Mythical Figures
The Hero's Journey
Heroes
Myths of Man
Potpourri
100
This legendary inventor created wings and the Labyrinth.
Who is Daedalus?
100
The 12 labors of Heracles represent this stage of the hero's journey.
What is the Road of Trials?
100
This hero killed the Minotaur.
Who is Theseus?
100
This figure was mankind's teacher, punished by Zeus for stealing fire.
Who is Prometheus?
100
This myth explains why we have seasons.
What is Demeter and Persephone?
200
This person was the son of Helius, god of the Sun.
Who is Phaethon?
200
The retrieval of this item represents Jason's Ultimate Boon.
What is the Golden Fleece?
200
Hera attempted to kill this hero with serpents when he was just an infant.
Who is Heracles?
200
All but hope was released by this woman.
Who is Pandora?
200
When Greece was matriarchal, this figure was sacrificed.
What is the sacred king?
300
This man created a statue and fell in love with it.
Who is Pygmalion?
300
Theseus is the only hero to experience this monomyth stage twice.
What is Atonement with the Father?
300
This hero displayed excellence in organization.
Who is Jason?
300
This king disrespected Zeus so greatly that the god chose to destroy all mankind.
Who is King Lycaon?
300
She was the mother of Dionysus.
Who is Semele?
400
Medusa belongs to this group of mythical creatures.
What are the Gorgons?
400
When Heracles is granted immortality, it represents this stage of the hero's journey.
What is Mastery of Two Worlds?
400
This god and this king are the two "fathers" of Theseus.
Who are Poseidon and Aegeus?
400
This myth, featuring a legendary musician, makes the point that the gods require man's faith.
What is Orpheus and Eurydice?
400
This hero dies in a most un-heroic way.
Who is Jason?
500
These two people were saved when Zeus flooded the earth and were responsible for repopulating it.
Who are Deucalion and Pyrrha?
500
The Perseus myth displays Mastery of Two Worlds for this reason.
What is Perseus flies to his destination and kills Medusa on land, meaning he masters both land and sky.
500
Upon Perseus's return to King Polydectes with the head of Medusa, this man's death exemplifies the idea that man cannot escape his fate.
Who is Acrisius, Perseus's grandfather?
500
The myth of Narcissus explains these two natural phenomena.
What are echoes and the narcissus flower?
500
This hero experiences this stage of the monomyth after killing his children and exiling himself.
Who is Heracles? What is the Belly of the Whale?
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