Vocabulary
Human beings are this, meaning that they do not live forever.
What is mortal?
This is the King of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
Zeus trapping Typhon the lava monster under Mount Aetna explains this mystery.
Why do volcanoes happen?
This son of Prometheus created men out of stone.
Who is Deucalion?
This god of the sea carried a trident, or a three-pronged spear.
Who is Poseidon?
The gods and goddesses of the myths could not die because they were this.
What is immortal?
This Queen of the gods is the goddess of marriage and family.
Who is Hera?
In the Greek myth that explains the creation of the world, this earth goddess was born out of chaos.
Who is Gaea?
Zeus turned Io into this animal to hide her from his wife, Hera.
What is a cow?
These three sisters could see the future and knew all about the lives of mortals and immortals (they were also in a scene in the Disney movie Hercules)
Who are the Fates?
Athena punished Arachne for being this word, which means she was too proud of herself, or thought too highly of herself.
What is vain?
This god ruled the underworld.
Who is Hades?
Hera gave male peacocks their beautiful tail pattern to honor this guard that she cared about deeply.
Who is Argus?
Rhea hid Zeus away from this Titan, her husband, so that he wouldn't eat Zeus.
Who is Cronus?
These two were the only twins we learned about who lived on Mount Olympus.
Who are Apollo and Artemis?
This word means the children, grand children, great grand children, etc. of a person. It's also the name of a movie musical that was on the Disney channel featuring the children of some famous Disney villains.
What are descendants?
This was the messenger of the gods, and he was very cunning/smart.
Who is Hermes?
This Titan created humans out of clay.
Who is Prometheus?
This goddess is the wife of Hades. She spends half of the year in the underworld, and half of the year with her mother.
Who is Persephone?
Hades had a three-headed dog named this.
What is Cerberus?
Zeus had armor that was this word, which means it could not be broken.
What is impenetrable?
This goddess had a daughter named Persephone.
Who is Demeter?
According to the Hera myth we read, the kings and queens of Egypt are descendants of this mortal.
Who is Io?
Pandora was married to this Titan, who was the brother of Prometheus.
Who is Epimetheus?
This god of blacksmiths was married to Aphrodite.
Who is Hephaestus?