Greek myths

Question 1

Apollo and Daphne

Answer 1

Apollo (sun god) loves daphne (sworn virgin nymph). Peneus (d dad) turns her into laurel tree

Question 2

Semele and Zeus

Answer 2

They have an affair and Hera (old lady form) gives doubt whether it’s actually Zeus. Semele has guranteed wish, wishes to see Zeus true form. Zeus can’t deny so shows form and burns her into ashes w/ lightning bolts and storm clouds. Zeus saves baby Dionysus

Question 3

Prometheus

Answer 3

Prometheus creates man, gets punished for being kind to humans, pact w/ athena, gives fire, meat baskets trick, steals fire from mount olympus, captured by zeus and chained to rock w/ eagle

Question 4

Persephone and Demeter

Answer 4

Persephone kidnapped by hades into underworld, demeter looks for her for so long, massive WINTER, zeus not happy no human sacrifices, so tells d to stop looking and will get hermes to get persephone. P refuses to eat down there but she ate pomegranate seeds–>she has to stay bc she ate food there. Demeter heartbroken, Zeus makes deal to stay sometimes with persephone. Seasons creation

Question 5

Cupid and Psyche

Answer 5

Aphrodite don’t like psyche (pretty mortal), son cupid falls in love with her, sent to lonely mountain marry ugly monster. Cupid gets her out by Zephyr’s big wind into pretty palace in valley. Psyche loves cupid even though she can’t see him–>one day sees handsome man in bedroom and faints and Cupid runs away. Psyche asks Aphrodite for help–>given impossible tasks. ex get a box from persephone in underworld. Eros missed her a lot and brought her to m. Olympus. They got marries and p got ambrosia (immortal)

Question 6

Theseus slays the minotaur

Question 7

Daedalus and the flight of Icarus

Answer 7

Hollow wooden bull costume, minotaur born, Daedalus builds labryinth, Theseus kills minotaur, Daedalus+son imprisoned in labyrinth, Daedalus builds wax wings for icarus, melts bc he flew too high. he falls into sea and drowns

Question 8

Echo and Narcissus

Question 9

King midas and the golden touch

Question 10

Pyramus and Thisbe

Answer 10

Romeo and Juliet, lion, veil, mulberry tree, suicide

Question 11

Athena and Arachne

Question 12

Io and Zeus

Answer 12

affair, to hide turns into cow, had to give away, rescue from 100 eye giant, use instrument, comes back to human

Question 13

The fall of phaeton

Answer 13

Helios grant phaeton any wish (dad to son). Phaeton ride sun chariot. leaves w/o sun rays and ointment and awareness to stay on magical path. is inexperients with reins and gets the sun too close to earth (Earth bad). Phaeton lets go, horses run away, Zeus mad so w/ lightning kills him, falls in river, parents sad

Question 14

Death of Achilles

Answer 14

guy only weakness his hill (mother dip into some cool immortalifying water besides heel, paris shoots him in his heel and he dies in trojan war.

Question 15

Hercules

Answer 15

Hera mad w/ hercules mother (zeus affair). Hercules is cursed to go mad and kills his family. To get honor back he had to do a bunch of tasks. lion, hydra, hind of ceryneia, boar, cleaning stables (flood), birds, bull, barbaric king w/human eating horses, golden apple, underworld to fight ceberus, bc he finished all he got to become a god

Question 16

Medea and Jason

Answer 16

Medea helps Jason get the Golden Fleece but he marries another woman so she gets mad and kills his new wife and the wife’s father with a poisoned cloak that sets them both on fire. She then kills the two kids she had with Jason. Bronze foot bulls, sow field w/ dragon teeth, cuts up sheep,

Question 17

Hermes

Answer 17

Hermes was born and killed a turtle–>used shell to make lyre (instrument with strings). stole apollo’s cattle, zeus mad, trade cattle for lyre. He is messenger of the gods, have winged sandals and a staff

Question 18

Orpheus and Eurydice

Answer 18

Natalie: eurydice bit by snake and dies, goes to underworld. Orpheus sad tries to save her–plays music. They try to get out, but one in front of the other and can’t look back (trust). orpheus breaks this and looks back at the top, so it was all wasted

Question 19

tantalus

Answer 19

fed kid to the gods in feast, sentenced to forever in a nice pond with nice fruit on top but he can’t get either.