Love Stories
This character falls in love with himself!
Achilles
Which character is the young girl?
Thisbe
Where do the Gods live?
Mount Olympus
What is Zeus's most powerful weapon?
lightning
This goddess's love for her daughter led her to turn the world into a barren, cold winter when her daughter was taken from her.
Demeter
I have snakes for hair and can turn men to stone. I'm so fearsome they had to send a great hero to defeat me.
Medusa
What did Hercules wrestle as a baby that demonstrated his strength?
Two snakes
What is Tartarus?
Deepest region of the underworld where the worst offenders (such as the hundred-handers) are sent.
Who were Zeus's parents?
Cronos & Rhea
Eager to see what her husband looks like, this character tries to secretly peek, even though she's been told not to, and is sent away.
Psyche
Although many of my actions were heroic, when I forgot to hoist the white sail on my way home, I caused the death of my father.
Theseus
How do Pyramus and Thisbe form their plan to meet?
By speaking through a crack in the wall.
A word that means a rival -- an enemy
nemesis
How did Rhea trick Zeus?
Wrapped a stone in a blanket and passes it off as the new baby. Cronus swallows the baby.
This poor nymph angers Hera and as a punishment loses her ability to say anything other than the last thing she heard.
Echo
Every day an eagle descends and eats my liver as my punishment for stealing fire for humankind.
Prometheus
What does the mulberry symbolize in the story of Pyramus and Thisbe?
The berries were white before the death of Pyramus and turned red with his blood. The change symbolizes their love.
The type of heaven or paradise
Elysian Fields
How is Zeus similar to his father?
He, like his father, wants to be the most powerful.
This character is allowed to retrieve his wife from the underworld, but when he fails to follow the one condition, he loses her forever.
Orpheus
Who gives Zeus the gift of the power of lightning and why do they give this gift?
The Cyclops give him the gift after he rescues them from Tartarus where Cronus had imprisoned them.
Name three of Hercules' Labors.
Hydra
Nemean Lion
Boar
Stables
Cerberus
Bull
Based on the half-bird half-human creatures, this word (a verb) means to talk in a negative, non-stop way.
Harp
What can a visitor to Delphi see that is believed to be from the story of Zeus?
The stone that Cronus vomited up.