The immortals of Ancient Greece
who was Hera?
Who was she married to her?
What was her main myth?
Hera was the god of marriage.
she was married to her brother Zeus.
Her main myth was her hate for Hercules because Zeus had so many affairs and had an affair with a mortal to create Hercules.
What was the Underworld?
Who was it ruled by?
Below the mortal world. Five rivers in the underworld.
Ruled by Hades.
What were the hundred handed giants?
Where were they imprisoned?
Who were there parents?
Who let them out and what happened?
The hundred handed giants had hundred hands and fifty heads.
They were imprisoned in Tatarus.
Parents were Gaea and Uranus
Zeus and the other gods let them ou, so tey fought for them
What did Prometheus do?
what is his punishment?
Zeus did not one person to have a specific or particular advantage regarding power so he took fire away. In retaliation Prometheus steels it back and gives it back to mortals.
Zeus gets mad and ties him up to a rock then every day aneagle comes and eats his liver.
Why couldn't Thisbe and Pyramus be together?
What happened?
What is the significance of the mulberry tree?
They were lovers who could not be with each other because Thisbe's family wanted her to marry someone with high class and money, which was not Pyramus.
One day they tried to run away together so they decided to meet at the Mulberry tree. On Pyramus' way he saw Thisbe's veil torn by lions and assumed she was dead so killed himself. In fact she was not so when she came and saw her lover she killed her self.
The significance of the mulberry tree was it represented love so when they were both alive it was white showing there love but when they died on the tree the roots turned black.
Who was Athena?
Who were her parents?
What was her main myth?
She was the goddess of wisdom and Warcraft. Athena was born out of Zeus head.
Her parents were Zeus and Metis.
Her main myth is her weaving contest with Arachne.
What was the River Styx?
This river represented hatred, it was the river to get to the underworld.
What was the Hydra?
Who killed it?
A monster tat lived next to a spring that had nine heads.
Hera killed the hydra.
Who was Theseus?
What is he famous for?
what did his father leave him?
Half mortal and immortal from his odd birth.
He is famous for killing the beast the minotaur
His father left him tokens so he set out to find him
Who was hestia?
She was the goddess of earth and domestic life.
Her parents were Cronus and Rhea
Who was Artemis?
What is her main myth?
Goddess of the moon, hunting and virginity. She is a immortal virgin. Her main myth was helping her mom birth her brother, Apollo.
What was the Tatarus
Below the underworld. For the worst people, the gods deep enemies. They got tortured in Tatarus.
What were the Satyrs?
Who did they follow around?
They were nature spirits. They were a human goat hybrid. They followed Dionysus
What was his dads job?
What was the proof he got?
What was the outcome of the proof?
He was the son of the god Helious
Helious is responsible for setting the sun every day using his chariot and the four horses that pull it.
Phaeton did not believe his dad was a god so he asked him to ride his chariot.
He did and the outcome was that he crashed and burned in Africa creating the Sahara dessert.
What did Apollo do?
What did Daphne do?
What does Apollo make the tree turn by his love?
Daphne was a goddess her parent was a god of the river
Apollo insulted the god cupid so he shot Daphne with an arrow to hate Apollo, and shot Apollo to love Daphne
Daphne went for help by a god before being raped by Apollo and so he turned her into a laurel tree
It turns green
Who was Hephaestus?
Who was he married to ?
What was his main myth?
The god of metalworking, forging and creating weapons for the gods.
He was married to Aphrodite.
His main myth was that he was thrown out by Hera, his mother for having a deformity.
What was the Elysian Fields?
place in the underworld if you had a great life. The judges of the underworld would decide is people were worthy to go to the Elysian Fields.
What were the Maenads?
What did they act as?
Group of women who followed around Dionysus.
Dionysus was the god of wine and madness.
The Maenads acted as Dionysus wariors with extreme strength.
What did Sisyphus want to do?
What was his punishment?
Sispyhus wanted to steal immortality, but the gods got very mad.
He got punished by having to fo the same taks every day, which was pushing a boulder up a mountain and when he was close it would fall down.
What did his mom do?
How did he die?
He was the greatest warrior in Ancient Greece
When he was a baby his mother dipped him in a river so he could become immortal, it worked except his heel wasn't because that is were he was held from.
Achille got killed by an arrow shot by the trojan prince Paris, versions of the story said Apollo guided the arrow in his heel.
Who was Dionysus?
What he married to?
What was his main myth?
God of wine and festivities
Married to Ariadne.
His main myth was that Hera got mad at Dionysus and ripped in pieces then Rhea gathered his pieces and brought them back to life.
What was Erebus?
Erebus was between the mortal and underworld. Dead souls pass in Erebus on the way down to the underworld.
What was Cerebus?
What did he do?
Cerebus was a giant headed dog.
He guarded the underworld and made sure living people wouldn't enter and dead people would not escape.
What did Tantalaus do?
What was his punishment?
Tantalaus tricked the gods to come over then tried to serve them his own son that he cooked.
His punishment was that he was put in a well and there was food right above him but he could not eat it.
What were Hercules labors?
1. Slay the Nemean lion
2. Slay the 9 headed Lerenean Hydra
3. Capture the Golden hind of Artemis
4.Capture the Erymathian Boar
5. Clean the Augean stables in one day
6.slay the Stymphaian birds
7. Capture the Cretan bull
8. Steal the mares of diamonds
9. Obtain the birdie of Hippolyta, queen of the amazons
10. Obtain the cattle of the monster Geryon.
11. Steal the apples of the Hesperides
12. Capture and bring back Cereberus