Vocabulary
What does it mean to resist?
To not want to do something
What does it mean if something is mythical?
Theseus and the Minotaur
I am the biggest and strongest giant who holds up the sky as a punishment from Zeus. Who am I?
Atlas
It's very interesting.
Having a lion's body and the face/neck of a woman, I sit outside of the city of Thebes and eat every person who tries to enter if they cannot solve my riddle correctly. Who am I?
The sphinx
What does it mean for someone to give you guidance?
To give someone advice or to help them out.
If something is described as Herculean, what does that mean?
something really hard/ requires physical strength
In the Greek Myth "Arachne the Weaver", what did the main character learn?
1. Use your gifts ****
2. Never give up
I am unhappy with Atalanta for making a joke out of love. Who am I?
Aphrodite
What is an arachnid? What story did this word come from?
A spider; Arachne the Weaver
What was the role of Princess Ariadne and Icarus in the story "Theseus and the Minotaur"?
To help Theseus defeat the minotaur without King Minus finding out.
What did the Greek myth Theseus and the Minotaur, try to explain?
How the Aegean Sea got its name.
What is it that walks on four feet in the morning, two feet in the afternoon and three feet in the evening?
What is a myth?
A fictional story from long ago used to explain events in nature or taught people how to behave.
What were the tasks that Hercules had to complete in the myth "The Other Adventures of Hercules"?
1. To defeat the Nemean Lion
2. Bring the King 3 golden apples of Hesperides
What Ancient Greeks used the story "Prometheus and Pandora" to explain what two important things?
1. How people/ animals came to the world.
2. How sorrow/ suffering came into the world.
I did not listen to my father and fell to my death. Who am I?
Icarus