dark place through which the souls of the dead had to pass on their way to Hades.

Land of perpetual darkness visited by Odysseus on his return home from the Trojan War.

City founded by Sisyphus, site where Athena puts the bridle on Pegasus for Bellerophon, and Poseidon's sanctuary.

Great outer stream or river said to encircle the earth.

Garden owned by Atlas where the golden apples grew on a tree.

Boetian mountain sacred to Apollo and the Muses, site of the Hippocrene, and inspiring fountain sacred to the Muses and allegedly created by the foot of Pegasus.

Body of water into which Icarus fell and drowned.

Kingdom of Menelaus and his wife Helen.

Italian region conquered by Aeneas.

River of Woe in Hades.

Famous mountain on which the Giants piled Mount Ossa in order to reach heaven in their losing battle against the Gods.

Island sacred to Hephaestus since its people cared for him when he landed there after being kicked out of heaven.

Lake considered by the ancients as the entrance to hell.

600-mile winding river in Asia Minor emptying into the Aegean Sea and bearing the name of Oceans and Tethys' son.

Calypso's island home where she kept Odysseus for 7 years as a prisoner and as her husband.

Mountain sacred to the Muses and named after the son of Poseidon.

Odysseus' island kingdom in the Ionian Sea.

Fountain of knowledge and poetic inspiration sacred to the Muses located near Mount Olympus.

City founded by Cadmus, where Laius, Oedipus, and Eteocies were kings.

Another name for the Elysian Fields, or Elysium; also called Islands of the Blest, the Fortunate Isles, and the Happy Islands.

River of Fire in Hades.

Circe's island home where Odysseus remained for a year.

Mountain in Thessaly that the Titans used to pile atop Mount Pelion in their losing battle against the gods.

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