Characters
He had to do twelve labors to right many wrongs
Hercules
He created the animals
Epimetheus
This is another word for a maze
labyrinth
This is something that is very funny
amusing
She turned herself into an old woman
Athena
She was too curious and opened the box
Pandora
She wandered away from her mom
Persephone
A very hard word for a spider
Arachnid
to go back and fetch something
retrieve
He is the king of the underworld
Hades
He created the humans
Prometheus
He was a mean king who wanted to punish young Athenians
King Minos
This is a made up story with gods, goddesses and wild creatures
Myth
how you feel when someone gives you a nice compliment
flattered
She is the goddess of the harvest and she loved her daughter very much
Demeter
He went too close to the sun
Icarus
He designed the labyrinth
This is a word that means something is VERY difficult, and it sounds like a character from our myths
Herculean
if you pull on a ball of yarn, this might happen
unraveling
He did not want the humans to have fire
Zeus
She was a very good weaver-but not better than Athena!
Arachne
He forgot to change the sails to white
Theseus
These are people who watch an event, like a game or concert
spectators
This is the word that means you don't do something even though you really want to
resist
He made Hades give Persephone back to her mother for six months a year
Zeus