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PJ GGods ch 16-18
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods ch 16-18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Golden hinds | pull Artemis’ chariot |
| Britomartis | Lady of Nets |
| Ceryneian Hind | a free golden hind sacred to Artemis |
| Kalydonian Pig | wild boar sent to torment Kalydonia because they didn’t sacrifice to Artemis |
| Actaeon | saw Artemis bathing. She turned him into a deer and his own dogs tore him apart |
| Sipriotes | saw Artemis bathing. She turned him into a girl and let him join her hunt |
| Kallisto | Zeus appeared as Artemis to get close and the real Artemis turned her into a bear |
| Orion | male hunter killed by a scorpion and made into a constellation |
| Hippolytus | joined Artemis’ hunt, killed by his father, resurrected by Asklepios |
| Asklepios | child of Apollo, only person to heal death, killed by Zeus |
| Hermes | god of anything and anyone connected to roads |
| Maia | Hermes’ mother, daughter of Atlas |
| lyre | stringed instrument Hermes made from a tortoise shell |
| Battus | told Apollo that Hermes stole the cattle, turned to stone |
| syrinx | double flute created by Hermes |
| Hermes’ magic gifts | herald's staff, flying sandals, sword, ability to tell future with dice |
| caduceus | herald’s staff twined with two living snakes, can wake people or put them to sleep |
| Io | girlfriend of Zeus, turned into a cow and tormented by Hera |
| Argus | giant with 100 eyes |
| Semele | Dionysus’ mother |
| Bacchus | Roman name “the noisy one” |
| Ino | Dionysus’ aunt, Hera drove mad so she boiled her younger son alive, then jumped off a cliff |
| Athamas | Dionysus’ uncle, Hera drove mad so he thought his son was a deer and killed him |
| Dionysus | Greek name, means “god from Nysa” |
| Ampelos | Dionysus’ satyr friend, died exploring a grape vine, his blood formed grapes |
| bacchae | people who worshipped Dionysus by getting drunk |
| King Lycurgus | whipped Dionysus’ followers, killing his foster mom; killed his own son in an act of madness |
| maenads | hard core followers of Dionysus that had super strength |
| thyrsus | scepter encircled in grapevines and topped with a pine cone |
| King Pentheus | spied on a bacchae party and was torn to pieces by Dionysus’ followers, including his mother |
| Ariadne | helped Theseus escape the labyrinth, then married Dionysus |