Echo/Pan/Prometheus/Pandora
Pan is the god of ___________.
What is nature?
Midas, a not-so-clever king, asked to be granted the wish to _______________________.
What is turn everything he touched into gold.
Who was the 9 muses' father?
ZEUS
Why did Helios allow Phaeton to drive his sun chariot?
What is because Helios swore on the River Styx?
What is the name of the ferryman and where did he row his boat (on what body of water)?
Who is Charon and what is the River Styx
What did Prometheus want to gift to mortals?
What happened when he defied Zeus and gave this gift to humans?
What is fire?
What is eagles pecked at his liver every day when he was chained to the top of a mountain?
Sisiphus, a clever king, was tormented for all of eternity by being forced to do what every day?
What is roll a boulder up a mountain, only for it to roll back down again- he had to do this for eternity.
Which god taught the muses to sing and share their stories with music?
APOLLO
Why did the gods choose to punish Tantalus?
What is because he sacrificed his son, Pelops, and fed him in a stew?
What is another name for the oracle at Delphi?
The pythia.
How did Echo lose her ability to chatter all the time?
After covering up for Zeus by talking nonstop- Echo was punished by Hera and could only repeat the sounds of others. She could never speak on her own again.
How did Orpheus' wife die the first time?
She died of a snake bite.
How did Phaeton ultimately die when he chose to drive Helios' chariot?
Phaeton died when Zeus struck him down with a lightning bolt to save earth from destruction.
Name the three different levels of the Underworld.
Elysian Fields= heroes
Asphodel= neither good nor bad
Tartarus= uhoh- where the wicked go
Zeus created Pandora to punish mortals. What are two ways he did this?
Which god came to Orion's aid when he was blinded in two of the three myths we read?
Name another god/goddess who sided with Orion
Who is Hephaestus?
Artemis and Poseidon also worked with Orion
Apollo and Gaea worked against him
What did Orpheus do wrong when he was given a chance to rescue her from the Underworld?
He looked back because he didn't trust that she was behind him...and she vanished.
What was Tantalus' punishment for cooking his son?
He stood up to his neck in water but could never quench his thirst. He also could never reach trees loaded with fruit hanging right above him.
What two gods were most often attributed to Delphi, and where did the ancient Greeks think Delphi existed?
Who are Apollo and Dionysus- and the center if the universe.
After Hermes came up to carry Narcissus down to the Underworld, what sprung up in his place?
Why did he die?
The Narcissus flower
He loved himself so much that he became captivated with his image and couldn't eat or drink- he wasted away and died
Why did Apollo turn Midas' ears into donkey ears? And what happened to Midas after this?
Midas sided with a satyr who challenged Apollo by saying he was a better musician. Gods don't like that!
Orpheus may have dies from a broken heart- but who killed him?
Who gave him a proper burial?
wild nymphs
the Muses
How did Tantalus's son win his wife's hand in marriage? What did he need to do?
win a chariot race- the father-in-law ended uo dying because the stable boy tinkered with his chariot- then Pelops threw the stable boy off a cliff and lived happily ever after...
Who held the most power at the oracle at Delphi?
The priest- because he interpreted the maniacal chants of the pythia and delivered the message to the people seeking answers.