Nature Myths

Question 1

Prometheus

Answer 1

-Loves mortals too much
-stole fire to give to the mortals after zeus directly told him not to
-Chained to a rock, and has vultures eat at his stomach for eternity

Question 2

Pandora

Answer 2

-Curiosity is her flaw
-Opened a box filled with all the flaws of the human law
-her punishment is being blamed

Question 3

Phaethon

Answer 3

-Does Not obey rules
- Flies too close to the earth while riding the sun chariot and burns the earth, and freezes it.
-Hit by a lightning bolt
and killed

Question 4

Orpheus

Answer 4

-Lack of trust
-Got his wife out of the underworld, but looked back too soon and killed her
-Got killed

Question 5

Narcissus

Answer 5

-Too self involved
-Fell in love his own reflection in the water
-Died and turned into a flower

Question 6

Psyche

Answer 6

• Very insecure
  -Got married to a man who wouldn’t show his face to her, and she got scared and snuck up on him in the middle of the night, and saw his true form.
  -Eros woke up and got very angry

Question 7

Arion

Answer 7

• was an ancient Greek mythical creature that took the form of a giant, extremely swift horse.
  -Arion threw himself into the sea rather than be killed, but one of the dolphins saved his life and carried him to safety at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Cape Tainaron.