Vocabulary
Characteristics of a Myth
Myth Characters
Myth Characters/Places
Vocabulary 2
100

A character that is half bull and half man.  What am I?

What is a minotaur?

100

I am a story that is fiction and has gods and goddesses?

What is myth?

100
I am the biggest and strongest giant who holds up the sky as punishment from Zeus.

Who is Atlas?

100

I brought a box of troubles to the world.

Who is Pandora?

100

I am how someone feels when they are told they are beautiful and the best person in the whole world.  

What is flattered?

200

The name of the maze that Theseus had to go in.

What is a labyrinth?

200

In a myth you might read about me?

What is a god or goddess?

- a mythical creature?

- hero?

200
A mythical creature with a lion's body and the face and neck of a woman.  I sit outside of a Greek city asking riddles.

Who is a Sphinx?

200

I am a person that had 12 tasks or labors to do for King Eurystheus.  

Who is Hercules?

200

I am what someone has to have to prove something is correct.  

What is proof?

300

A mythical creature.

What is a minotaur or a sphinx?

300

I am not a true story.  I am a story with gods and goddesses, mythical creatures, and humans.  

What is a myth?

300

I am the one who gave humans fire and got chained to a mountain.  


Who is Prometheus?

300

I was the son that did not listen to my father and fell to the ocean?

Who is Icarus?

300

We are a group of people watching a football game.  

What are spectators?

400

 Is holding up the sky a herculean task or an amusing task

What is a herculean task?

400

I can live forever and have supernatural powers.

Who is a god, goddesses, or immortal.  (student says one of these)

400

I am a very strong man who sought help from Apollo to learn how to control my own temper.

Who is Hercules?

400

I believed I was a better weaver than the goddess Athena.

Who is Arachne?

400

I am what happens to a sweater that gets caught on a nail.  

What is unraveled?

500

Wandering around without a purpose or plan would be wandering aimlessly or with guidance

What is aimlessly?

500

I am not a real story. You would say I am this.  

What is fiction?

500

I am the king that lived on the Island of Crete and had a pet in a labyrinth.  

Who is King Minos?

500

I am where Zeus and the other gods and goddesses live.

What is Mount Olympus?

500

I am what a dog does when he goes and gets a stick.  

What is retrieve?