Greek Mythology

Question 1

Apollo and Daphne

Prometheus

Answer 1

Apllo falls in love with Daphne and Daphne’s father, a river god, takes pity on her and turns her into a laurel tree

Question 2

Prometheus

Answer 2

steals fire

Question 3

Peresphone, Demeter and Hades

Answer 3

Peresphone, daughter of Demeter, kidnapped by Hades, Earth suffers though winter

Question 4

Cupid and Psyche

Answer 4

fall in love, drips candle wax on him, Psyche is sent away

Question 5

Theseus slays the Minotaur

Answer 5

Fight the Minotaur, with the help of Ariadne, forgets to hoist the white sail

Question 6

Daedaluis and the fight of Icarus

Answer 6

Icarus and his father, escape King Minos’s, fathers and wax wings, Icarus flies to close to the sun, plummets to his watery death

Question 7

Echo and Narcissus

Answer 7

she falls in love with Narcissus, falls in love with himself, Narcissus dies staring at his own reflection

Question 8

King Midas

Answer 8

wishes for golden touch. immediately regrets his destructive gift

Question 9

Pyramus and Thisbe

Answer 9

deeply in love with each other. lion. bloody veil. mulberries. story of Romeo and Juliet

Question 10

Medusa and Perseus

Answer 10

Athena turns Medusa into gorgon. Has snakes on her head. Turn men into stone. Medusa is killed by Perseus

Question 11

Death of Achillies

Answer 11

Mother dipped him in the water, held him by his heel. Killed by Paris when he is shot by an arrow in the heel

Question 12

Orpheus and Eurydice

Answer 12

Orpheus = son of Apollo
Goes to the underworld to get his dead wife. Hades said not to look back at his wife. He looked back. She was taken away.

Question 13

Tantalus

Answer 13

Zeus punished him to Hades because he shared food of the gods. Punishment = not allowed to have food or water that surrounded him

Question 14

Sisyphus

Answer 14

A trickster. As punishment he is forced to roll a giant boulder up a hill every day forever

Question 15

Athena and Arachne

Answer 15

Fight about who is the best at weaving - competition. Arachne does something Athena hates, so Athena turns her into a spider

Question 16

Hercules

Answer 16

Zeus’s son
Hera makes him go crazy and kill his wife and children
To make up for it he has to complete 12 labors
1. defeating the Nemean lion
2. killing the Hydra
3. Cleaning a giant stable in one day

Question 17

psyche

Answer 17

soul, consciousness

Question 18

narcissistic

Answer 18

self-centered

Question 19

Promethean

Answer 19

a risk taker, daringly original

Question 20

labryrinth

Answer 20

maze

Question 21

Pandora’s box

Answer 21

a source of trouble

Question 22

arachnid

Answer 22

spider

Question 23

harp (verb)

Answer 23

tedious talking

Question 24

Achillies’ heel

Answer 24

vulberability

Question 25

Elysian Field

Answer 25

paradise

Question 26

Gorgon

Answer 26

unattractive, fierce

Question 27

titanic

Answer 27

having great power, fierce

Question 28

Midas touch

Answer 28

ability to make money

Question 29

tantalize

Answer 29

tempt

Question 30

Herculean

Answer 30

with great effort and strength

Question 31

nemesis

Answer 31

enemy

Question 32

Prometheus

Answer 32

-walk upright like the gods -power over earth and sea -steals fire and gives ability to think -punished by Zeus - chained to a rock -smarter than Zeus - they became friends

Question 33

Epimetheus

Answer 33

-Prometheus' brother -doesn't think things through -after thought -gives all gifts to the animals and saved none for humans

Question 34

Zeus

Answer 34

-didn't want humans to have as much power as gods -As revenge for fire sends Pandora to Epimetheus

Question 35

Pandora

Answer 35

-Hermes gives her cunning, deceit, and curiosity -"all-gifted" -given box - told not to open -releases all terrible things - is able to close the box which saves hope

Question 36

Why is Zeus associated with lightning?

Answer 36

so that he could be the most

Question 37

Who were Zeus' parents?

Answer 37

Rhea and cronws

Question 38

How is Zeus similar to his father?

Answer 38

both wanted to be the most powerful

Question 39

what did Cronus do to the children

Answer 39

he would eat the children

Question 40

How does Rhea trick Cronus

Answer 40

she hides her kid in a cave

Question 41

what are the moral messages of Pyramus and Thisbe

Answer 41

Don’t assume the worst and they had a lot of love for each other

Question 42

what did the mulberries symbolize

Answer 42

there love

Question 43

how do Pyramus and Thisbe's parents change