It's All Greek
To Me
To Me
What the Heck?!
Heros & Monsters
Religious
Myths
Myths
Literature
Motifs
Why it
Matters
Matters
100
The King of Ithaca who traveled 20 years after the Trojan War.
Who is Odysseus?
100
Christian mythology directly inherited many of the narratives from the Jewish people, sharing in common the narratives from this book.
What is the Old Testament
100
God of the Underworld in Greek Mythology.
Who is Hades?
100
40 days and 40 nights.
What is the number of days G-d flooded the earth?
100
This literary masterpiece is based on the Odyssey and takes place over one day in Dublin on June 16, 1904.
What is Ulysses by James Joyce?
100
This mythic motif is often portrayed in coming of age stories where the child gives up childhood dependency and takes on responsibility.
What is the Hero’s Journey? It is often used by writers as a template for stories.
100
These provide a framework for understanding the world, reflecting core values and beliefs, explaining origins, and shaping social norms.
What are myths?
200
This Greek Goddess was associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation.
Who is Aphrodite?
200
This is what Jesus, Osiris, Lazurus, Persephone, Dionysus, Attis, Manabozho, Quetzalcóatl and Huitzilopochtli all have in common.
What is resurrection?
200
Also known as a Gorgon, this monster had living snakes in her hair and was so hideous that those who looked at her turned to stone.
Who is Medusa?
200
This happened over seven days, on the back of a turtle, within a golden egg, from the abyss, or with a big bang?
What is creation (or good grief)?
200
Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker recounts this famous Greek conquest from the perspective of the women in the town.
What is the fall of Troy?
200
He was a famous professor at Sarah Lawrence college who is credited with popularizing the concept of the hero’s journey as found in myths, religions and creative works.
Who is Joseph Campbell who wrote The Hero with a Thousand Faces?
200
These offer comfort and meaning through stories that explore universal human experiences like birth, death, good vs. evil, and the nature of existence.
What are myths?
300
This action was known as the cause of the Trojan War.
What was when Paris the Prince of Troy stole Helena from the Greeks?
300
Jewish mysticism and what Madonna follows.
What is the Kabbalah? add info about it
300
This Aztec God was the creator deity that contributed essentially to the creation of mankind and often appeared as a feathered serpent.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
300
The first woman created for a companion for Adam in the Garden of Eden.
Who was Lilith? Lilith was Adam’s first wife, before Eve. When Adam insisted she play a subservient role, Lilith grew wings and flew away from Eden.
300
Madeline Miller’s book Circe is about the daughter of a god. In this famous story Circe turned sailors into a pack of pigs.
What is the Odyssey?
300
This 1970s sci-fi mega hit was directly inspired by Joseph Campbell’s concept of a hero’s journey.
What is Star Wars?
300
These essentially act as a narrative lens through which people interpret their lives and the world around them.
What are myths?
400
This God of the Sky and Thunder was also known as the King of the Gods on Mount Olympus.
Who is Zeus?
400
In this people’s creation myth, the world was created when the pregnant Sky Woman fell from the floating island in the sky into the ocean where birds and fish helped her create the Earth by giving her soil to put on a giant turtle's back
Who are the Iroquois? This myth is beautifully retold in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s, Braiding Sweetgrass.
400
This mythical creature has ancient roots in Japanese mythology and is often associated with nuclear weapons.
400
These heavenly beings descended to earth and inbred with humans.
Who are the Nephalim? (we would accept Aliens also)
400
This debut fantasy novel retells the legend of Chang’e, the Chinese moon goddess, who spends her childhood on the moon, hidden from a vengeful emperor who is angry at her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality.
What is Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan?
400
Tom Sawyer, Bugs Bunny, Loki, Anansi, Coyote, the Chesire Cat are all examples of this world myth archetype.
What is The Trickster?
400
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Writers employ this technique to describe an already existing myth in a new way. For example, in Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis explored the Greek myth of Cupid/Eros/Psyche and reworked it to explore themes in a Christian light; divine entity, human nature, love, injustice.
500
Known as the greatest Greek Warrior, he was the hero of the Trojan War, and invulnerable except in this one body part. 2011 novel by American writer Madeline Miller
Who is Achilles (and it was his heal)?
500
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This ancient Hindu text teaches that the soul is immortal and at death it is reborn in another body, or, for those who have fully grasped the true teachings, it achieves nirvana—that is, freedom from the wheel of rebirth.
500
First appearing in Greek literature, this hairy beast appears in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and has starred in numerous Hollywood films.
What is a werewolf?
500
The name of the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible composed of the Torah (Instruction/Law), the Nevi’im (Prophets) and the Ketuvim (Writings)?
What is the Tanakh? (extra points if you can pronounce this correctly). It is also an acronym of Torah/Nevi’im and Ketuvim.
500
Three ways writers use myths to tell stories in new ways.
What is:
1. Taking the viewpoint of a secondary character and retell the myth from a new perspective.
2. Telling the myth through a diverse lens
3. Modernizing the myth
500
These are at least three soul-sucking flying guys that appear in literature.
Who are Dementors from Harry Potter, Ringwraiths from Lord of the Rings, Soul Eaters from Marvel and Vampires from Dracula?
500
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Middle-earth is an example of this, serving as a direct influence in the creation of Valar. Tolkien also drew inspiration from Atlantis, the Norse legend Sigurd the dragon-slayer, and the Finnish legend Kulervo.
What is modern fantasy genre?