Majors
Three questions in one:
Goddess of the Harvest?
God of War?
God of theater and wine?
Demeter
Ares
Dionysus
Prometheus wanted to give ________ to the humans.
FIRE
*he was punished severely for going behind Zeus' back
Orion, in some myths humble and in some myths boastful, ultimately got stung by a ______________________________ and died.
*except in the myth where Artemis shot him by accident.
SCORPION
*So Scorpio- the constellation- chases Orion across the night sky.
Daedalus, an architect and inventor, gave wings to his son to help him __________________________.
Fly out of the prison where they were being held captive.
Why was Tantalus punished so severely by the gods?
He sacrificed his son and fed him to the gods as a feast!!!!!
Three questions:
Give symbols for these three gods:
Athena
Hestia
Hermes
Symbols=
Athena- owl, olive branch, sword and shield, born fully adult
Hestia= fire, hearth, family
Hermes= winged sandals, cairns, caduceus
The myth involving Pandora warns mortals against....
insatiable curiosity and temptation
Pandora couldn't help but open the box...she let miseries out into the world but held onto HOPE.
Artemis- but her brother, Apollo, was jealous of the relationship and Orion's boastful hunting.
Sisiphus was not punished until the Underworld. When he finally died of old age, the gods forced him to ________________________
push a boulder up a giant hill, only to have it roll right back down again. This myth shows that mortals can, in fact, fool the gods, but, in the end, justice will be served.
After Dionysus helped Midas get rid fo the golden touch, what other god did Midas anger?
Apollo- and Apollo gave him donkey ears as a punishment.
Name their sibling:
Apollo
Selene
Athena
Apollo and Artemis
Selene, Eos and Helios
Athena and Ares
Pan fell in love with ____________
Pandemic comes from pan
Echo!
Sadly, she did not return his feelings. She only had eyes for Narcissus.
Pandemic- is a disease spanning the whole world
The oracle at Delphi, located at the ______________________ according to ancient Greeks, meets with visitors- or supplicants- ______________ months out of the year.
Located at the center of the universe, the oracle meets nine months out of the year, one day each month.
Oedipus tried his best to outrun a prophecy that he would:
kill his father and fall in love with his mother!!!
What does Eos' myth explain?
The origin of the grasshopper
Name their spouse:
Zeus
Aphrodite
Hades
Zeus= Metis and then Hera (and many mortals!!)
Aphrodite= Hephaestus
Hades= Persephone
Echo lost her ability to chatter because she tricked ________________ in order to cover for Zeus.
Hera
Hera was so angry that she took Echo's ability to speak away- leaving her to repeat everything others said instead.
You need to pay a ___________ to ___________, the ferryman, in order to cross the River ___________ into the underworld.
coin to Charon to get across the River Styx
Shakespeare borrows from this myth with many of his plays. An oedipal complex in psychology must mean:
You must feel love for one parent and nothing but anger towards another...not a healthy term
Helios shares his reign over the sun with ________________, who can also drive the chariot to help the sun rise and set.
Apollo- god of music and light
Name their sidekick
Ares
Aphrodite
Hephaestus
Ares= Eris
Aphrodite= Eros
Hephaestus= cyclops
Narcissus fell in love with ______________ instead of noticing Echo. If you are a narcissist, you ___________________________
He fell in love with HIS REFLECTION
**a narcissist loves themselves over all others.
Orpheus, the son of the muse Calliope, was told that he could reunite with his wife if he did not ____________________ before returning to earth/above ground.
He was not supposed to look back. This is another example of a myth that cautions mortals to have faith in the gods and to trust their judgments.
How did Daedalus survive but Icarus perish in the story?
Icarus flew too close to the sun. Similar to the tale of Helios and Phaeton, Icarus wanted something that was beyond his mortal reach, but he tried to do it anyway!
Selene, similar to her sister, Eos, fell in love with a mortal. Instead of changing him into a grasshopper, she asked Zeus to ________________________. She managed to still have fifty daughters with Endymion!
grant him eternal sleep