Myths pt 3 Flashcards

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Midas

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  • A king
    -known for wishing that everything he touches turns to gold
    -selfish
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Pygmalion

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-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

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Perseus

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-hero
-known for bringing the decapitated head of medusa back as a reward to King Polydectes, then turned him to stone
-father is posiden

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Daedalus

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-inventor
-very smart
-known for making wings for him and his son to escape the top of a tower on

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Icarus

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-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

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Theseus

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-heroic
-slayed the minotaur with his own horn
-god of horses

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Orpheus

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-musician
-poet
-known for descending to the underworld ( as a living human ) to get his wife eurydice
-he looks back and loses his wife

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Narcissus

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-big headed
-fell in love with his own reflection in the water
-turned into a flower near the river

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Echo

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-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

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Eros

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-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

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Psyche

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-very beautiful
-fell in love with eros without seeing him
-got upset with him and revealed his identity
-mean sisters

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Arion

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-horse
-saved the king of Argos

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Medusa

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-slept with Posiden
-was very beautiful
-got punished by Athena
-her eyes turn you to stone

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Minotaur

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-monster
-head and tail of a bull and body of a human
-was stuck in the lybrinth after being born

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King Minos

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-king of crete
-son of zeus
-sent 14 children to to be eaten by the minotaur

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Ariadne

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-daughter of king of crete
-fell in love with thesus
helped him escape the laybrinth

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Atalanta

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-very fast
-was distracted by apples in a race and had to get married to hippomentis
-a strong women