Mythical Figures
The Hero's Journey
Heroes
Myths of Man
Potpourri
100
This legendary inventor created wings and the Labyrinth.
What is Daedalus?
100
Heracles's twelve labors represent this stage of the monomyth.
What is Road of Trials?
100
This hero killed the Minotaur.
What is Theseus?
100
This Titan was mankind's teacher, punished by Zeus for stealing fire.
What is Prometheus?
100
This myth explains why we have seasons.
What is Demeter and Persephone?
200
This woman was so beautiful, she was punished by Aphrodite.
What is Psyche?
200
Theseus experiences this monomyth stage twice.
What is Atonement with the Father?
200
Hera attempted to kill this hero with snakes when he was just a baby.
What is Heracles?
200
All but hope was released by this woman.
What is Pandora?
200
When Greece was matriarchal, this figure was sacrificed.
What is the sacred king?
300
This man judges a music competition featuring Pan and is punished for his judgment.
What is Midas?
300
When Heracles is granted immortality, he achieves this stage of the Hero's journey.
What is Ultimate Boon? or Mastery of Two Worlds?
300
This hero's mother was locked in a room to prevent her becoming pregnant.
What is Perseus?
300
This king disrespected Zeus so greatly that the god decided to destroy mankind.
What is Lycaon?
300
She eventually adopted Heracles as her son.
What is Hera?
400
Medusa belongs to this group of mythological creatures.
What is the Gorgons?
400
Perseus benefits from this stage of the monomyth when a group of nymphs loan him winged sandals, a leather bag, and an invisibility helmet
What is Meeting with the Goddess?
400
This god and this king are the two "fathers" of Theseus.
What is Aegeus and Poseidon?
400
This legendary musician lost his wife to the Underworld twice.
What is Orpheus?
400
Perseus's call to adventure comes from this king.
What is Polydectes?
500
These two people were saved when Zeus flooded the world and were charged with repopulating it.
What is Deucalion and Pyrrha?
500
Theseus achieves Mastery of Two Worlds because he gains honor in these two Greek cities.
What is Crete and Athens?
500
When Perseus causes this man's death, it is proof that man cannot escape this fate.
What is Acrisius?
500
The myth of Narcissus describes these two natural phenomena.
What are echoes and the narcissus flower?
500
This hero experiences this stage of the monomyth cycle when he kills his children and exiles himself.
What is Heracles and Belly of the Whale?
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