Mythology Flashcards
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Apolo + Daph
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Apolo falls in love with Daphne, but she wishes to remain a maiden. As Apollo chases her, Daphne’s father, a river god takers pity on her and turns her into a laurel tree.
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Prometheus
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- Seals fire
- chained to rock
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Persephone, Demeter & Hades
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- P kidnaped by Hades
- Because P is kidnaped Demeter makes the earth unlivable
- In the end P has to stay with Hades for 6 months
- she has to stay because of each pomegranate seed she had while held captive
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Cupid and Psyche
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- Cupid and Psyche fall in love
- They can hardly see each other
- Psyche drips candle wax on Cupid so she is sent away
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Theseus slays the Minotaur
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- Theseus proves himself by pulling the sword from the stone so his mother send him to see his father
- Theseus is sent to kill the Minotaur
- Theseus with the help of Ariadne slays the Minotaur but forgets to raise the white flag
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Daedalus and the flight of Icarus
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- Daedalus is the father of Icarus
- The father and son are stuck on an island and Daedalus makes wings for them to get away
- but Icarus flys too close to the sun so the wax in the wings melts and Icarus dies.
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Echo and Narcissus
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- Echo falls in love with a man named Narcissus, but Narcissus is in love with himself
- Echo wastes away except for her voice
- While Narcissus wastes away staring at his own reflection turning into a flower
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King Midas
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- Midas asks for the golden touch
- He cant eat and touches his daughter and she dies
- he begs for the curse to be removed, and it is
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Pyramus and Thisbe
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- Has a similar plot of Romeo and Juliet
- Two neighbors are deeply in love
- But their families hate each other
- one night they both sneak out but Thisbe is attacked but gets away from a lion, but Pyramus mistakes her for being dead so he kills himself but then when Thisbe later sees Pyramus dead she kills herself
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Medusa and Perseus
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- Athena transforms Medusa into a gorgon with snakes for hair
- Medusa is later killed by Perseus with wing sandals, shield, and helmet from Hermes and Athena
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Death of Achilles
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- Achilles mother dipped her baby in water which made him immune to every weapon
- Achilles was not dipped everywhere, so he had a weakness which was his heel that could still be hurt.
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Orpheus and Eurydice
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- Orpheus went down to the underworld to get back his dead wife
- he made a deal that as long as he doesn’t look back at her while leaving the underworld she can leave.
- Orpheus ends up looking back at Eurydice during the leave and in turn loses her forvever.
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Tantalus
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- Abuses his privilege of sharing the food of the gods
- gets punished in hades by being starved and made thirsty but never being able to eat the food and water around him.
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Sisyphus
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- tricks and kills visitors that enter his kingdom
- is a king/ruler
- was punished by pushing a boulder up a mountain that would roll down once near the top
- he was punished for the killings and tricking the god of death into being bound by his own chains and leaving the underworld because he tricked the queen of it to letting him out.
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Athena and Arachne
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- Arachne is a skilled and overconfident weaver who claims to be better than Athena
- The two start a competition and Arachne mocks the gods during it
- Arachne gets turned into a spider for their mocking of the gods
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Labors of Hercules
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- Hera hated Hercules because he was one of the children Zeus had by cheating on her
- Hera made Hercules go crazy and kill his wife and children
- To atone for his sins he completes 12 labors like killing the hydra and cleaning a giant stable
