Myth vocab Flashcards
(47 cards)
kk5Apollo and Daphne
Apollo falls in love with Daphne but she wishes to remain a maiden as Apollo chases Daphne’s father a river god takes pit on her and turns into a laurel tree
Prometheus
- steals fire
- chained to a rock
Persephone, Demeter and Hades
- P kidnaped my hades to the underworld
- de makes the earth bad and nothing can grow while her daughter is there
Cupid and Psyche
- they both fall in love and marry
- he can only see her at night
-she gets sent away and then they go back to each other
Theseus slays the Minotaur
- Theseus pulls the rock from the stone
- fights the Minotaur
- he forgets to fight the white sale
Daedalus and Icarus
-father is the son
- Daedalus and the father and they try to escape the king Minos
Echoa and narcissus
- echo falls in love with Narcissus but N falls in love with himself when he sees himself
- and N dies looking at his reflection and the only thing that remains her echo
king Midas
- ask for the golden touch. turns his daughter into gold and he doesn’t wish he has the power that he can turn anything into gold
Pyramus and Thisbe
- plot of R+J
- two neighbors fall in love they both sneak out and their parents hate each other
Medusa and Perseus
- M is an organ and she is very ugly with snakes out of her head
- and she can turn men into stones with her hair
death of Achilles
- gets hit in her Achilles and dies
Orpheus and Eurydice
O is the son of A
they try to revive his wife
Tantalus
he abuses his privilege of sharing food of the gods and they did nit allow him to get water or fruit
Athena and Arachne
they were known for mocking gods and were able to spin threads forever
Athena and Arachne
they turn into a creature and can spin thread forever
12 labors of Hercules
hera hated Hercules he one of many Zeus kids
labors of Hercules
Hera hated Hercules because he was one of many Zeus’s kids
Zeus
- ## a king who wants more power than everybody.
Prometheus
tough people how to walk right he steals fire then has to be chained to a rock and then him and Zeus become friends
Epimetheus
he gives all of the gifts to the animals instead of the humans and doesn’t think things through.
Pandora
her name means all gifts she opens the gift and opens all bad things but then she closes it and gets sent to
why is Zeus associated with lightning
to explain the unexplainable
who were Zeus’s parents
Cronus and rhea
how is Zeus similar to his father
they both had a lot of power and didn’t want anybody to have power over them and they would do anything for it.
