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Theogony and Works and Days escape rooms

3 self-checking escape rooms on Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.

No logins and nothing to install. Try the first two locks of any room free. See all the mythology escape rooms.

Room by room

• The Birth of the Gods: Out of Chaos. Theogony and Works and Days: the Muses on Helicon, the first beings born from Chaos, the children of Earth and Heaven, Cronus and the sickle, the birth of Aphrodite, the children of Night, and Rhea's trick to save her youngest son.
• The War with the Titans: Thunder Over Othrys. Theogony and Works and Days: the Cyclopes' gift of thunder and lightning, the freeing of the Hundred-Handers, the great battle, the prison of Tartarus and the places around it, Zeus's fight with Typhoeus, and his rule and marriages as king of the gods.
• Works and Days: The Farmer's Year. Theogony and Works and Days: the quarrel with Perses, the two kinds of Strife, Prometheus and the making of Pandora, the five races of men, the hawk and the nightingale, the rewards of justice, the farmer's year by the stars and the birds, and the lucky and unlucky days.