Myth Vocab

Question 1

Elysian Fields

Answer 1

Part of the under world - you could end up in heaven or the other bad side. In Hadye’s.

Question 2

Herculean

Answer 2

With strength and effort relates back to Hercules.

Question 3

Achilles heel

Answer 3

An area of weakness. Something you put off till later like homework.

Question 4

Labyrinth

Answer 4

Like a maze

Question 5

Nemesis

Answer 5

Your enemy like Wellesley vs Needham

Question 6

Psych

Answer 6

The mind, consciousness, spirit, and mental process. The study of mind and behavior.

Question 7

Gorgon

Answer 7

Turns people to stone, has snakes for hair, killed many.

Question 8

Harp

Answer 8

To talk in a negative way non stop. A half human, half bird

Question 9

Narcissistic

Answer 9

Extremely self - centered with an exaggerated sense of self importance.

Question 10

Titanic

Answer 10

Having a great magnitude, force, or power. (Huge) Refers to Titans

Question 11

Midas Touch

Answer 11

The ability to make money out of anything one undertakes. Connects to King Midas turning everything into gold that he touched.

Question 12

Tantalize

Answer 12

To tease someone with something out of reach of them. Tantulas was punished and was given the curse of not able to grasp onto things he was trying to reach.

Question 13

Sisyphean

Answer 13

A never ending event or action. What you’r doing is that.

Question 14

Apollo and Daphne

Answer 14

He falls in love with her, but she wants to remain a maiden. Eventully she runs away and turns into a tree.

Question 15

Prometheus

Answer 15

He steals fire from the Gods for mankind. Zeus is angry with him so he chains him up, but eventually Hercules frees him.

Question 16

Persephone, Demeter, and Hades

Answer 16

Persephone gets kidnapped by Hades to the underworld. While she’s gone her mother turns the world cold each time she’s in the underworld.

Question 17

Cupid and Psyche

Answer 17

They fall in love with each other and marry, but he only visits her at night, and she’s not allowed to see him. They separate for some time, then are reunited.

Question 18

Theseus slays the Minotaur

Answer 18

He convinces his father to let him fight the Minotaur a creature. He kills it with the help of Ariadne. He forgets to put the white sale up for victory on his journey home, so his father kills him self.

Question 19

Daedalus and the flight of Icarus

Answer 19

They try to escape King Minos’s labyrinth on the island of Crete by constructing wings made of feathers and wax. Icarus flies too close to the sun not listening to his father’s warnings causing his wax to melt. He falls to his death in Icarian Sea.

Question 20

Echo and Narcissus

Answer 20

Echo is a nymph who angered Hera, can only repeat last words someone otters. She falls in love with Narcissus a beautiful man who falls in love with himself.

Question 21

King Midas

Answer 21

He requests the golden touch for doing a good deed. But soon regrets it and can’t sleep or hug his daughter. He begs to be returned to normal.

Question 22

Pyramus and Thisbe

Answer 22

Young neighbors that are deeply in love and plan to run away together. When Pyramus escapes he see’s Thisbe’s scarf on the ground and thinks a lion ate her. He kills him self, but Thisbe discovers this and kills her self to join him in death. The berries turn red in their memory.

Question 23

Medusa and Perseus

Answer 23

She has snakes for hair, but is killed by Perseus who is aided by winged sandals from Hermes.

Question 24

Death of Achilles

Answer 24

Achilles mother dips him in the water of immortality, holding him by his heel. No arrow or weapon could harm him until Paris shoots him in the heel during the Trojan War.

Question 25

Orpheus and Eurydice

Answer 25

Hades agrees to free Eurydice, but only if Orpheus doesn’t look back at his wife. On the way back to earth Orpheus looks back at Eurydice and then looses her forever.

Question 26

Sisyphus

Answer 26

A trickster. He chained up life so he wouldn’t have to leave the underworld. He is punished and forced to push a rock up a hill for eternity.

Question 27

Athena and Arachne

Answer 27

She is the goddess of war and handicrafts. She gets jealous and turns him into a spider.

Question 28

Labors and Hercules

Answer 28

He is illegitimate. Hera kills his whole family.

Question 29

Why is Zeus associated with lightning

Answer 29

A way for the Greeks to explain the unexplainable.

Question 30

Who were Zues’s parents

Answer 30

His father is named Cronus the King of the Titans and his mothers name is Rhea who is Cronus’s sister also a Titan.

Question 31

Why did the Greek myths contain incest, cannibalism, and sacrifice

Answer 31

Greek Myths have incest because there’s no one else for them to marry besides their siblings. Cannibalism happened because the father didn’t want their children to take over their power so they ate their children.

Question 32

What did Cronus do to his children and why

Answer 32

He ate them because he didn’t want his children to take over his powers.

Question 33

How did Rhea trick Cronus

Answer 33

She wraps a blanket around a rock pretending it’s another one of her babies and Cronus eats it.

Question 34

How is Zeus similar to his father

Answer 34

They both want to be the most powerful.

Question 35

What does being given the ability to harness lightning mean for Zeus

Answer 35

It is very powerful and no one will be able to defeat him.

Question 36

Example of Hercules Labors

Answer 36

Nemean, Lion, Boar, Clean the stabbles in one day, kill a headed hydra.