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Mythology 5 6 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accept something without protest | acquiesce |
| original, serves as model | prototype |
| embarrassed due to failure or disappointment | chagrined |
| inadvertently | accidentally |
| futility | having no useless result, pointless |
| paltry | lacking in importance |
| somber | gloomy, depressing |
| sustenance | nourishment, supporting |
| arbiter | one who rules |
| atonement | making amends for injury or wrongs |
| what was asgard like? | home of the norse gods, and depressing |
| what was the norse outlook on good and evil/ | good is fighting the forces of evil but they know one day they will be defeated |
| what was the choice the norse hero made? | death and defeat instead of yielding to evil |
| what was the central theme of the norse mythology? | heroic standards |
| what is the story of signy and sigmund | signy's husband, sigmund chained her father and siblings to be eaten by wolves. signy later killed sigmund with their son sinfiotli. then signy kills herself |
| who does singurd rescue? | Bryhild from the ring of fire |
| how does sigurd die? | Gunnars younger brother kills im in his sleep |
| How did Balder die? | Stabbed by mistletoe because it was the only thing that has sworn not to protect him. (guided by Loki) |
| Describe Odin and his duties | Odin is the sky father and postpones dooms day as long as he can |
| who were the valkyries | women who took dead bodies to Valhalla |
| Which days of the week were named after norse gods? | Tuesday- Tyr, Wednesday- Odin, Thursday- Thor, Friday- Freya or Frigga |
| Who ruled the kingdom of death | Hela |
| How did Odin and his brothers make the world? | Killed Ymir (Odin's granddad) and made earth and sky from his body, the sea from his blood, and heavens from his skull |
| Who was the thunder-god | Thor |
| Who was Odin's wife | Frigga |
| Who was Tyr | God of war |
| Who was the goddess of love and beauty | Freya |
| What was Midgard | Space to live within the great walls the gods built |
| What did that Norsemen believe would happen after Odin and the other gods were defeated by evil | there would be a new heaven and new earth |
| what, according to Hamilton, were the Norsemen's two characteristics | Heroism, common sense |
| Name two members of the house of Atreus | Agamemnon, Menelaus, lytemnestra, Iphigenia, Ortestes, Electra, Tantalus |
| Who brought all of the misfortunes on the house of Atreus? | Tantalus |
| What was the evil deed Tantalus committed | killed his only son, Pelops, and fed him to the gods |
| What punishment did Tantalus receive for his deed? | Sent him to a pool in the underworld and when he would reach for water it would drain away and if he reached for food it was always to far to reach |
| What did Tantals's daughter, Niobe, do, and how was she punished | said people should worship her instead of Leto and Apollo and Artemis shot all of Niobe's children in front of her then she was turned to stone |
| Why had Agamemnon killed his daughter Iphigenia? | As a sacrifice so the ships would sail safely to Troy |
| How did Agamemnon die? | killed by his wife because he scar |
| accept something without protest | acquiesce |
| original, serves as model | prototype |
| embarrassed due to failure or disappointment | chagrined |
| inadvertently | accidentally |
| futility | having no useless result, pointless |
| paltry | lacking in importance |
| somber | gloomy, depressing |
| sustenance | nourishment, supporting |
| arbiter | one who rules |
| atonement | making amends for injury or wrongs |
| what was asgard like? | home of the norse gods, and depressing |
| what was the norse outlook on good and evil/ | good is fighting the forces of evil but they know one day they will be defeated |
| what was the choice the norse hero made? | death and defeat instead of yielding to evil |
| what was the central theme of the norse mythology? | heroic standards |
| what is the story of signy and sigmund | signy's husband, sigmund chained her father and siblings to be eaten by wolves. signy later killed sigmund with their son sinfiotli. then signy kills herself |
| who does singurd rescue? | Bryhild from the ring of fire |
| how does sigurd die? | Gunnars younger brother kills im in his sleep |
| How did Balder die? | Stabbed by mistletoe because it was the only thing that has sworn not to protect him. (guided by Loki) |
| Describe Odin and his duties | Odin is the sky father and postpones dooms day as long as he can |
| who were the valkyries | women who took dead bodies to Valhalla |
