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Apollo and Daphne

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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.

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Prometheus

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Steals fire and gets changed to a rock

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Persephone, Demeter and Hades

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  • 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.

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Cupid and Psyche

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  • cupid and psyche fall in love and marry
  • Psyche is not allowed to see him
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Theseus slays the Minotaur

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-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

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  • 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
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Echo and Narcissus

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-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

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King Midas

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-wishes everything he touched turned to gold then he wishes come true and ends up turning his daughter into gold

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Pyramus and Thisbe

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-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

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Medusa and Pereus

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  • Athena tranfers Medusa into a gorgon
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Death of Achilles

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Achilles mother put Achillies in water to make him immortal holding him by the heel which made that his weak spot

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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-son of apollo and Caliope
- traveled to Hades to get his dead wife back
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Tantalus

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  • 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
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Sisyphus

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  • 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
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Athena and Arachne

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  • 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
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12 labors of Hercules

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  • 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
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Zeus

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  • didnt want humans to have as much power as gods
  • Son of Kronos and Rhea
  • thunder god
  • King of Gods
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Epimetheus

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  • Prometheus brother
  • doesn’t think things through
    -afterthought
    gives all gifts to the animals and saves none for humans
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Pandora

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  • Hermes gives her cunning deceit, and curiosity
  • “all-gifted”
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Psyche

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soul ; consciousness

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narcissistic

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self-centered

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Promethean

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a risk taker; daringly origanal

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labyrinth

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maze

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Pandora’s box

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a source of trouble

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arachnid

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spider

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harp (v)

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tedious talking

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Achille’s heel

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Vulnerability

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Elysian Field

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paradise

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Gorgon

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unattractive; fierce

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titanic

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having great power; fierce

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Midas touch

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ability to make money

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Herculean

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with great strength and effort

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tanalize

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tempt

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nemesis

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ememey

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Why is Zeus associated with lighting

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to explain the unexplainable

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Who were Zeus’ parents

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Kronos and Rhia

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How is Zeus similar to his father?

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they both wanted control and all the power in the universe

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The moral message of the myth?

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the power in love , and dont make assumptions

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what do mulberry symbols?

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his blood and their love

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what do the parents do?

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put aside there problems and put both of there ashes in one golden eirn so they could be in death together

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Ordinary World (Lion king)

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-Simba is born and raised in the pride land
- taken care of by Mufasa (Dad) and Sabrabi (Mom)
- King Musfasa shows Simba around the pride land and shows Simba the pride land and explains to him the circle of life.
- expected to be a brave king like his father
- Warns Simba to never go to the elephant graveyard because it is dangerous and outside the pride land

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Call to Adventure (Lion King)

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  • Uncle Scar manipulates Simba into going to the elephant graveyard Simba is too naive and falls right into Scar’s trap
  • Uncle Scar is jealous of his brother King Mufasa and how is rules over the pride land and the power he has. He plots to kill Mufasa and Simba to take the throne
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Refusal of the call (Lion King)

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  • Simba brought Nala to the elephant graveyard with him
  • Uncle Scar manipulates Simba into going to the elephant graveyard to be brave
  • When Simba and Nala went to the elephant graveyard they ran into hyenas and he quickly realized he wasn’t as brave as he thought but King Mufasa came to the rescue
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Meeting the Mentor (Lion King)

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  • King Mufasa and Nala helped Simba remember who he was after the death of Mufasa
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Crossing the Threshold (Lion King)

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