Myths pt 3 Flashcards
Midas
- A king
-known for wishing that everything he touches turns to gold
-selfish
Pygmalion
-known for making a sculpture of a women ( based off of aphrodite ) that he falls in love with
-a sculpter
-aphrodite turned the sculpture to life and they got married
Perseus
-hero
-known for bringing the decapitated head of medusa back as a reward to King Polydectes, then turned him to stone
-father is posiden
Daedalus
-inventor
-very smart
-known for making wings for him and his son to escape the top of a tower on
Icarus
-the son of daedalus
-doesn’t listen to directions
-flew too close to the sun, and the wax of the wings his father made him melted off, and he died
Theseus
-heroic
-slayed the minotaur with his own horn
-god of horses
Orpheus
-musician
-poet
-known for descending to the underworld ( as a living human ) to get his wife eurydice
-he looks back and loses his wife
Narcissus
-big headed
-fell in love with his own reflection in the water
-turned into a flower near the river
Echo
-helped zeus cheat on his wife hera, and got caught, then lost her voice because of it
-fell in love with narcissus
-narcissus didn’t love echo back
Eros
-son of aphrodite
-god of love and fertility
-made people fall in love by shooting an arrow into their heart
-fell in love with psyche
Psyche
-very beautiful
-fell in love with eros without seeing him
-got upset with him and revealed his identity
-mean sisters
Arion
-horse
-saved the king of Argos
Medusa
-slept with Posiden
-was very beautiful
-got punished by Athena
-her eyes turn you to stone
Minotaur
-monster
-head and tail of a bull and body of a human
-was stuck in the lybrinth after being born
King Minos
-king of crete
-son of zeus
-sent 14 children to to be eaten by the minotaur
