Greek Flashcards
Apollo and Daphne
Apollo falls in love with Daphne, but she wishes to remain a maiden. As Apollo chases her, Daphne’s father, a river god, takes pity on her and turns her into a laurel tree.
Prometheus
Steals fire and gets changed to a rock
Persephone, Demeter and Hades
- The daughter of Demeter is Persephone
- Demeter is the goddess of the harvest
- Hades is the king of the underworld
Hade kidnapped Persephone to the underworld, and Demeter is in misery because of her absence making the earth cold and barren.
Cupid and Psyche
- cupid and psyche fall in love and marry
- Psyche is not allowed to see him
Theseus slays the Minotaur
-To prove himself to his father he fights the minotaur
-The Minotaur is a man with a bull head
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Daedalus and the fight of Icarus
- Icarus and Daedalus try to escape king mino’s island
-Icarus father made him wings and warned him about flying close to the sun
-despite this he flew to close died fell and into the ocean
Echo and Narcissus
-Echo falls in love with Narcissus
- Narcissus ends up falling in love with himself
- they both end up dying, Narcissus became a white and purple flower and Echo becomes an Echo
King Midas
-wishes everything he touched turned to gold then he wishes come true and ends up turning his daughter into gold
Pyramus and Thisbe
-Young lovers who planned to run away together
-one ends up killing themselves because they think one is already dead witch leads them to both kill themselves
Medusa and Pereus
- Athena tranfers Medusa into a gorgon
Death of Achilles
Achilles mother put Achillies in water to make him immortal holding him by the heel which made that his weak spot
Orpheus and Eurydice
-son of apollo and Caliope
- traveled to Hades to get his dead wife back
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Tantalus
- would often abuse his privilege of sharing food with the gods
- Get punished by Zeus in Hades
- he is not allowed to reach the fruit or water that surrounds him
Sisyphus
- known for being devious and tricky
- as punishment for being devious and tricky he is forced to roll a giant boulder uphill every day for eternity
Athena and Arachne
- Arachne is a skilled but vain weaver who claims to be superior to Athena
- they started a weaving competition during which Arachne mocked the gods
12 labors of Hercules
- Hera always hated Zeus
- Hera made Zeus so mad he killed his wife and children
- To atone for his sins he was assigned to complete 12 labors
Zeus
- didnt want humans to have as much power as gods
- Son of Kronos and Rhea
- thunder god
- King of Gods
Epimetheus
- Prometheus brother
- doesn’t think things through
-afterthought
gives all gifts to the animals and saves none for humans