Greek mythology Flashcards
Apollo and Daphne
Apollo falls in love with Daphne
Dapne’s father takes pity on her and turns her into Laurel tree
Prometheus
steals fire
and is chained to a rock
Presephone, Demeter, and Hades
gets kidnapped by Hades
Demeter is the goddess of the harvest
Hades- wants Presephone as his wife
Things grew on earth when Presephone was there
Cupid, Physche
fall in love and marry.
she can’t see him
Physche is sent away and eventually they reunite.
she drips candle wax on him one night
Theseus slays the minotaur
Theseus pulls the rock from the stone to convince his father to let him fight Minotuar. He kills it with the help of Ariadne
daedulus and lcarus
They try to escape King mino
they construct wings made of feathers and wax
despite his father’s warnings, lcarus flies too close to the sun
Echo and Narcissus
echo, a nymph who angered Hera
he can only repeat the last word someone stutters
She falls in love with him but he also loves himself
She stares at her reflection in the pool.
Echo falls in love with her
King Mitus
He requests the golden touch
He can’t hug or touch anyone or they will turn into gold so he begs to be normal
Pyramus and Thisbe
Two neighbor’s fall in love
family’s hate each other
he sees her bloody scarf and he thing the lion ate her
He kills himself after
Plot of Romeo and Juliatte
Meduse and Perseus
Athena transforms medusa into a Gorgan.
she is later killed by Peresues
Medusa had snakes for hair
Death of achilies
Achilies’ mother dipped her bay in the waters of inmortality
no arrow or weapon could hurt him until Paris shoots him herself
Epimetheus
brother of prometheus
doesn’t think things through
gives all the gifts to the animals
punished by Zeus
Pandora
hermes given her cunning decit personality
Zeus
didn’t want humans to have as much power as the gods.
He sends Pandora in reverse to fire
Athena and Arachne
Arachne is a skilled vain weaver who thinks she is better
Arachne mocks the gods.
Athena turns her into a spider as punishment
12 labors of Hercules
Hera hated Hercules because he was a legit child of Zeus.
Hera causes Hercules to become mad
As punishment Hercules has to work 12 labors
Physche
soul: consiosness
Narcissistic
self- centered
Promethean
a risk taker- daringly original
labyrinth
maze