The Age of Fable

Question 1

Ch3) Apollo and Daphne. Summarize

Answer 1

Apollo is madly in love with Daphne but Daphne doesn’t want to get married. So Apollo turns her into a tree.

Question 2

Ch3) Pyramus and Thisbe

Answer 2

Thisbe and Pyramus are forbidden, by parents, to see each other. One night they both sneak off. They agreed to meat by a mulberry tree. Thisbe arrives first but is attacked by a lion and as she runs away she drops her bloody vail. Pyramus then shows up. Sees the vail and thinks she died so he offs himself (using his sword). Then Thisbe sees him dead and offs herself. They get buried together and the tree forever grows purple berries.

Question 3

Ch3) Cephalus and Procris

Answer 3

Cephalus goes hunting and talks about the wind blowing against his breasts. Procris follows and hears she thinks he’s having an affair. Cep hears her crying and thinks she’s a wounded animal. He throws a spear at her. She dies he realizes it was her.

Question 4

Ch5) Phaëton

Answer 4

Phaëton is the son of Apollo. None of his friends believes he is the son of Apollo so he asks his dad to give him something to show that he is Apollos son. Apollo reluctantly agrees to let him barrow his golden chariot. Phaëton then ruins the world by steering off the “road”.

Question 5

Ch7) Proserpine

Answer 5

Proserpine was raped by Pluto. And then Ceres went to find her daughter she met Celeus who’s son was sick but Ceres healed him. She was going to make the son immortal but got interrupted and didn’t. Ceres made a deal with Jupiter to get Proserpine back but Proserpine couldn’t eat anything while on earth. But she did and they had to compromise. Proserpine would spend half her time with her mother and the other half with her husband Pluto.

Question 6

Ch7) Proserpine- Glaucus and Scylla

Answer 6

Glaucus was a fisherman who became a mermaid. He fell in love with Scylla but she didn’t love him back. He asked a goddess, Circe, to turn her into stone. “ she destroyed six of the companions of Ulysses, and tried to wreck the ships of AEneas, till at last she was turned into a rock.”

Question 7

Ch11) Cupid and Psyche

Answer 7

Cupid and Psyche are meant to be together. But Cupid will never let her see his face for fear that she might now love him. Psyche and her sisters come up w/ a plan to see his face. Plan goes wrong, Cupid gets mad that she was going to kill him if he was hideous. To get him back Psyche has to do all these tasks but never completes them instead Cupid does. They get back together and all is well.

Question 8

Ch15) The Graeae and Gorgons- Perseus and Medusa

Answer 8

Medusa got her head cut off by Perseus. Acrisius was turned into stone by Perseus, as predicted by the oracle. Perseus saved Andromeda from a sea monster and then during the wedding feast Phineus demanded the virgin but he got turned into stone.

Question 9

Ch16) Monsters: Giants-Sphinx-(Pegasus and Chimaera)-Centaurs-Pygmiex-Griffin

Answer 9

Bellerophontic beat the Chimaera using the Pegasus. The Chimaera was a horrible monster. Bellerophontic died after being thrown from his Pegasus.

Question 10

Ch16) Monsters: Giants-Sphinx-Pegasus and Chimaera-(Centaurs-Pygmiex-Griffin)

Answer 10

Centaur: upper body of a human and lower body of a horse .
Pygmies: nation of little dwarfs. Lived in India.
Griffin: mo start with the body of a lion, the head and wings of an eagle, and back covered with feathers.

Question 11

Ch16) Monsters: (Giants-Sphinx)-Pegasus and Chimaera-Centaurs-Pygmiex-Griffin

Answer 11

Oedipus killed his father, solved the Sphinx’s riddle, married the queen, who was his mother. Then later the oracle was taken into account and the queen killed herself and Oedipus left Thebes.

Question 13

Ch17) The Golden Fleece- Medea

Answer 13

Jason wants to regain the throne. To do so he has to get the golden fleece. King Aeëtes says he can have the fleece if he completes three almost impossible tasks. He does with the help of Medea. He takes the fleece and Medea and returns to take the throne.

Question 14

Ch19) Hercules

Answer 14

Hercules Zeus’s son, is half God. He marries Megara and they have 3 kids. Hercules goes mad and unwittingly kills them. To cleanse himself, Hercules visits the Oracle at Delphi. And has to complete 12 almost impossible challenges. He completes them.

Question 15

Ch31) Adventures of Aeneas-Harpies-Dido-Palinurus

Answer 15

TBC

Question 16

Ch32) The Infernal Regions- The Sibyl

Answer 16

Aeneas went on a journey w/ Sibyl through dark places to get back to his father. He eventually will reach his father and Sibyl will live to be 1,000 years old but will not stay young. She will shrink but her voice will forever be loud.

Question 17

Ch34) Oracles-Poets of Mythology

Answer 17

Oracle was the band used to denote the place where answers were suppose to be given by any of the divinities to those who consulted them respecting the future. The word was also used to signify the response which was given.

Question 18

Ch34) Oracle of Aesculapius

Answer 18

About a ship that turned into a snake and took over an island and the river.

Question 18

Ch34) the poets of Mythology- homer

Answer 18

Homer wrote poems in the “Odyssey” and “Iliad”. But are his poems the work of a single mind?

Question 19

Ch34) Ovid

Answer 19

Ovid had a great life in Rome but the. Got banned and spent the last 10 years of his life writing poetical letters to his friends and family, wrote about sorrow.

Question 20

Cg35) Modern monsters- The Phoenix- Basilisk- Unicorn

Answer 20

Phoenix: Cat/Parrot thing
The Cockatrice: serpents like the ones on medusas head
Unicorn: body of horse, head of a deer, feet of an elephant, tail of a boar, deep bellowing voice, and a single black horn.

Question 20

Ch40) Beowulf

Answer 20

Beowulf killed Grendel and took his arm. Grendel’s mom took the arm back. Beowulf killed Grendel’s mom and took the head as a trophy. Beowulf was offered to be the king but he denied and gave the kingship to the queens son. But he died in battle. So Beowulf became king. Then 50 years later a dragon entered the castle and Beowulf died. Beowulf named Wiglaf his successor right before he died. Wiglaf was the last of Beowulf’s men.