Myths pt 2 Flashcards
Arachne
Label: Weaver
Symbols: Weave, spiders,
Known for: getting turned into a spider by Athena
parents: Idmon
Cerebus
Cerebus
Label: 3 headed dog guarding the gates to the underworld
Symbols: bones
Persephone
Label: goddess of agriculture
Symbols: pomegranates and flowers
Relationship: wife of Hades
Known for: demeter’s daughter getting kidnaped and the agriculture dying
Asclepius
Label: god of medicine
Symbols: healing things
Relationship: married to Epione
Known for: being the son of Apollo
-moved by greed, he also dared to cure those who were destined to die. Because of this impiety, Zeus, the king of gods and humans, crushed Asclepius with his thunderbolt and killed him
-he took people back from the dead
Danae
Label: mother of perseus
Relationship: birthed zeus’ child
Known for: being seen by zeus and having him immediately fall in love with her
Procrustes
Label: Perseus’ child
Symbols: iron smith, thief, murderer, and inn keeper.
Known for: Forcing travelers to a bed and stretches their limbs or chops them off
Acrisius
Label: king of Argos
Relationship: husband to Eurydice
Known for: tried to imprison his daughter, but Zeus impregnated her, so Perseus was born
Pasiphae
Label: goddess of witchcraft?
Relationship: being the wife of King Minos
Known for: being the wife of King Minos
King Aegeus
Known for: having a stable that has never been cleaned, until hercules cleaned it as one of his labors
The Gray Sisters
Label: The Gray Sisters
Symbols: Their eye that they share
Relationship: none
Known for: having knowledge
Andromeda
Label: daughter of king cepheus
Relationship: wife of perseus
Known for: offending the neroids and getting punished by Poseidon
Atlas
Label: Titan god
Known for: getting punished by zeus and having to hold up the world/sky on his shoulders
