UNIT 6: Stages 11-12 Myths and Culture

Question 1

Adonis

Answer 1

A beautiful young man who was loved by Aphrodite and tragically killed by a wild boar, after which he transformed into an anemone flower

Question 2

Atalanta

Answer 2

An athletic young woman who did not want to marry, but was defeated in a footrace when her suitor threw three golden apples that she stopped to pick up

Question 3

Callisto

Answer 3

Transformed into a bear (Ursa Major constellation)

Question 4

Baucis and Philemon

Answer 4

Old couple turned into oak and linden trees after showing hospitality to Zeus and Hermes

Question 5

Daphne

Answer 5

Turned into a laurel tree to escape Apollo

Question 6

Io

Answer 6

Zeus transformed her into a cow to hide her from Hera

Question 7

Argus

Answer 7

Giant whose body was covered by a hundred eyes, whom Hera assigned to guard Io. After he was killed by Hermes, Hera put his eyes on the peacock’s feathers.

Question 8

Pygmalion

Answer 8

Artist who fell in love with a statue he had made

Question 9

Pyramus and Thisbe

Answer 9

Babylonian couple whose tragic story provided the model for Romeo and Juliet

Question 10

Aedile

Answer 10

Roman magistrate in charge of public works

Question 11

Toga Candida

Answer 11

A whitened toga that allowed political candidates to stand out in a crowd

Question 12

Herculaneum

Answer 12

A town destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD

Question 13

Pyroclastic flow

Answer 13

A dense, destructive mass of very hot material ejected from a volcano and typically flowing downslope at great speed