A group of fables written by a Greek storyteller which taught children lessons about life.
What is Aesop's Fables?
100
A children's story involving fantastic forces and beings which takes place in a make believe world.
What is a fairy tale?
100
My stories are about people who are larger than life.
What is a tall tale?
100
My characters are based on real people.
What is a legend?
100
A myth usually includes gods ,goddesses ,or super human beings.
What is the definition of myth?
200
A short story that teaches children to be patient and take their time instead of rushing through things just to get them done. The story teaches, slow and steady wins the race.
What is the Tortoise and the Hare?
200
This story teaches children not to be greedy and when you do have money or a resource of some kind, you shouldn't use it all up all at once.
What is The Goose That Laid a Golden Egg?
200
An event that makes heroes of normal people. These people often become the subjects of tall tales.
What is war?
200
The Greek son of Zeus who decapitated Medusa.
Who is Perseus?
200
A story that involves the Goddess Athena who challenges Arachne to a spinning contest. When Athena is offended by Arachne, she turns Arachne into a spider and sentences her to a life of spinning webs.
What happens in the story The Weaving Contest Between Athena and Arachne?
300
Story that teaches children not to judge someone who is smaller than they are because you never know who will save your life.
What is the Lion and the Mouse?
300
I am the main character in a fairy tale about love and trust, and magical love arrows.
Who is Cupid?
300
The woman known best for causing the Trojan war.
Who is Helen of Troy?
300
A creature that is half man-half bull.
What is a minotaur?
300
The father of the Greek Gods.
Who is Zeus?
400
Greek storytellers went from town to town, earning a living telling stories. They told the same stories over and over, and eventually the stories were written down and passed on to other generations.
What is the history of Greek fables?
400
A man who turns everything he touches into gold.
Who is Midas?
400
Stories that are partially true but not all the way.
What is an exaggeration.
400
His mother was a mortal. But his father was a king - a very special king, the mighty Zeus.
Who is Hercules?
400
The home of the Greek Gods.
What is Mt. Olympus
500
A story that teaches children not to believe everything they are told, and to be cautious of flattery.
What is the fox and the crow?
500
A Greek fairy tale about an evil gypsy and a kind King.
What is Brother and Sister?
500
Two brothers that played jokes on each other.
Who are Hermes and Apollo?
500
The Greek Hero that came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse to sneak troops.