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Greek Stories and Heroes
Idioms from Ancient Greece
Words that come from Greek Stories
Greek and Latin Roots 1
Greek and Latin Roots 2
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He was known as the King of the Gods
Who was Zeus?
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A Sisyphean task.
What is a task that is boring, painful, thankless, and must be completed over and over again.
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Narcissist
What is a person who is in love with him/her self
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Biology, Sociology, Astrology, Reflexology all contain the root "ology" which means
What is "the study of"
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suicide, homicide, patricide, matricide, and fratricide all contain the suffix "cide" which means
What is "to kill"
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He is best known for his long journey home.
Who is Odysseus
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A phrase used to describe a secret weapon
What is a Trojan Horse
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The word echo comes from
Who was the nymph Echo, cursed by Hera to only be able to copy the words of others but never speak for herself.
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astrology, astronomy, asteroid, astrological, and asterisk all come from the root "aster" which means
What is star
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audiotape, audiologist, audition, audiometer, and audio-book all come from the root "audio" which means
What is "to hear"
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She was born from the ocean.
Who was Aphrodite?
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A long journey with many adventures along the way.
What is an Odyssey
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Tantalize means
What is to tempt a person and not give them what they want. This comes from the story of Tantalus.
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transport, transcend, transcript, transit, translate, transpose all come from the prefix "trans" which means
What is across
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contradict, dictation, dictator, dictionary, diction, dictum, and predict, all come from the root "dict" which means
What is "to say"
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She sprang fully formed from her father's head.
Who was Athena?
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A point of weakness
What is an Achilles Heel?
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Another word for maze is
What is Labyrinth from the story of the Minotaur
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Transcript, script, scribe, transcribe, circumscribe, subscription, and prescription, all come from the same root "script" which means
What is is write?
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omnivorous, omnipotent, and omniscient, all come from the root "omni" meaning
What is "all"
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He fashioned, in the image of his wife, the woman responsible for all the world's sorrows.
Who was Hephaestus.
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A person who gives their life to help others. Dr. Martin Luther King is often an example of this.
What is a modern day Prometheus.
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patricide, paternal, pater-noster, patrician, and patriarch all come from the root word "pater" which means
What is father.
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Philadelphia, bibliophile, philanthropist, philosophy, pedophile, philharmonic, and Anglophile all come from the root "phil" which means
What is "love"