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Junior Cycle Classics: Women and gender in myth

How often Women and gender in myth comes up on the Classics papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Women and gender in myth, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Women and gender in myth.

(a)Why is Atalanta unusual among the women of Greek myth?
  1. She ruled Athens as its first queen
  2. She hunted and raced like a hero
  3. She was the mother of Achilles
(b)How did Penelope delay choosing a new husband from among her suitors?
  1. She hid away in her father's palace
  2. She set them all impossible riddles
  3. She unpicked her weaving each night
(c)Which Trojan princess could see the future but was never believed?
  1. Cassandra
  2. Hecuba
  3. Andromache
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(a) She hunted and raced like a hero

(b) She unpicked her weaving each night

(c) Cassandra

Your turn: Common Level questions on Women and gender in myth.

Common Level

Asked on 4 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q2, Q3
2025Q1
2024Not asked
2023Q4
2022Q3

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Women and gender in myth questions

Women and gender in myth, 3 marks

Hesiod tells of Pandora, the first woman. In his story, women are blamed for…

  1. Starting the war at Troy
  2. Teaching humans how to farm the land
  3. Letting evils into the world
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Letting evils into the world

Zeus had Pandora made as a punishment for Prometheus's gift of fire. She opened the jar and released evils. The story reflects a very negative Greek attitude to women.

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