Unit 3 Flashcards
turned stories into poems and songs
Nine Muses
muse of heroic poetry
Calliope
Callipe’s mortal son
Orpheus
avenging furies of the underworld
Erinyes
mother of Muses; goddess of memory
Mnemosyne
slopes where the Muses range and played music
Mount Parnassus
island where Opheus’ body was found
Lesbos
of a sickly, yellow color
sallow
Why and on what condition did Hades agree to release Euridice from the underworld?
Persephone, queen of the underworld and Hades’ wife, persuaded Hades to allow Euridice to return to the world of the living. Hades agreed to let Euridice out of the underworld providing Orpheus not look back at her before they reached the realm of the living.
Identify the marked location.
Mt. Parnassus
Identify the marked location.
Thrace
father of the centaurs; King of Lapith people
Ixion
temperaments, moods
dispositions
affliction
scourge
to go beyond the limit, power, or capacity of
surpass
Why were Hades and the Three Fates upset with Asclepius?
Asclepius could bring the dead back to life. This upset the Three Fates because they felt as if they were measuring and clipping the threads of life for no reason. Hades was angry because he thought he was being cheated out of dead souls who would otherwise join his underworld.
god of nature
Pan
nymph who fell in love with Narcissus
Echo
loved himself so much he died
Narcissus
nymph; was turned into a laurel tree
Daphne
highest honor a hero could receive
laurel wreath
fascinated
spellbound
sorrowful, mournful, sad
plaintive
to urgently beg
beseech
Why was Daphne turned into a laurel tree?
As Daphne ran away from Apollo she asked her father the river-god Ladon to save her,. He had no time to rise out of the riverbed so he turned her toes into the roots and her arms into the branches of a laurel tree. Daphne said she would rather be an unmoving tree than the bride of Apollo.
the gentle dawn; mother of the Four Winds
Eos
the sun
Helios
Helios’ mortal son
Paëthon
the moon
Selene
creature that is half horse, half man
centaur
hedonistic woodland creature with goat’s features
satyr
withered, dried up
wizened
the 12 principal constellations
zodiac
What happened to the earth when Paëthon drove too high or too low?
When the chariot raced too close to the earth, the ground cracked from the heat, and the rivers and lakes dried up. When it raced too high, the earth froze and turned to ice.
curiosity led her to release miseries from her jar
Pandora
Prometheus’ son, father of a new race of men
Deucalion
a stronger race of mortals; better able to endure miseries
Deucalion’s Race
the North Wind; icy and wild
Boreas
the South Wind; foggy and heavy
Notus
the West Wind; gentle and pleasant
Zephyr
the East Wind; least important
Eurus
Identify the marked location.
Mt. Pelion
unable to be satisfied
insatiable
What was the new race of mortals called? How was this race better than the previous one?
The new race of mortals was called Deucalion’s Race. They were made of stone and harder than the previous race, made of clay. The new mortals also better withstood stings of Pandora’s miseries, which continued to torment them.
