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| Which myth is compared to Romeo & Juliet? |
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| Which myth explains how the mulberry tree's berries are red? |
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| What is the main story line in Pyramus and Thisbe? |
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| They live in Babylonia and communicated through a crack in the wall of their joint house. They loved each other.They snook out to mulberry tree and Thisbe arrived first and saw a bloody lioness so she left but left her scarf and the lioness chewed on it. Pyramus saw the bloody scarf and lioness and stabbed himself. Then Thisbe stabbed herself and they were buried together. |
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| What is the main story line in Baucis and Philemon? |
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| Old married couple who let Zeus and Hermes stay in their house and served them wine and saw that it never ran out so they knew they were gods and were going to kill bird to feed them but the bird went to Zeus. Zeus took them to Mt. and destroyed the town. They wished to be together forever and once one dies, the other dies. Became intertwined trees |
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| Which myth explained kindness toward the gods? |
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| How did Bellerophon ride the Pegasus? |
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| What happened between Bellerophon and a specific woman? |
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| She tried to seduce him but he died and she called for rape but the gods were on his side |
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| What is the main story line of Bellerophon and Pegasus? |
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| He rode Pegasus and was exiled but he was protected by gods and a king gave his youngest daughter to him. He ran up Mt. Olympius and Zeus made Pegasus reer back and Bellerophon fall off and become blind and the Pegasus went up the Mt. |
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| Who took Persephone from Demeter? |
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| What did Persephone eat that sealed her fate? |
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| What is the main story line of Demeter and Persephone? |
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| Persephone was picking a flower and a hole opens up and Hades takes her to the Underworld. Hades loves her and she eats some Pomegranate seeds. Demeter is depressed and a deal is made where she stays 6 months with Demeter and 6 with Hades |
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| What natural event does Demeter and Persephone explain? |
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| What curse did Echo have? |
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| Could not start conversations and could only repeat things |
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| What happened to Narcissus? |
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| He fell in love with his reflection and starved to death |
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| What is the main story line of Echo and Narcissus? |
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| Narcissus would not talk to Echo so Echo went to mts. and turned to stone. Narcissus loved no one and then saw his reflection and fell in love with it and starved to death |
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| What is the main story line of Glaucus and Scylla? |
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| Glaucus was a fisherman and saw that the fish he caught would come back to life and hop out. He found out how they came back to life and used their source of life and became a merman and became a god. He loved Scylla but she did not like him so he went to Circe who loved him and Circe enchanted a river that scylla bathed in and she got 12 legs and 6 heads. Near sicilia or greece. |
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| What did Glaucus do to become a god? |
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| He ate a special herb that turned him into a merman |
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| What is the main story line of Sisyphus? |
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| He told people one of the gods' secrets and hades got him. He asked Hades to show him how the chains work so Hades put chains on himself and then Sisyphus ran away. He tells his wife not to bury his body. He dies. He tricks gods by saying his body was not buried so he goes back to earth and stays there. They make him push a boulder up a mt. and near the top it rolls back down |
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| What is the main story line of Daphne and the Laurel Wreath? |
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| Cupid shot Apollo with arrow of love and he fell in love with Daphne and he chases after her. Her father turns her into a laurel tree and Apollo puts the leaves on his head. |
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| What were the characteristics of Daphne? |
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| What is Demeter the goddess of? |
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| What is Persephone the goddess of? |
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| What is the main story line of Hera and Io? |
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Zeus fell in love with Io and hid her from Hera by turning her into a cow. Hera put the eyes of the protector on the peacock
Hera asks for the cow and he gives it and protects it. Zeus sent Hermes to tell the being that was protecting 100 boreing stories and it falls asleep and he chops of its head. Hera then turns Io into a person and she runs to the Nile. |
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| What is the main story line of Jason and the Argonauts? |
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| If Jason got the golden fleece he would become the King of Volos. He travels and does many tasks with the assistance of Hercules and mainly Medea (sorceress). Medea loves him and later Jason falls in love with Creon. He dies next to ship from wood falling |
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| What is the main story line of Meleager and Atalanta? |
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| Meleager didnt pay dues so a boar was sent to attack and then Atalanta was a tom boy thing and hunts the boar. |
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| Zeus came as a golden shower and got his mom, Danae pregnant |
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| What is the main story line of Perceus? |
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| A king falls in love with his mom and the king tells Perceus to kill Medusa. He uses Hermes sword,Hades helm, and Danae's shield. He kills Medusa and her sisters look for him but he hides. He uses the head of Medusa to turn the king to stone and his grandpa was killed in olympics and Athena put the head in the shield |
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| Who was Phaethon's father? |
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| What was Phaethon's wish? |
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| To ride the chariot across the earth |
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| What natural thing does the myth of Phaethon explain? |
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| Formation of deserts and cold places |
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| What is the main story line fo Phaethon? |
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| Kids teased him so he asked Apollo if he was his father. Apollo gave him wish so he asked to ride the chariot but Apollo said it was too strong but he promised on the River Styx. So he lets him ride it but he lets go of reigns and it goes out of control getting too close to the earth in some places and too far in others. Zeus killed him and Apollo continued carrying sun. |
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| What does Epimitheus' name mean? |
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| Whose side did Prometheus and Epimitheus join? |
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| What is the main story line of Prometheus and Epimetheus? |
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| They were given the job of creating man and giving every living thing attributes. He gave everything good attributes but forgot man so he gave fire to man from a finnel stalk and gave man superiority. Zeus chains prometheus to a rock and has an eagle eat his liver every day until Hercules saves him |
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| What is the main story line in Pygmalion and Galatea? |
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| Pygmalion hated women and never wanted to get married and made a sculpture of a woman and fell in love with it and dressed it etc. He then asked Aphrodite at her feast to make him a woman like her but she made his statue come alive and he married her. |
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| What awesome rock song talks about Daedalus and Icarus in it? |
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| Carry on my wayward son by Kansas |
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| What is the main story line of Daedalus and Icarus? |
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| Daedalus was a craftsman and built a labyrinth with a minotaur in it. Perdix was just as smart and Athena turned him into a partridge. Daedalus and Icarus were trapped. Daedalus made wings of wax and feathers and told Icarus not to fly too low or high but he did not listen. He flew too high and fell in the ocean and dies.Perdix laughs |
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| What is the main story line of Hercules? |
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| He was born from Zeus and Alcmene. Hera hated him.He married megara and had children but Hera caused him to kill them all. He then married Deianira and she made a cloak for him with a love potion in it but is was actually poison and burned his skin and Hera took the spell off. He then completed 12 labors including killing hydra and ceberus, and washing a stable |
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