Transcript Slide 1

Match each God with his/her realm.
_____1.
Zeus
D
A. Women and Marriage
_____2.
Poseidon B. The Underworld
C
_____3.
Hades
B
C. The Sea
_____4.
Hestia
E
D. The Gods
_____5.
Demeter E. Hearth, Home and
F
_____6.
Hera
A
Architecture
F. Harvest and Fertility of the
Earth
These Gods are collectively called the first
___________________.
Olympians
Fill in the blanks.
Hades
Persephone and forced
_____________
kidnapped ___________
her to live in the underworld. Her mother,
Demeter
____________,
was horrified and went to her
Zeus
brother ___________
for help. The final decision was
that _______________
Persephone
could leave the Underworld
only if she had not eaten while there. She had, in
fact, eaten a ______________
____________. As a
Pomegranate Seed
Hades
result, she must stay with _____________
4 months a
year, with her mother 4 months, and gets 4 months
Persephone is in the Underworld, her
alone. When ____________
mother, Goddess of the harvest, refuses to let things
grow, thus causing winter.
Which God or Goddess is most associated with each symbol
below?
Match each God or Goddess with his/her specialty.
_____1.
Dionysus
A
_____2.
Apollo
E
_____3.
Artemis
G
_____4.
Aphrodite
D
_____5.
Ares
H
_____6.
Hephaestus
B
_____7.
Athena
C
_____8.
Persephone
F
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Grape, wine, ecstasy
Metalworking, smithwork
Wisdom and War
Love and Beauty
Light, sun, prophecy,
healing, music
F. Underworld and vegetation
G. Hunt, animals, childbirth,
virginity
H. War (strength and
violence)
Fill in the blanks.
Three Titans were not banished to Tartarus after the
Titanomachy. They were:
Prometheus
____________________
because he gave advice to
the Olympians that helped them win the battle.
Epimetheus
_____________________
because he was totally
ineffective as a Titan, and Zeus did not see him as a
threat, and
Atlas
__________________
because Zeus had another
punishment in mind for him. He had to hold the
world up on his shoulders for all of eternity.
Who are these Goddesses? How do you know?
Athena
Hera
Aphrodite
Artemis
Match each with his/her deeds.
A
____1.
Created Man
B
____2.
Opened a box full of suffering
E
____3.
Made the labyrinth of Minos
A
____4.
Stole Fire from Zeus
C
____5.
Killed Medusa
D
____6.
Slayed the Nemean Lion
D
____7.
Captured Cerberus from the gates of
the Underworld
F
_____8.
Got the Golden Fleece in order to
become king
B
_____9.
Was made to punish man
G
_____10.
Killed the Minotaur
A
_____11.
Had his liver eaten by an eagle
every day
A.Prometheus
B.Pandora
C.Perseus
D.Hercules
E. Daedalus
F. Jason
G. Theseus
Fill in the blanks.
Leto
When ___________
was pregnant by Zeus, that made
Hera
____________
mad. She told all lands not to allow
Leto
_____ to give birth there, but she finally finds an
island that will take her in. She gives birth to twins.
Artemis
___________
came out first, and immediately turned
Apollo
around to help midwife her brother, ____________.
Artemis
___________
asks for 6 wishes from her father, Zeus,
virginity
bow
including eternal ________________,
and a ________
for hunting. No man wants to accidently see her
__________,
naked
because she’ll turn you into a stag, or a
mountain or a girl.
And these Gods?
Apollo
Hephaestus
Hermes
Zeus
Dionysus
Poseidon
Match the best answers. A. Half horse, half man
B. A Gorgon who can turn men to stone
with just one look into her eyes.
H
_____1.
Furies (Erinyes)
C. Half snake, half woman. The mother
D
_____2. Harpies
of monsters.
G
_____3.
Hydra
D. Half bird, half women, they attack,
B
_____4.
Medusa
confiscate, and befoul
E
E. Head of a bull, body of a man.
_____5.
Minotaur
Wanders in the labyrinth at Crete
C
_____6.
Echidna
F. Three women who spin the yarn of
A
_____7.
Centaur
life, pick a place and then cut it (thus
F
_____8. Fates
ending your life)
G. Many headed creature. Cut of a
head? Two more grow back.
H. Ancient deities who hear complaints
and then relentlessly hound guilty
parties.
Python lived in “the belly button of the Earth (or
Gaia). He protected this sacred spot. Gaia
________sent a
Python
serpent, __________,
after Leto
________as punishment
for her affair with Zeus. When he was four days old,
Apollo
____________
chased Python into his sacred cave
and killed it. He then took over the cave and the
Oracle there, making it his own. People from all over
Oracle
travelled to the ______________
at
Delphi
_______________
to hear prophecies from
Apollo
______________.
Due to other adventures, he’s also
the god of Sun, Music and Healing.
Who are these guys?
Jason
Atlas
Theseus
Perseus