Prometheus
Prometheus questions why Zeus did not give the race of man
What is Knowledge?
What does Icarus want to know more about?
What is the sun?
Icarus devised a plan to escape Crete by building
What are wings?
What do Odysseus and his men find in and around the cave?
Farm animals, Food, A large stone wall
Who is Odysseus referring to when he yells to Polyphemus, “So he was not such a weakling after all”?
Himself
What does Prometheus seem to feel that humans should be?
Different from the beasts
Who imprisoned Daedalus and Icarus?
King Minos
What feeling came over Icarus as he flew through the air?
Freedom
What is the cave meant to be?
A home for a giant
Why does Polyphemus groan when Odysseus tells him his real name?
There was a prophecy that a man with this name would blind him.
Prometheus gives human beings some advice about using fire. What does he not explain?
How to start it
What was used to bind the wings to Icarus’s back?
Wax
“Do not fly too low or the spray will wet you your wings, not too high or the sun will melt them. Not too high and not too low, but close by me, through the middle air.”
Who is Daedalus?
Once the giant and the animals are inside the cave, what is the first thing the giant does?
He closes the entrance with a huge stone.
At the end of the passage, how does Odysseus’s crew seem to feel about him?
They honor him
Zeus claims that “man is happy.” What does he say is the cause of human beings’ happiness?
They do not know they have anything to be unhappy about.
How did Icarus die?
He drowned.
What feeling does Icarus display?
What is Arrogance?
Why does Odysseus decide that killing the giant “would seal our own fate as well as his”?
He knows the men can’t move the stone that seals the entrance.
Odysseus says, "The gods have __________ you for all the __________ things you have done in the past, Polyphemus."
punished, bad
Zeus says that humans have “a vaunting pride that needs little sustenance to make it swell to giant size.” What does he mean by that?
With very little encouragement, human beings could become too proud
Why did Daedalus build the labyrinth?
To hold the Minotaur.
Icarus responds to his father this way.
He disobeys him.
What does the Cyclops offer Odysseus in return for the wine Odysseus gives him?
The chance to be eaten last, after all the rest
Once the giant and the animals are inside the cave, what is the first thing the giant does?
He closes the entrance with a huge stone.