Greek Myths, Lesson 11-15 Flashcards
released miseries upon the world
Pandora
keeper of the winds
Aeolus
The gentle dawn; mother of the 4 winds
Eos
Husband of Eos
Tithonus
the sun
Helios
daughters of Helios
Heliades
mortal son of Helios
Phaethon
the moon
Selene
god of nature
Pan
turned stories into poems songs
Muses
muse of heroic poetry
Calliope
mother of the Muses; goddess of memory
Mnemosyne
nymph who fell in love with Narcissus
Echo
died from self-love
Narcissus
changed herself into a reed; Pan’s first instrument
Syrinx
nymph truned into a laurel tree
Daphne
father of Daphne; river-god
Landon
father of the centaurs; King of Lapith people
Ixion
avenging furies
Erinyes
father of a new race of men, son of Prometheus
Deucalion
his wife
Pyrrha
greatest teacher of Greece
Chiron
the first doctor; mortal son of Apollo
Asclepius
The first nurse
Hygeia
mortal son of Calliope
Orpheus
Calliope’s son tried to rescue her from the underworld
Eurydice
North wind
Borlas
South wind
Notus
West wind
Zephyr
East Wind
Eurus
new race, better able to endure miseries
Deucalion’s Race
half horse, half man
centaur
woodland creature with goat’s features
satyr
old satyrs
sileni
highest honor for a hero
laurel wreath
where Chiron instructed his pupils
Mt. Pelion
where the Muses sang and played
Mt. Parnassus
where Orpheus’s body was found
Lesbos