In the Beginning
Mother Earth's name Hint: She fell in love with Uranus
Who was Gaia?
Zeus is the ruler of.....?
What is the land and sky?
Athena is the goddess of...
What is war and wisdom?
Icarus and his father Daedelus (who killed his nephew were ____________in a tower on the island of Crete.
What is imprisoned?
What is Mount Olympus?
Who was Uranus?
This is Zeus's trademark symbol given to him by the Cyclops.
What is a lightning bolt?
Both Athena and Poseidon (Athena's uncle) claimed this city.
What is Athens?
Daedalus was a brilliant _______ and ______ (1 or 2)
What is architect and inventor?
A traditional ancient story often containing gods, heroes, and supernatural beings.
What is a myth?
The three creatures born to Gaia and Uranus who had one eye in the middle of their forehead.
Who are the Cyclops?
She is the wife of Zeus.
Who is Hera?
To decide who should claim Athens, Athena decided she and Poseidon should give the town a _______.
What is gift?
This is the king who imprisoned Daedalus and his son.
Who is King Minos?
Myths can tell how the universe began and ...Name 3 more things
What is explain something in nature, teach a lesson, help us learn a value?
The youngest Titan son who took revenge (for Gaia) on his father, Uranus, for banishing his siblings, the Cyclops, and giants with 150 arms.
Who is Chronos?
Name one character trait that describes Zeus.
Varied answers, cheater, mischievous, dishonest...
Poseidon gave the town the gift of water, but it turned out to be __________.
What is salt water?
This is what Daedalus created to trap the minotaur.
What is a labyrinth?
True or false: The Ionian Sea is named after the river nymph, Io.
True
The youngest child of Rhea and Chronos' whom Chronos did not swallow and eventually took defeated his father with the help of the Cyclops and giants and some of the Titans.
Who is Zeus?
When Zeus fell in love with Io, he turned her into a_______so Hera would not find out.
What is a cow?
Athena gave Athens and _____________ tree which would provide food, shelter, and oil.
What is olive?
What is he flew too close to the son or did not listen to his father?
Name your favorite myth in this unit.
Varied answers.