| Which days of the week were named after norse gods? | Tuesday- Tyr, Wednesday- Odin, Thursday- Thor, Friday- Freya or Frigga |
| Who ruled the kingdom of death | Hela |
| How did Odin and his brothers make the world? | Killed Ymir (Odin's granddad) and made earth and sky from his body, the sea from his blood, and heavens from his skull |
| Who was the thunder-god | Thor |
| Who was Odin's wife | Frigga |
| Who was Tyr | God of war |
| Who was the goddess of love and beauty | Freya |
| What was Midgard | Space to live within the great walls the gods built |
| What did that Norsemen believe would happen after Odin and the other gods were defeated by evil | there would be a new heaven and new earth |
| what, according to Hamilton, were the Norsemen's two characteristics | Heroism, common sense |
| Name two members of the house of Atreus | Agamemnon, Menelaus, lytemnestra, Iphigenia, Ortestes, Electra, Tantalus |
| Who brought all of the misfortunes on the house of Atreus? | Tantalus |
| What was the evil deed Tantalus committed | killed his only son, Pelops, and fed him to the gods |
| What punishment did Tantalus receive for his deed? | Sent him to a pool in the underworld and when he would reach for water it would drain away and if he reached for food it was always to far to reach |
| What did Tantals's daughter, Niobe, do, and how was she punished | said people should worship her instead of Leto and Apollo and Artemis shot all of Niobe's children in front of her then she was turned to stone |
| Why had Agamemnon killed his daughter Iphigenia? | As a sacrifice so the ships would sail safely to Troy |
| How did Agamemnon die? | killed by his wife because he sacrificed their daughter |
| What happened to Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegistus | Orestus killed them both for killing his father |
| What one good thing resulted from Orestes's and repentance? | the curse of the house of atreus was ended |
| What happened to Cadmus and Harmonia | Cadmus and Harmonia were turned into serpents to show that the innocent were punished like the guilty |
| what wrongs did Oedipus commit? | Married his mother and killed his father |
| Did he commit this crime knowingly? | No, Fate vs. Free will |
| What punishment sis Oedipus inflict upon himself | Oedipus blinded himself as punishment |
| Why was Antigone killed? | she buried her brother when she was told not to |
| How did THeseus, King of Athens, help Adrastus and the relatives of the chieftains who fought against thebes | Theseus went back to the city to get the dead to bury them to help Adrastus |
| Why was Cecrops noted? | the only half human and is given credit for athena becoming the patron of Athens |
| How did Philomela let Procne now of Tereus evil deeds | Philomela weaved a tapestry and gave it to Procne to let her know of her husbands wrong doing |
| what happened to Procne and Philomela? | Prochne and Philomela turned into a nightingale and a swallow. Philomela turned into a swallow because she did not have a tongue |
| How did Cephalus test Procris's devotion to him | Cephalus went into deep disguise and tried to get Procris's to become unfaithful to test her devotion |
| How were Creuse and Ion reunited? | Ion went to a sanctuary and her son Creusa was the priest there |
| What wish did Bacchus grant to Midas, and what was the result | The wsih that whatever he touched turned to gold. Midas couldn't eat anything so he lost his wish |
| Why was Aesculapius honored? | he healed many people even bringing someone back from the dead |
| What wrong did the Danaids do and what was their punishment? | killed there husbands so they were sent to the underworld and have to fill leaking jars with water and watch them leak empty |
| What was Arachne's misdeed and what was her punishment? | Minerva beat her with her shuttle so she then killed herself. Arachne was turned into a spider and given Minerva's weaving skills |
| Which human lover of Zeus' was changed into the Great Bear and placed in the sky? | Callisto |
| Why was the centaur Chiron known? | Know for his goodness and wisdom |
| Why were the Myrmidons created? | Created from ants by Zeus and reign of Achille's grandfather Aeacus. Went into war with Achilles |
| Which great hunter was placed in the sky as a constellation | Orion |
| Who were the Pleiades | 7 daughters of Atlas. Zeus placed then in heaven as stars to hide from Zeus |
| What sis Sisyphus do, and why was he punished? | king of cornith and betrayed Zeus then sent to the underworld to roll a rock uphill forever |
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