Greek Mytholgy STORIES Flashcards

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Apollo and Daphne

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Apollo falls in love with Daphene so he chases her down but she doesn’t love him so she gets turned into a tree

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Prometheus

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He steals the fire for man kind making Zeus upset when he doesn’t make the right offerings causing him to have a eagle tear out his liver

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Persephone and Hades

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Hades steals persphone creating winter and spring

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Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche fall in love. Psyche is stupid and then has to get past cupids mom and do acts in order to be reunited

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Theseis slays the minotaur

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Goes to the labryrinth to kill the monitor does it with a ball of string on way back forgets to put down black sails causing his father to jump off a cliff

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Daedalus and Icarus

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u know this one bb

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Echo and Narcissus

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a sea nymph who loses her voice because of hera can only echo things that people say one day sees a gorg man (jacob elordie) tries to help him but can only say what he says he stares and his reflection to long dies and gets turned into a flower

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King Midas

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Everything he toaches turns to gold includeing his daughter until he goes to the river Pactolus

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Pyamus and Thisbe

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Nebojers decide to run away together since they are in love. lioness gets thisbes veil making it bloody. Pyamus thinks that she is dead so kills himself then Thisbe kills herself then the mulberry are red because of this

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Perseus and medus

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Perseus kills medisa with the help of a shield invisible helmet and bag from athena

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Contest of Athena and Arachne

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Arachne claims she can spin better than Athena however Athena wins contest so as Arachne kills herself Althena turns her into a spider

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Atlanta

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Good female hunter who gets beat in a race because of golden apples has to marry the dude then gets turned into a lion

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Judgement of Paris

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idk yet

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Death of Achilles

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Achilles’ heal gets dipped into the waters of immortality except the heel gets death

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Hercules’s birth and sin

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Son of Zeus and a mortal woman is powerful (strangles two snakes) then ascendency kills his music teacher

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Labors of Hercules

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Kills his whole family under the insanity spell by Hera must perform 12 labors in order to win his family back

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Meda and Jason

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Let someone pass the river on his back Hera tricked an army into fighting against each

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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Hadestown plot yk this one

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Tantalus

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Tantalus cuts up his son to try and trick the gods into sharing a meal with them doesn’t work Zeus puts him into hades where whenever he tries to eat or drink food water recedes and the food goes away

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Bellerophon and Pegasus

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Slept on the temple of athena in order to try and tame the peaguses is sent to the Chimera and beats the monster. However later the gods try to sting the peaguses in order for him to fall off the peaguses

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Perseus and Andromeda

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On his way home from beheading medus finds perseus and saves him from the monster and then marries her

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Pygamalion and Galatea

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Famous sculpter falls in love with his stature then it comes to life

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Aphrodite and ADONIS

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After being hit by a arrow she falls into love with adonis

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Niobe

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A prideful mom boasts of having six sons and six daughters and is punished by the titan Leto was turned into a rock

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Baucis and Philemon

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An old couple who lets Zeus to stay the night and are nice to them