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Myth vocab Flashcards

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kk5Apollo and Daphne

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Apollo falls in love with Daphne but she wishes to remain a maiden as Apollo chases Daphne’s father a river god takes pit on her and turns into a laurel tree

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Prometheus

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  • steals fire
  • chained to a rock
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Persephone, Demeter and Hades

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  • P kidnaped my hades to the underworld
  • de makes the earth bad and nothing can grow while her daughter is there
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Cupid and Psyche

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  • they both fall in love and marry
  • he can only see her at night
    -she gets sent away and then they go back to each other
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Theseus slays the Minotaur

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  • Theseus pulls the rock from the stone
  • fights the Minotaur
  • he forgets to fight the white sale
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Daedalus and Icarus

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-father is the son
- Daedalus and the father and they try to escape the king Minos

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Echoa and narcissus

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  • echo falls in love with Narcissus but N falls in love with himself when he sees himself
  • and N dies looking at his reflection and the only thing that remains her echo
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king Midas

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  • ask for the golden touch. turns his daughter into gold and he doesn’t wish he has the power that he can turn anything into gold
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Pyramus and Thisbe

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  • plot of R+J
  • two neighbors fall in love they both sneak out and their parents hate each other
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Medusa and Perseus

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  • M is an organ and she is very ugly with snakes out of her head
  • and she can turn men into stones with her hair
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death of Achilles

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  • gets hit in her Achilles and dies
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Orpheus and Eurydice

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O is the son of A
they try to revive his wife

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Tantalus

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he abuses his privilege of sharing food of the gods and they did nit allow him to get water or fruit

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Athena and Arachne

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they were known for mocking gods and were able to spin threads forever

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Athena and Arachne

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they turn into a creature and can spin thread forever

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12 labors of Hercules

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hera hated Hercules he one of many Zeus kids

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labors of Hercules

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Hera hated Hercules because he was one of many Zeus’s kids

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Zeus

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  • ## a king who wants more power than everybody.
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Prometheus

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tough people how to walk right he steals fire then has to be chained to a rock and then him and Zeus become friends

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Epimetheus

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he gives all of the gifts to the animals instead of the humans and doesn’t think things through.

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Pandora

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her name means all gifts she opens the gift and opens all bad things but then she closes it and gets sent to

22
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why is Zeus associated with lightning

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to explain the unexplainable

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who were Zeus’s parents

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Cronus and rhea

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how is Zeus similar to his father

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they both had a lot of power and didn’t want anybody to have power over them and they would do anything for it.

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psyche

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soul; consciouness

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Narcissistic

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self-centered

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Promethean

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a risk taker daringky original

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labyrinth

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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

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tedious talking

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Achilles heel

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vunerablitily

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elysian feild

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paradise

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Gorgon

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ugly and unattractive

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titanic

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having great power

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Midas touch

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everything you touch turns into gold

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tantalized

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tempt

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herculean

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with great strength and effort

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nemesis

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enemy

40
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What is the moral message

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to not make assumptions

41
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what does mulberries symbol

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Love

42
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what do the parents change

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that they like each other now and they don’t have beef

43
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ordinary word

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where the hero exits before
(Dad is kind of pride and expects everybody to listen to the rules and follow what he says)

44
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call to adventure

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where his adventure begins
(scar manipulates Simba you have to be brave to go to the elephant)

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refusal of the call

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Simba realizes he’s not ready to be a king yet

46
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crossing the threshold

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after mofasa is killed simbas leaves and runds away

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