Ummm...things you should know
Myths are passed down between generations to entertain and to transmit cultural messages. What does the term cultural message mean?
an important lesson about life that reflects the values and beliefs of the culture that created the myth
If you're American but prefer British spellings of words, like colour and fibre, or have all the British monarchs memorized, or insist on ordering things like "bubble and squeak" when you go to restaurants, you're an __________.
Anglophile
Power
Why does Atalanta return to our land and family sad?
She has lost her only love, Meleager.
I will forever be a recluse after having spent weeks among terrible human beings. Just call me a _____.
misanthrope
Define deference.
With all the deference due to the friend of a god Midas treated this disreputable old pedagogue, and for ten days and nights on end he feasted him royally.
humble submission and respect
He was disgusted by the way the group bashed the woman. His ______ would never allow him to behave in such a way. He loved women and everything about them.
philogyny
Which god gives Midas his power?
Double the points if you can tell why this god grants Midas this power.
Bacchus
deep gratitude for his care of Silenus
But Meleager, the hero who loved her and her fair honour more than life itself, and whose love had made him haste in all his gallant strength and youthful beauty to the land of the Shades.
What is the land of the Shades?
the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld
She never dreamed of a wedding as a little girl. She never thought she would wear a wedding dress or say 'I do'. As a ______, she hated the thought of marriage.
misogamy
Define ineffable.
With scorn ineffable the sun-god turned upon Midas, his peasant’s face transfigured by his proud decision.
too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words
beyond description, marvelous, unutterable, astonishing
Monique's _______ prevents her from going to social events where there are people she does not know.
xenophobia
He touched an apple whose cheek grew rosy in the sun, and at once it became like the golden fruit in the Garden of the Hesperides. The stone pillars of his palace as he brushed past them on entering, blazed like a sunset sky. The gods had not deceived him. Midas had the Golden Touch.
How does he celebrate and what is the outcome.
But when Midas, with the healthy appetite of the peasant-born, would have eaten largely of the savoury food that his cooks prepared, he found that his teeth only touched roast kid to turn it into a slab of gold, that garlic lost its flavour and became gritty as he chewed, that rice turned into golden grains, and curdled milk became a dower fit for a princess, entirely unnegotiable for the digestion of man. Baffled and miserable, Midas seized his cup of wine, but the red wine had become one with the golden vessel that held it; nor could he quench his thirst, for even the limpid water from the fountain was melted gold when it touched his dry lips. Only for a very few days was Midas able to bear the affliction of his wealth. There was nothing now for him to live for. He could buy the whole earth if he pleased, but even children shrank in terror from his touch, and hungry and thirsty and sick at heart he wearily dragged along his weighty robes of gold.
What was a suitor's penalty for losing to Atalanta?
If indeed they love me as thou sayest,” said Atalanta to her father, “then must they be ready to face for my sake even the loss of dear life itself. I shall be the prize of him who outruns me in a foot-race. But he who tries and fails, must pay to Death his penalty.”
The old folks were set in their ways. They opposed the new technology and the new head of security's ideas. They felt they were doing just fine with what they already had. They had _____.
misoneism
What is the theme of King Midas and the Golden Touch?
His ______ comes from a traumatic event when he was a young child. He was bit by a dog and contracted rabies.
hydrophobia
Why is Midas referred to as a tragic comedian of mythology?
Double the points if you can explain in detail.
He does not learn his lesson the first time.
What is the name of Atalanta's cousin and what is his dilemma?
Milanion.
He would fain have hated Atalanta for her ruthlessness and her joyousness as he saw his friends die for her sake, yet daily her beauty, her purity, and her gallant unconsciousness took a firmer hold upon his heart.
You must be kidding. I have not met a middle schooler who suffers from ______. They will argue about anything.
misology
Why do we study greek and latin prefixes and roots?
Duh!
Due to her ________, she spends her days being the life of the party. She hates to be alone.
Why and how does Apollo punish Midas?
And all the beauty of the world grew more beautiful, and all its terror grew yet more grim, and still Pan piped on, and laughed to see the nymphs and the fauns first dance in joyousness and then tremble in fear, and the buds to blossom, and the stags to bellow in their lordship of the hills. When he ceased, it was as though a tensely-drawn string had broken, and all the earth lay breathless and mute.
No longer was there strife, or any dispeace. No more was there fierce warring between the actual and the unknown.
The ears of a donkey
Name the goddess that helps to bring Atlanta defeat and how does she do it?
Aphrodite
Milanion obeyed the bidding of Aphrodite and let fall one of the golden apples. Never before had Atalanta dreamed of such a thing – an apple of glistening gold! She stopped, poised on one foot as a flying bird poises for a moment on the wing, and picked up the treasure.
His ________ causes him to hate the idea of a woman being stronger than or smarter than a man, particularly himself.
misogyny