Symbols of the Gods
Greek Mythology Today
8 Characteristics of Myths
Who?
Comparing Myths
100
A Lightning Bolt
Who is Zeus?
100
The name of a sports equipment company that is named after the goddess of victory
What is Nike?
100
Cronos eats his children
What is myths are violent?
100
Quail or Swan
What did Zeus turn Leto into?
100
Goes on a quest to get the oracle in one myth, and goes on a quest to kill Python and ends up getting oracle too.
Who is Apollo?
200
A Trident
Who is Poseidon?
200
The god who is associated with messenger services
Who is Hermes?
200
Myths attempt to explain natural phenomena: Seasons
What is Demeter and Persephone's myth?
200
Stole cattle within minutes of being born
Who is Hermes?
200
Absent in HGM, but found in D'aulaires
Who is Ares?
300
A Deer
Who is Artemis?
300
A city in the U.S. that has many buildings modeled after greek architecture
What is Washington D.C.?
300
One example of a myth that contains many gods, who are the gods?
All of the myths we've studied so far are acceptable answers.
300
Poseidon created them for Demeter
What are horses?
300
In both books this god/goddess has a jealous streak
Who is Hera?
400
A Hammer
Who is Hephaestus?
400
Cosmetic companies bearing this goddesses name
Who is Aphrodite?
400
Gods have ___________
What are magical powers, or superhuman powers
400
Flung from the top of Olympus
Who is Hephaestus?
400
Zeus was raised...
In a cave with a goat, or by a sheparding family.
500
Hearth and Home
Who Hestia?
500
Two intertwined snakes around a winged staff, usually associated with medicine in the U.S.
What is a Caduceus, Hermes's symbol?
500
Artemis turning Actaeon into a stag
What is good is rewarded and evil is punished?
500
A Hundred-handed one, and a hundred eyed servant
Who are Briarres and Argus?
500
A place reserved for the very best, who lived three good lifetimes.
What is the Isle of the Best.
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