Roman Names
Identify the Roman name for Zeus
What is Jupiter?
Fill in the blank: Myths are ___________________ but Greeks used to
believe they were true.
What is fiction?
The god of the underworld.
Who is Hades?
The goddess who is extremely jealous when her husband cheats on her?
Who is Hera?
Identify where most of the Greek gods live.
What is Mt. Olympus?
This Greek god is named after the fourth planet from the sun.
Who is Mars or Ares?
To explain the unexplainable.
The god and goddess of war?
Athena and Ares.
The only god with a disability, a limp.
Who is Hephaestus?
Identify what Zeus' father did to prevent his children from overpowering him?
What its he swallowed them as babies?
This Greek God is often portrayed with her daughter Persephone and is the cause of winter when she is depressed because she is missing her.
Who is Demeter or Ceres?
Identify one question a myth might have answered for the Greeks.
Answers include:
How was the World created?
Where do we go after we die?
Why are there four separate seasons?
Why do we fall in love?
How was fire created, and why do we have it?
The goddess of Hearth and Home.
Who is Hestia?
The god and goddess who are twins.
Who are Artemis and Apollo?
Identify why the Peacock's feathers look the way they do.
Because Argus' (Hera's servant) died and in memory of him she put his 100 eyes on the peacock, so now it is extremely beautiful.
This Greek god was called Bacchus by the Roman's.
Who is Dionysus?
Myths include this element that involves gods being immortal or having special powers.
What is super natural elements?
Identify Hera's realm.
What is marriage and Queen of the gods.
Identify one characteristic of Poseidon.
What are violent, moody, restless, anti-social?
Identify the aspect of nature that Poseidon causes.
-Earthquakes-when he struck the ground with his Trident.
-Storms in the water when he was angry.
-Horses- to look like breaking waves
This Greek Gods symbol is the peacock.
Who is Juno or Hera?
Identify TWO common characteristics of gods in Greek mythology.
Because Greeks focused on being grandiose, the Olympian gods were portrayed as physically strong, extremely beautiful, and intelligent.
They were also extremely flawed. They were portrayed as unforgiving, jealous, vengeful, spiteful, and sinful.
They mirror humans in physical form and feelings.
The messenger of the gods.
Who is Hermes?
The only god without parents.
Who is Aphrodite?
Explain what caused Greek Mythology to no longer be a popular and practiced religion among the Greeks.
What is Christianity was introduced and became prominent as a religion?