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Apollo and Daphne

Prometheus

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Apllo falls in love with Daphne and 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

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Peresphone, Demeter and Hades

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Peresphone, daughter of Demeter, kidnapped by Hades, Earth suffers though winter

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Cupid and Psyche

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fall in love, drips candle wax on him, Psyche is sent away

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Theseus slays the Minotaur

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Fight the Minotaur, with the help of Ariadne, forgets to hoist the white sail

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Daedaluis and the fight of Icarus

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Icarus and his father, escape King Minos’s, fathers and wax wings, Icarus flies to close to the sun, plummets to his watery death

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Echo and Narcissus

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she falls in love with Narcissus, falls in love with himself, Narcissus dies staring at his own reflection

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King Midas

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wishes for golden touch. immediately regrets his destructive gift

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Pyramus and Thisbe

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deeply in love with each other. lion. bloody veil. mulberries. story of Romeo and Juliet

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Medusa and Perseus

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Athena turns Medusa into gorgon. Has snakes on her head. Turn men into stone. Medusa is killed by Perseus

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Death of Achillies

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Mother dipped him in the water, held him by his heel. Killed by Paris when he is shot by an arrow in the heel

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Orpheus and Eurydice

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Orpheus = son of Apollo
Goes to the underworld to get his dead wife. Hades said not to look back at his wife. He looked back. She was taken away.

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Tantalus

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Zeus punished him to Hades because he shared food of the gods. Punishment = not allowed to have food or water that surrounded him

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Sisyphus

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A trickster. As punishment he is forced to roll a giant boulder up a hill every day forever

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Athena and Arachne

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Fight about who is the best at weaving - competition. Arachne does something Athena hates, so Athena turns her into a spider

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Hercules

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Zeus’s son
Hera makes him go crazy and kill his wife and children
To make up for it he has to complete 12 labors
1. defeating the Nemean lion
2. killing the Hydra
3. Cleaning a giant stable in one day

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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 original

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labryrinth

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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 (verb)

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tedious talking

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Achillies’ heel

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vulberability

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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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tantalize

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tempt

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Herculean

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with great effort and strength

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nemesis

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enemy

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Prometheus

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-walk upright like the gods
-power over earth and sea
-steals fire and gives ability to think
-punished by Zeus - chained to a rock
-smarter than Zeus - they became friends

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Epimetheus

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-Prometheus’ brother
-doesn’t think things through
-after thought
-gives all gifts to the animals and saved none for humans

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Zeus

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-didn’t want humans to have as much power as gods
-As revenge for fire sends Pandora to Epimetheus

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Pandora

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-Hermes gives her cunning, deceit, and curiosity
-“all-gifted”
-given box - told not to open
-releases all terrible things - is able to close the box which saves hope

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Why is Zeus associated with lightning?

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so that he could be the most

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Who were Zeus’ parents?

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Rhea and cronws

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How is Zeus similar to his father?

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both wanted to be the most powerful

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what did Cronus do to the children

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he would eat the children

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How does Rhea trick Cronus

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she hides her kid in a cave

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what are the moral messages of Pyramus and Thisbe

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Don’t assume the worst and they had a lot of love for each other

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what did the mulberries symbolize

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there love

43
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how do Pyramus and Thisbe’s parents change

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