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PJ GGods ch 16-18
Percy Jackson's Greek Gods ch 16-18
Question | Answer |
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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 |